Posted on 02/23/2012 11:02:56 AM PST by presidio9
The phrase “a chink in the armor” goes all the way back to medeval times and never had anything to do with Chinese people or Asians in general is taking political correctness to an absurd level. The Democratic PC police are at it again and no conservative worth his/her salt should pander to this BS!
So what does one now call the material used to fill the space between the logs of the walls of a cabin?
Man, where’s the barf alert?
Not advocating the use of ANY hurtful racial epithets, but it sounds to me like Miss Fei skipped "Social Studies" in high school. Too bad we don't require kids to learn about US history any more.
Exactly. Not that the liberal media would even had an editorial slant...
The “victim” of this phrase — Jeremy Lin does not even think about it and is over it, and has in fact PUBLICLY STATED that he has forgiven the man.
Why the heck do these people keep bringing it up for?
It looks like “offended” people will not be happy until the writer gets marked with a scarlet letter and then guillotined.
True, so that makes it a racial pun. In a post-racial world, that's all it would be... a pun. It should be laughed off.
Of course the phrase has been around a long time. So has the word "chink" as what has come to be an unacceptable reference to someone of Asian-American origins. Let's not pretend that a headline that says, "Obama Criticized for Niggardly Approach to Funding" would not cause riots in the streets.
There can be no question that the headline intentionally contained a racial epithet towards Lin. Apparently Asians are like Caucasian Christians - in a an era of political correctness, one of the last accepted targets of overt racism.
As we whites become less and less the evil majority (well at least, no longer the majority) can we pretty please get others to stop calling us hillbillies, clod hoppers, red necks, trailer trash, honkies, yokels, bumpkins, mics, wops, . . . ?
Wot? No? Well, OK.
The liberal media are more slanted than ever. But such a discussion might lead us down a slippery slope...
Somehow, being called a “cracker” or a “honky” just doesn’t have much “sting”...
Probably the same with the Asians.
“Oh, you make fun of me by associating me with some of the hardest working, successful people in the world? Oh, I greatly offended!”
Does my first thought when reading that line mean that I am NOT a racist, or that I am because I didn’t take it that way?
“A chink in one’s armor refers to a weakness, like a crack or gap in a suit of armor, that would make it simpler for an enemy to harm an opponent.”
Notice that none of the 'rightously indignant' hand-wringers ever mention what Jeremy Lin named his own blog - CHINKBALLER
These people need to get over themselves. I will not submit to white guilt. I nor my father, grandfather, great- grandfather, great-great-grandfather had anything to do with slavery, importing coolies or mexicans.
Grow up people.
Anyone so insecure and thin-skinned about their own ethnicity should leave this melting pot of a country and return to the hellhole they came from. We’d all be better off for it. A sure sign of maturity is people that can laugh at themselves.
Oh - the DO "learn" about "History" - its just a much different, PC, revised version of history that has little similarity to actual events. In fact, I'm surprised that History textbooks and class registration materials don't include similar language to what TV programs have to scroll across the screen "not based on actual people or events. Any similarity to facts is purely coincidental".
I suspect it was an attempt to be clever by the editor.
The punishment far outweighed the crime. But, it is ESPN - Extra Sensitive Progressive Network.
It was inappropriate, but come on people, lighten up! Every ethnic group has some names meant to be slanderous, but those things have absolutely no power, unless you give it to them.
- signed:
Part kraut, part cheese eating surrender monkey, and all yankee, brownsfan.
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