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!
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...
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.
I guess I had always heard the term as a “kink in the armor”, not chink. But the term chink actually meant an opening or weak point in a suit of armor, so chink in the armor is actually the correct term.
Similar to the way people say “butt naked”, when the term is actually “buck naked”.