The term ‘chink’ has been a derogatory term for a long long time. Its essentially fallen out of use as anything but a derogatory term. The only reason they used the term is because it referenced an Asian.
Nobody is controlling me. I dislike racism regardless of who it originates from. That you make excuses and attempt to twist out of your obvious racism just speaks to your lack of integrity.
Then let’s keep cutting the richness of the English language until there is nothing left of it.
That should please everybody.
FO on the racism charge. I don’t care.
Toady.
Maybe it was wrong but we’ve always used slang terms to refer to various ethic groups. We definitely used the term “Jap” during WWII. I’ve used quite a few terms myself not with hate but just because I can and want to, but usually not in public.
The journalist was trying to make a cute pun. Lighten up.
I’ve used chink fairly often in my life, but never about Chinese. If someone hadn’t pointed out the ‘offensiveness’ of the headline before I saw it, I wouldn’t have thought twice about it.
I normally think about chink as a gap in the armor, or like this:
http://www.mountainhomebuildingproducts.com/Chinking-Log-Home-Permachink-Log-Jam-TripleStretch/
I don’t want to think about what some folks would say ‘chinking a log’ means...