Shao-Lin Basketball
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- uuuuuu0
You are naive, its the same as throwing the N word into a headline. I don't get how ESPN gets away with this then blames the reporters who were probably told to... its done for the attention anyway.
Sorry its nothing personal but it reminds me of a discussion I had around here a few years ago with someone about Pakistan and they kept referring to Pakistanis as "pakis" and then claimed they had zero clue its a racist slur. Chink... its racist, now you know.
This also reminds me of the guy who threw a banana on the ice while a black player was taking a penalty shot in the NHL recently. He claimed he didn't realize it was a racist gesture and had bought the banana at the standium. Where can you buy a fucking banana in a hockey stadium? He just randomly threw it during the black guy's penalty shot? He was let off too on the hate crime part and given a 'trespassing' charge or something.
Say i"m over reacting but all of these things are intentionally desensitize us to racism, we begin to be apologists for overt bigotry.
- I agree, I only knew that word as a slang before this. I'm not defending it at all.fooler
- sorry, not fully directed at your comment, just sayinguuuuuu
- well I did tell you to call me naivefooler
- hehehuuuuuu
- I'm with uuuuuuu!Glitterati_Duane
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Good for uuuuuuukit2 - we are not being desensitized by any means. People used to kill you for the color of your skin.epigraph
- BattleAxe0
Knicks beat the defending Champion Dallas Mavericks , what the hell is going on out there in NYC
- _niko0
If they played "kung -fu fighting" over the PA in MSG would it be racist?
It's a standard that they play in most arenas, should they stop because of PC bullshit?
- ThePublics0
Is Paki a racist slur? I never understood how that one is inherently racist, same with "Japs".
Seems more like an abbreviation to me. Like "Yanks" or "Canucks" or "Brit" or "Aussie".
- Do people from Pakistan or Japan use those phrases to describe themselves? .. basically the first two have a history of being used as pejorative terms.lukus_W2
- history of being used as pejorative terms.lukus_W2
- yank and canuck also have a history of being used as pejorative terms.ThePublics
- and yanks do not call themselves yanks.ThePublics
- ergot, the term "yank" is racist, although, as with "paki" neither are races.ThePublics
- right there is tonnes of historical connotation with 'jap' and 'paki'... racist contexts not affectionate short namesuuuuuu
- yank is not affectionateThePublics
- i know its derogatory. a real yankee would be offended but a lot of that significance is irrelevant these daysuuuuuu
- shut up, crackers.CanHasQBN
- uuuuuu0
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pa…
"(UK, Canada, Australian, offensive, racial slur) A Pakistani, or, more generally and incorrectly used, a person who is perceived to be from South Asian or the Indian Subcontinent origin which is still considered offensive."
I've grown up around enough racists to realize both 'paki' and 'jap' are derogatory racist slurs.
- ThePublics0
what about the word "niggardly", is that racist?
- pango0
it's no more racist than this thread title.
oh btw.
"A chink in somebody's armour: If someone or something which seems to be strong has a chink in their armour, they have a small fault which may cause them problems."- the word 'chink' is the most racist name possible for an asian person, i don't see the comparison with the thread title.uuuuuu
- ...title.uuuuuu
- i'm asian... chink on the offensive scale 1-10. it's right at 1. And shao-lin basketball is right at 2 for me...pango
- 'shaolin' is a cool and interesting part of asian culture, nothing wrong thereuuuuuu
- that ESPN writer's gotta do better than that. oh wait... he got fired. lolpango
- I'm white and if I called you a 'chink' you better be offended because it probably means I'm a racist asshole.uuuuuu
- saying shao-lin basketball is like saying all asian doing kong-fu when playing basketball.pango
- no its not you're just trying to stretch it... chink is overtly racist. comparison is null.uuuuuu
- really? chink doesn't even do a tickle to me. maybe a little bit. i mean what does it mean? chinese?pango
- 'chink' is the asian equivalent to 'nigger'. it's as simple as that.uuuuuu
- not too many black people go "what does nigger even mean? Thats not offensive"uuuuuu
- ya you guys need to do better than that.pango
- cuz saying nigger is offensive. but "chink" i don't feel a tickle!pango
- ya more offensive calling chinese railroad worker and kung pow and what not.pango
- obviously you didn't grow up around people who would call you a chink to your face.uuuuuu
- i've had people say chink in my face. but they really gotta do better than that.pango
- wow pango chill. It's a play on shaolin soccer. did you protest that movie too?_niko
- no. its only "2" on the offensive scale.lolpango
- lol_niko
- bliznutty0
Chink of the Day
- HijoDMaite0
this berong here
- ukit20
What uuuuuu said above
It's definitely racist and although I can't get that worked up about it, it's annoying that the bar for offensiveness/racial stereotyping is so much higher for Asians than it is for instance blacks or Jews
- oey0
Black = color
Jew = Somebody that follows Judaism, religion
Jewish = Jew likePeople from Isrrael speak a bit frrench like and say "r" instead of "h"
Not all...But some i know say: "Rallo" insteaf of "Hallo"
- oey0
The maths video could be funnier if it wasn't for that stupid voice.
Or does he really speaks like that?
I'm asking.- no, he is from California. zero accent.HijoDMaite
- He speaks surfer language then...oey
- randommail0
Chink In The Armor?
So obvious it was done intentionally to get attention.
What sort of shitty headline is that? What does Lin or the Knicks have to do with armor?
Fuck you ESPN.
- ukit20
Hard to say it was intentional. Probably just a dumb mistake.
- oey0
When I first saw the thread I thought it was about a movie in the same style as "Shaolin Soccer".
Besides, if he's from Taiwan, then that Shaolin thing is even more provocative because of the high tensioned political relations between those two countries.
It shows a lot of ignorance and follows the common stereotype that all Asians look the same or are all the same thing.It's only good basketball, in this case from an American with Taiwanese roots.