Mmmmm....chinks are tasty.
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?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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Part kraut, part cheese eating surrender monkey, and all yankee, brownsfan.
I’m sorry, but I’ve been laughing very, very hard at it.
Since they had to contort themselves into a logical pretzel in order to fire Limbaugh for supposed “racism” they now can’t let the smallest thing pass, lest they be called out as hypocrites.
Did Wen Ho Lee ever live up to his agreement to help the investigators find the tapes he "lost?"
With the Asian branch of the Victims of America industry screaming "RACISTS" "BIGOTS" coast-to-coast the Administration agreed to let Lee go but there was that condition that Lee would cooperate, I recall an article about Att Gen. Reno specifying the condition
-- it's been a few years but the last time I searched if I recall correctly I found a couple of articles reporting that the Lee still had not remembered where he put the tapes after sending the FBI searching through not a few garbage dumps.
He should have slipped and made a slur about Lin's being a Christian.
Then no one in the media would give a rip, because we're fair game for everyone.
Mmmmm....chinks are tasty.
We have become a nation of overwrought pansies and borg.
The arbiter of all things offensive is the media. So by extension they also become the jury of who will be successful. Isn't this the definition of discrimination?
good Lord. Get a tougher skin....not everything is about you (the writer of the article not my beloved Freepers). It seems that using words is no longer allowed.... one must watch out for the proper phrases
I for one think it is pretty funny. The funny part is not that obvious. The ‘chink’ part is nothing to do with what I found funny.
The funny part is how clueless ESPN is. They have pretty much ruined sports by putting a price tag on every aspect of competition. ESPN has become a sports dictatorship. I hope they get their ass sued for 5 Billion dollars.
Although it has been demonstrated that one can be fired for using the word "niggardly" appropriately, in context.
I’d bet that only a minority of Americans even know that “chink” is an uncomplimentary name for Chinese-Americans. A lot of overreaction to this, and “chink in the armor” is a phrase the origin of which had nothing to do with the Chinese people.