ESPN with big racial fail.

This headline is offensive but even more disturbing is the guy plays in one losing game and now the Media bloodletting begins and Lin is the sole person to blame, last I knew their were a few other players on the team. The Media firestorm that pushed him to fame so quickly is now ready to extinguish this fame with even more hast. Sad
 
tm3308 said:
Right, because multi-billion dollar companies like ESPN publish racial slurs in their headlines all the time? You'd be surprised at what slips your mind when writing a headline. I've had a couple this year that I wish I could have changed. I highly doubt this was done with the intent of insulting Lin.
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Is that really what you thought I meant? No I don't think it is a conspiracy on the part of ESPN but I do believe that whoever wrote that knew exactly what they were doing. If you unintentionally published something similar I'd tell you that you're stupid.
 
bighawkeyedaddy said:
It's okay, that word isn't racist anymore. He's bringing it back.
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With all due respect, every ethnicity has slag, derogatory discriptive terms. While I think it is chuckle worthy, there is no place for it in mainstream media. It is insensitive to the underlying group and there are editors for these reasons. If it was an unintended mistake then they should be reprimanded accordingly, but if it was intentional, the punishment needs to be more harsh as ESPN will probably get a lot of heat. While some of us have thick skins, many do not.
 
TecmoSuperHawk said:
I guess unless you think people are malicious then this was probably an honest mistake. It's not like chink in the armor is not a commonly used phrase.
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When you get to the level of ESPN (yes, even ESPN with its pitifully low standards) there is no excuse for this. This was not an honest mistake. This was someone trying to be clever. Someone needs to be fired, and likely will be.
 
Other said:
Is that really what you thought I meant? No I don't think it is a conspiracy on the part of ESPN but I do believe that whoever wrote that knew exactly what they were doing. If you unintentionally published something similar I'd tell you that you're stupid.
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Or, like someone mentioned, you're an intern from a part of the country (the Midwest, for example) that doesn't have much ethnic diversity. "Chink in the armor" is a VERY common phrase. It's not hard to see how it could have been unintentional.
 
tweeterhawk said:
When you get to the level of ESPN (yes, even ESPN with its pitifully low standards) there is no excuse for this. This was not an honest mistake. This was someone trying to be clever. Someone needs to be fired, and likely will be.
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They'll get fired, but that doesn't make it intentional. People get fired for honest mistakes every day.
 
tweeterhawk said:
When you get to the level of ESPN (yes, even ESPN with its pitifully low standards) there is no excuse for this. This was not an honest mistake. This was someone trying to be clever. Someone needs to be fired, and likely will be.
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If he was trying a play on words, a headline using "Lin" would have been used, like everyone else is doing. I do believe it was an honest mistake to use a commonly used phrase to describe a situation that indicates Lin is not invincible and not a racial slur.

Sadly nobody can make mistakes anymore without their integrity being called into question and of course the person must be fired immediately.
 
tm3308 said:
Or, like someone mentioned, you're an intern from a part of the country (the Midwest, for example) that doesn't have much ethnic diversity. "Chink in the armor" is a VERY common phrase. It's not hard to see how it could have been unintentional.
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Holy Hell are you serious? I'd be surprised if everyone on this board didn't know that chink was a racial slur by the time they were 10-12 years old. So unless espn has 8 year olds writing stories I'm not buying the unintentional bit.
 
hawkfan33 said:
Many people don't think twice about saying the n -word, does that mean its ok?
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Not the same thing at all.

The n-word doesn't have an alternative usage. When used it has a singular meaning, so the chance of using it benignly is nill. The speaker would have only one possible intention.
 
hawkfan33 said:
Many people don't think twice about saying the n -word, does that mean its ok?
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Did I say it was okay? I said I doubt it was intentional.

Other said:
Holy Hell are you serious? I'd be surprised if everyone on this board didn't know that chink was a racial slur by the time they were 10-12 years old. So unless espn has 8 year olds writing stories I'm not buying the unintentional bit.
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It's the lack of exposure that matters. But hell, most of the people I know wouldn't have that be what crosses their mind when they hear that phrase. The phrase was perfect for just about any other player in the league. He's been invincible for the past two weeks. Whoever wrote it should be fired, as well as the editor(s) who passed it along. But that doesn't make it intentional.
 
tm3308 said:
Or, like someone mentioned, you're an intern from a part of the country (the Midwest, for example) that doesn't have much ethnic diversity. "Chink in the armor" is a VERY common phrase. It's not hard to see how it could have been unintentional.
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Not buying it. Even everyone from the midwest (or whatever rural/ non diverse area you want to claim) knows that this is the most common derogatory term used for Asians.

It was done to be clever and the person(s) should be fired.
 
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