anybody know what this was about?

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and there's no way the dude writing that didn't know what he was writing - he probably had a smirk on his face while writing it.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
and there's no way the dude writing that didn't know what he was writing - he probably had a smirk on his face while writing it.
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I feel bad for the editor. Probably in a hurry and didn't even recognize it. It took me a second actually.
 
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Now anchor Max Bretos is suspended. What the hell is going on up there?

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More PC bull****. I would be willing to bet it was an honest mistake.

It's twice as funny tho since we've had all the Lin-sane puns over the last week.
 
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YorkVol said:
Unless you are Chinese.
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I like CRACKERs with my soup. Does that make me a racist?

I clean my floors with Spic and Span. Does that make me a racist?

I don't like Special Dark chocolate because it's bitter. Does that make me a racist?

(Answer is "no" to all those questions).

Like I said, we're a little too culture-sensitive because a word out of context does not a racist make. In context, yeah.
 
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Brian McCat said:
I like CRACKERs with my soup. Does that make me a racist?

I clean my floors with Spic and Span. Does that make me a racist?

I don't like Special Dark chocolate because it's bitter. Does that make me a racist?

(Answer is "no" to all those questions).

Like I said, we're a little too culture-sensitive because a word out of context does not a racist make. In context, yeah.
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And since the context was a player named Lin, it was offensive.
 
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Brian McCat said:
I like CRACKERs with my soup. Does that make me a racist?

I clean my floors with Spic and Span. Does that make me a racist?

I don't like Special Dark chocolate because it's bitter. Does that make me a racist?

(Answer is "no" to all those questions).

Like I said, we're a little too culture-sensitive because a word out of context does not a racist make. In context, yeah.
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Racist IMO.
 
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YorkVol said:
And since the context was a player named Lin, it was offensive.
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There's a difference between offensive, racist, and the author's intent. We'll never really know if it was intentional or not- my point is that it probably wasn't, but was an unfortunate choice of words.
 
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Tbh, I didnt notice it until a 3rd or 4th glance. Hopefully editor made a mistake and didnt do it to be an a$$.
 
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mchandl7 said:
SNL's opening last night made fun of this before it happened.
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That opening was excellent.

The website thing was racist as hell. There's no way the guy who came up with it didn't make the connection. That is THE derogatory term used for Asians. Bretos shouldn't have been suspended, it really looks like he was just reading from the teleprompter. ESPN damage control arbitrarily ruining someone's career right there.
 
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Bjorn_Yesterday said:
That opening was excellent.

The website thing was racist as hell. There's no way the guy who came up with it didn't make the connection. That is THE derogatory term used for Asians. Bretos shouldn't have been suspended, it really looks like he was just reading from the teleprompter. ESPN damage control arbitrarily ruining someone's career right there.
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At least from what Dan Patrick has said on his radio show, the anchors usually write their own teleprompter copy.
 
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mchandl7 said:
At least from what Dan Patrick has said on his radio show, the anchors usually write their own teleprompter copy.
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It's hard to imagine a guy with an Asian wife doing it intentionally. It really seems like an honest mistake with him. Heck, maybe the website thing was an honest mistake. To me it just seems like one of those no brainer words that you wouldn't use in relation to Asian people.
 
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What's funny about the hole deal is the guy that was fired is married to an Asian .
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I could see it as an accident. When I was in HS I had a friend that when he first moved to my school told us that his nickname was monkey. So we called him monkey, until one day a teacher heard a group of white students calling the new black kid monkey. We're told to stop as it was a racially insensitive slur.
The point being racial slurs for one generation don't necessarily get passed to the next who might not even know of them. Some have even entered the lexicon as normal phrases that people use all the time without realizing the original meaning.
I don't know if that is what happened here, but the way the media jumped on the whole "lin-sanity" thing and ran with increasingly more outrageous headlines it was only a matter of time before they went to far.
 
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