Are you
easily offended?
[ESPN's 'chink'
headline is no laughing matter
:
Insult to Jeremy Lin is proof that prejudice against Asian-Americans
remains..."[Photo with caption: The Knicks' star point guard has been the victim
of prejudice,
as have many other Asian-Americans.] In the days since an ESPN editor slapped a
staggeringly offensive headline atop a story about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin —
“Chink in the Armor” — the outrage
has mostly simmered down to a question: What the hell was he thinking?
The editor, who was fired, insists that he intended no pun on Lin’s ethnicity —
in which case he was guilty only of being bad at his job, because absent the
racist reference, the headline is so stale it’s nearly senseless..." Full text:
ESPN's 'chink' headline is no laughing matter
Are you easily offended?
Ac 17:26
"I never thought of the original
comment as racist but when you are looking for a reason to create a victim
status for your own political gain then everything is really code for some sort
of white racist."
It was a play
on words. The editor was fired.
"Jewed him
down," "jipped me," "welched on a bet," "beanerized it," "n'igger-rigged it"
etc. Are these things offensive? When was the last time you were offended? Can
you remember?
"Well, there is certainly no place
for this in the media...."
They are so
honorable.
"Firing him was the right thing to
do."
Why? Did the
writer intend to hurt Lin? Lin certainly didn't think so.
"I tend to get offended more for
other people than I do myself."
This is the
point. Can you remember the last time that you were offended personally? I
cannot. Dennis Prager spoke about this recently and he mentioned a study which
found that Mexican women were less offended than their Caucasian counterparts
because they had less college education. In college, women learn to become
offended
by benign things [24 Feb 11, Dennis Prager radio program].
Wanting to defend others against a bully or a bigot is a good thing. But how
many times do people say what they do to hurt others? When Prager discussed this
on his show he said that PC talk dehumanizes us.
He is a Jew and his friend used the phrase "I really Jewed that guy down." He
didn't know what it meant and he asked him about it. His friend explained it--it
didn't mean that he was attempting to get an equitable deal for both sides--it
meant he got a bargain. Prager wasn't offended by it.
If his friend was an anti-Semite he wouldn't be his friend at all.
Are Jews good in business? Yes, the are.
Response to
comment [from a Christian]: "Why aren't we offended when people humiliate
others..."
You Lefties
have turned feeling offended
into an art form.
"Why do we choose to further
humiliate the victims..."
You're good at
imaging that you are victims,
too.
Are you
offended when someone disagrees with you?
[from a Christian]: "It all comes
down to present day Political Correctness. PC has quite a history, as it's
"cultural Marxism": "Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about
this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented
statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it –
where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be
fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have
to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or
insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic..."
The
Origins of Political Correctness
Are
you easily offended?