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There are many ugly white and black players in the NBA, why aren't there any threads making fun of them, let alone one that is over 80 pages long?
Basketball Jesus wrote:There are many ugly white and black players in the NBA, why aren't there any threads making fun of them, let alone one that is over 80 pages long?
I feel bad: you missed some epic Sam Cassell threads. I think the best was the Photoshop of Sam Cassell as E.T. in the basket of the bicycle.
Getting back to the original point of the post: I don
2) There are quite a lot of Koreans who look like Ha. He may be ugly to some Asian eyes, but nothing that would single him out for special "ugly" status. Why isn't there a thread on an ugly white player?
3) In society, white people love to proclaim themselves to be better looking than all other races - see People's magazine. Asians, especially Asian men, are almost always shown as not particularly attractive. If there were equal amounts of positive exposure, then it wouldn't be such a big deal. But there isn't. Asians are still the butt of racist jokes and physical attacks, and there are many self-esteem issues, especially with Asians performing eye surgery to look more "Western". There are around 4 Asian people in the NBA, and one of them has already been singled out as "ugly".
4) Not all the people who post on the thread are racist, or intend to be. But that thread serves to propagate the notion that Asian people are uglier than white people. Some of the posters are no doubt ignorant or immature, and once they grow up, they might be inclined to ridicule Asians "just for laughs".
If you don't believe me about the scrub idolatry, ask Wizards fans about the Laron Profit Shrine (it was Profit, right)?
Or the Draw Things on Scott Skiles' Marvelous Forehead thread on the Bulls board.
In society, white people love to proclaim themselves to be better looking than all other races - see People's magazine. Asians, especially Asian men, are almost always shown as not particularly attractive.
Three decades ago, fresh from the refugee camp of Vietnam, I was first made acutely aware of my own Asian looks by a schoolyard bully in my junior high. He pulled the sides of his eyes back to make them look slanted and sang the ditty now made famous by Rosie O
Schadenfreude wrote:What you have to realize is that the Ha thread was a masterpiece because it combined two of the great loves of RealGM: scrub idolatry, and Photoshop. Ha was a scrawny, 7'3" kid with a lopsided grin, comically earnest demeanour, and he was never likely to see minutes. That's the perfect storm; regardless of what ethnic background sprang the mighty Ha, he was destined for RealGM greatness.
If you don't believe me about the scrub idolatry, ask Wizards fans about the Laron Profit Shrine (it was Profit, right)?
Or find the Sam Mitchell Photoshop thread on the Raptors board, where one very silly squatting double-fist pump spawned about 50 pages of nonsense.
Or the Draw Things on Scott Skiles' Marvelous Forehead thread on the Bulls board.
This is a board full of silly people; we like to do silly things, because we have nothing worthwhile to say. Ha just happened to be one of the myriad targets...except that a picture happened to be found with him in the unbelievably versatile "mouth open and pointing" pose. That's the only reason that thread reached epic status, not his race.
gamer4Life wrote:Racists these days will never openly admit they're racist... it's often under the cover of humour, and "otherness". If a black person kills a white person because he's white, even though he doesn't claim to be superior in race, does that mean he's not a racist?
gamer4Life wrote:Except he's been out of the NBA since 2006.
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/Asi ... y_0307.aspThree decades ago, fresh from the refugee camp of Vietnam, I was first made acutely aware of my own Asian looks by a schoolyard bully in my junior high. He pulled the sides of his eyes back to make them look slanted and sang the ditty now made famous by Rosie O
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:18 pmgamer4Life wrote:Except he's been out of the NBA since 2006.
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/Asi ... y_0307.aspThree decades ago, fresh from the refugee camp of Vietnam, I was first made acutely aware of my own Asian looks by a schoolyard bully in my junior high. He pulled the sides of his eyes back to make them look slanted and sang the ditty now made famous by Rosie O
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:18 pmI'd love to know how him being out of the league for 2 years makes it more "racist"...
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:30 pmchill out son, geez
Re: Racist Thread
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:30 amgamer4Life wrote:First it's making fun of his ethnic name, as well as the ethnic name of many Koreans. Second, it's making fun of his racialized appearance, the same way the appearance black people were made fun of long time ago. Society has adjusted to accept the appearance of black people, now it's time for them to accept the appearance of Asian people
Well I live in an area with lots of asians and I can safely say that none of them look anything remotely like Ha. I'm a quarter asian myself and I would be seriously offended if you said that I looked like this:
