They must have known it was offensive but it's just about possible they didn't realise quite how offensive. Either way, i'm not sure any comparable 'joke' would have been made about many other minority groups.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
i honestly have no idea
i'd probably go with something like "knew it was racist, but thought it was funny anyway tee hee bad word"
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
someone should start a sock called dave tool, dave cool's evil twin
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
miss frogsbs valuable "but me and my friends use that word all the time, it's just funny" perspective
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
better done than said
xp
i think i should retract part of what i wrote; i don't follow sports but... lousy puns are common practice by these writers, right, so maybe he wasn't high on the lin meme orgy. maybe he just sucks, idk.
― Sébastien, Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
p obv (to me at least): "Headline writer thought they could sneak in a "funny" double entendre and no one would notice"
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
thing is, though, that ILX finds racial humor to be pretty funny sometimes
LONG DUK DONG
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
all ilxors look alike to dayo, smh
― bnw, Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
good joke, very good
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
I can think of plenty of ppl who'd make a "chink in the armour" joke knowing its double meaning, and defend it with "what? Dont you have a sense of humour cmon its FUNNY geddit? chink! ha ha"
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
...which is a depressing thing about living in aus tbh
any dave cool related sock i try to register gets never gets approved
― 99x (Lamp), Sunday, 19 February 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
this was obv idiotic but who knows, it's possible the double meaning didn't occur to whoever wrote the headline. it's whoever okayed this that is probably most culpable
also, we have a basketball board
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think this needs to be cabined tbh
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
racist jeremy lin
― i think you'd be cool to meet. i bet we'd have a lot to talk about (buzza), Sunday, 19 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
'chink in the armor' means a small vulnerability in an overwhelming opponent, which the knicks aren't exactly, so it makes zero sense to use it in another racially neutral context imo. considering how sometimes it seems every espn headline is some stupid puns (saints win a game on the road? 'the saints come marching in and beat the home team!' urlacher plays through an injury suffered in week 2? 'grin and bear it!' etc) this one is def someone trying to slip one by.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
no does make sense - in this context it just means "maybe he's not invincible after all". not that it couldn't also be a bad pun, it probably was
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it does make sense to use it in a way, but espn's tradition of being punny makes me figure it was used here for that purpose and may have not been used otherwise. i wonder how many people something like that has to go through, though.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
it certainly did make sense, and even if it was used unintentionally (i'm actually willing to believe this) it's still a fireable offense bcuz one of your jobs as a headline writer is to not write dumb things that unintentionally cause a major controversy and make your employer look terrible
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
as someone who as worked as a writer and editor of "website news" for four different magazines, I'm guessing the amount of people who saw the headline besides the author is probably somewhere between zero and one.
― dave cool, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
omar otm, if you really subscribe to the unintentional theory then you have to show how this headline was punny in a way that wasn't racist
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprsGABjLVk
― slinky connoisseur (cozen), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2012/02/follow-up-statement-and-action/
― slinky connoisseur (cozen), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
the stupidest thing is that the pun doesn't even make sense! jeremy lin is... in the armor? that's a really terrible pun!
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
no, the racial slur is the pun
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
right, but it still doesn't make sense
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
is just outright calling jeremy lin a racial slur a pun? i'm pretty sure it's just straight up racist
The anchor getting suspended for a month seems harsh, he using a turn of phrase he would have used regardless of Lin's race which wasn't true of the headline imo
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah it's a racist pun
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
it make sense if the goal of the headline writer was to create a headline with the meaning that 'jeremy lin is actually fallible,' and so you chose the one expression out of dozens that would pun on a racial slur
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was how I read it
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
what did the anchor say, i don't even know what that's referring to (to make things worse ESPN used "reference" as a verb, ugh)
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
he used the phrase 'chink in his armour' re turnovers I think, but it didn't seem to me pre planned, it was part of a discussion and I don't think he was trying to make a pun or a racial comment but i could be wrong.
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
cozen linked to it a few posts above
one possibility is that the anchor read the headline prior to making those comments - the phrase could have been kicking around in his head
don't feel like looking for timestamps though
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
i just watched it again and now I'm not sure tbh
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
They just fired the headline writer but didn't release his name, presumably to keep Dom from googling him
― dave cool, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
assuming the TV anchor was speaking extemporaneously then it's hard to see that offensive. the headline writer is far more culpable since writing at least allows a moments reflection on what you're saying.
