racist jeremy lin espn headline poll

Asian American Journalists Association releases guidelines on Jeremy Lin media coverage

I seriously thought that would lead to The Onion

wtf society, we are doomed

also plz plz plz tell me no one has actually said "ME LOVE YOU LIN TIME", that is horrifying

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ny post had LIN-EPT today which was pretty good

DRIVING: This is part of the sport of basketball, but resist the temptation to refer to an "Asian who knows how to drive."

also wtf @ "YELLOW MAMBA"

really wtf that this had to be published

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i can imagine this being typed out accompanied every twenty second by a heavy sigh and a head shake.

I think there are a lot of ignorant people out there who don't realize assigning that color to East Asians is offensive. Any time some ol' rambler goes on about not caring if they're white, black, yellow or purple, etc.

And now this: I thought Taiwanese people considered themselves Chinese. They acknowledge that their land would be a part of China were it not for the communists. Cubans in Miami still consider themselves Cuban. Am I wrong?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Aja_album_cover.jpg

(And cool coincidence btw.)

also wtf @ "YELLOW MAMBA"

espn showed someone holding a YELLOW MAMBA sign in, like, lin's third game

great article, but yeah

i can imagine this being typed out accompanied every twenty second by a heavy sigh and a head shake.

― omar little, Friday, February 24, 2012 4:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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espn showed someone holding a YELLOW MAMBA sign in, like, lin's third game

I saw that on Google

I've been doing my usual "follow sport by reading standings charts/recaps after the fact" thing so I've missed a good chunk of the nonsense

age 15 racist jeremy lin

the funny thing about the YELLOW MAMBA thing is that it's a take off of kobe bryant calling himself BLACK MAMBA except whoever made the sign didn't realize that kobe was adopting the name of a real species and not calling himself "an african-american snake"

yes but people have since riffed on the "____ mamba" thing

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nD44Qz06pRE/Te8Or58tynI/AAAAAAAABD0/jArqCHPiPrA/s1600/the_white_mamba_brian_scalabrine_chicago_bulls_basketball-thumb-autox379-338752.jpg

fwiw i think i heard a piece on the radio where someone was in china interviewing ppl and his nickname there was 'yellow mamba' (but in whatever dialect they were speaking, obv, not english) and the reporter made a point of saying 'that is not considered an offensive term here'

of course it's bad/nagl here in the states but \(o_o)/

white mamba thing has been huge in chicago

Black people don't mind being called black, though there are alternate terms. White people aren't offended by their term unless they've got some real burr up their ass about something.

But yellow and red are not appropriate colors. I know it's confusing because some are okay and some aren't, but that's how it works.

Signed,

A White Person Who Feels He Has to Comment Incessantly About Race

And now this: I thought Taiwanese people considered themselves Chinese.

Some do, some don't. It's safer not to assume one way or the other. Officially Taiwan is the "Republic Of China" but not all Taiwanese people are comfortable being described as "Chinese".

great article, but yeah

i can imagine this being typed out accompanied every twenty second by a heavy sigh and a head shake.

― omar little, Friday, February 24, 2012 4:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― goole, Friday, February 24, 2012 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

that's how I read it, as I remembered seeing almost all of those in an actual headline or article over the past month

And now this: I thought Taiwanese people considered themselves Chinese. They acknowledge that their land would be a part of China were it not for the communists. Cubans in Miami still consider themselves Cuban. Am I wrong?

― pplains, Friday, February 24, 2012 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's a very, very complicated question!

I hate to be all "I had a roommate in college", but I had a roommate in college who was from Taiwan. He considered himself Chinese. It's not like they seceded.

and I know taiwanese-americans who consider themselves taiwanese. it's a very, very complicated question!

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/assets_c/2012/02/linsanitybenandjerrys1-thumb-520x681-64947.jpg

Ben & Jerry's launches 'Lin-Sanity' flavor, takes out fortune cookie ingredient

1) can't believe that's not simply a photoshop but a real thing
2) included fortune cookie ingredient 0_0 come on dudes

The hell is going on.

outside of the racism that seems like it would be pretty crappy ice cream

hmm honey vanilla and wafers. Now that's worth $3.95 for a quart.

Sounds like a health milkshake.

outside of the racism that seems like it would be pretty crappy ice cream

The racism really ties the flavor palette together though.

it's lychee honey vanilla

honey? crunchy things? omg what a disaster for ice cream.

why yogurt tho is my question

orientals love ice cream more than any race imo

haha they shoulda made it lactose free

haagen daaz is a thing in asia

or just fill the container w/ rice maybe

^ yes i was thinking that too! xp

xxp

i had rice pudding gelatto once and it was amazing

http://i.imgur.com/ThB3F.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/15Ac1.jpg

This guy is far from being the first Asian-American player in the NBA or in any sport. It's not like the country went wild with Godzilla references over Ichiro Suzuki. Why has Jeremy Lin (JEREMY!) somehow uncovered a festering national pile of Charlie Chan jokes?

http://i.imgur.com/54qEM.jpg

ice cream chocolate fondue?

http://i.imgur.com/QKA4s.jpg

ichiro is asian-american? xp