ESPN - "Chink In The Armor"

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ESPN - "Chink In The Armor" 

Post#1 » by rockynpolo » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:58 am

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And they even said it on tv:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESEGRwnQW4k[/youtube]

First it was Jason Whitlocks disgusting racialist comment regarding Jeremy Lin's peepee size and now ESPN is taking shots themselves with this headliner.
How racist is this?


source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... 08429.html
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Post#2 » by Bertrob » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

not very racist
its a coincidence
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Post#3 » by Dr Pepper » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

Now where's that infamous Team Spain pic...
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Post#4 » by Cultness » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

I chuckled.
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Post#5 » by Elden Payton » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:09 am

LMAO.

Horrendously coincidental I think.
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Post#6 » by LLJ » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:10 am

It's funny how Lin attracts more of this racial sh*t storm than Yao ever did. You'd think that Lin was even *more* foreign than Yao!
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Post#7 » by methdefense » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:11 am

Seems too much coincidence.
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You just came up with a theory, convinced yourself it was true, and then presented it as a fact. You have no proof whatsoever that this is what they did or what they are thinking.
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Post#8 » by DusterBuster » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:13 am

I won't lie, I lol'd. I blame Daniel Tosh.
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Post#9 » by Stunnaboy2K11 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:14 am

People are so sensitive
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Post#10 » by JF23 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:15 am

Knickerbocker Please!
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Post#11 » by Vertical Limit » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:15 am

Well that reporter from ESPN won't get punishment. He's reading everything the writers tell him to say. He will apologize but it's the writers that will be fired/face punishments.
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Post#12 » by retrospect24 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:16 am

They do this whenever they can. Remember the Beijing olympics?

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Post#13 » by Jan_Sobieski » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:17 am

Vertical Limit wrote:Well that reporter from ESPN won't get punishment. He's reading everything the writers tell him to say. He will apologize but it's the writers that will be fired/face punishments.

Damn writers lol
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Post#14 » by MVP Rose » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:17 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive


Right, because if the N word was headlining ESPN, it wouldn't be a big deal at all

I personally don't think it's a big deal, but I can understand why people take offense to it.
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Post#15 » by Jan_Sobieski » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

retrospect24 wrote:They do this whenever they can. Remember the 2008 olympics?

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Did anyone care then. ESPECIALLY when the Olympics were in a country called you know CHINA lol
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Post#16 » by Devilzsidewalk » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

wow, and it WAS a Lin story! I was already thinking when i saw the thread "cmon who cares unless it was on a Lin story" assuming that obviously it wouldn't be. ESPN is trolling.
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Post#17 » by methdefense » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive


I dunno about you but the only time I heard someone using the word "chink" is that someone actually purposely being racist. I didn't make a big deal out of it because that just normal in school atmosphere, but in professional level, it's too much.
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Post#18 » by Bertrob » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:20 am

MVP Rose wrote:
Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive


Right, because if the N word was headlining ESPN, it wouldn't be a big deal at all

I personally don't think it's a big deal, but I can understand why people take offense to it.


Right but "Chink in the armor" is an actual idiom
Its not like they can put a headline thats commonly means something else with the N word......


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Post#19 » by Gramatika5O » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:21 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive
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Post#20 » by prs » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:21 am

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