― ryan, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i guess a relevant question is, does this particular saying have any history of being racially coded in this way? (it will from now on, obviously.)
― ryan, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Racially coded? Naw. ESPN's getting railroaded here, like white on rice. Everyone seems to have a slanted opinion on this. Sure it's a little yellow of them to fire the writer but not the TV host, but hey. Doesn't mean everything has to be racially coded, amirite?
― pplains, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
i see what you did there
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
*gong*
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/Linsanity-Postgame-Cold-Open/1386272
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
linsanity lohan
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
heiglinsanity lohan
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
i often wish for disciplinary action on cliched writing in a professional setting, and if it takes charges of racism to make it stick, so be it. For constant unambiguous racist pun headlines though, I turn to the Economist.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/02/jeremy-lin-slur-an-honest-mistake-says-fired-espn-editor/1?source=twitter#.T0KA-nJWqvQ
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
idk I'm willing to believe on some level he didn't 'get what he was doing' because someone who 'got what he was doing' would know that he was gonna lose his job
― iatee, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Bretos tweeted an apology Saturday, writing that: "My wife is Asian, would never intentionally say anything to disrespect her and that community."
sounds like "I get to make offensive comments because I'm married to one/some of my best friends are &c."
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Chink in the armor" in a sports context is used to describe some kind of powerhouse (player, team), that has previously seemed indestructible that now exhibits a visible flaw, like if Michael Jordan had ever lost in the Finals.
Wasn't Lin being discussed as a powerhouse player though?
I have no idea what happened in this game where the writer used this headline tho
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
similarly, I am addicted to these:
http://i.imgur.com/FzCVR.jpg
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
it made sense... he had never really had anything close to a bad game before the one the headline was referencing
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost Yes, at the time he had just come off of a series of about 9 straight "o wau" games, including several where he won the game in closing moments. I just think "chink in the armor" being used for a player that had less than ten starts under his belt would be a bit premature.
Kind of wonder what kind of shitty pun the writer might have used if he wasn't Asian.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
"Lincapable of Knicktory"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://gaygamer.net/images/dogarmor.jpg
pug in the armor
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
i only post on racism, rap, and meta threads. My transition to becoming Dom Passantino is complete.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
well they lifted your permaban, so don't go celebrating just yet
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.anybooze.com/ekmps/shops/anyboozecom/images/kwai-feh-lychee-liqueur-223-p.jpg
lychee schnapps <3
(though I admit the fake-Chinese name and design are a bit questionable for a drink made in the Netherlands, but, uh)
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
racist fonts really upset me more than racist headlines for some reason.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 26 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I once had some fresh lychees soaked in vodka. Super tasty + oh shit I'm drunk.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Easy way for Ben & Jerry's to have headed off that racial stereotyping dust-up: ask Jeremy Lin what kind of ice cream flavors he likes to eat, then play off those flavors to design a "Lin-sanity" flavor. <--- That will be a $50,000 retro-consulting fee, plz, and worth every penny I might add.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Chink in the armor" would make sense if there were suddenly a specific, major flaw in Lin's play that lost them the game, like he suddenly couldn't pass. That wasn't even the case in the headline game, they just lost, and most of Lin's flaws were already known. Turns the ball over, can't go left, etc..
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
B&J: so what's your favorite...JL: stinky tofu!B&J: ...
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8a1nH.jpg
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
^^ would work well as part of the overall insanity theme.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 19 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
jeremy who?
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
barkley will be pretty matty ice but that's still pretty good
the vague sadness of polls that went on too long
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, Linsanity came, then went for about 5 games, now hopefully is coming back.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/l1jQQ.jpg
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
I was at the ACC for Linsanity last night. Not very insane--six points, I think. It reminded me of driving to Detroit with my dad in '94 to see Griffey, and he didn't get the ball out of the infield.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that was hugely disappointing
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvaM0pMj-8o
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 April 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
oh thought this was in ILH
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 April 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link