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Dave Chance
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Part of the reason this Jeremy Lin story is so big is precisely because he's putting up hall of fame numbers outta nowhere, AND Asian-American.
It just hits so many buttons simmering in the underbelly of society, whether we'd like to admit it or not.
The guys who were fired from ESPN, they're not necessarily evil, they're just conduits for sentiments that are bubbling over all over the place, because Lin is doing something which just shatters so many popularly held (mis)conceptions, so something's gotta give somewhere...and it is, and probably will continue to |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Sad to say, I've seen/heard worse rants directed at Korea/'Koreans by unhappy foreigners than anything Jenny Hyun had to say.
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Seriously? Worse? ...That's interesting Never heard anything like it, especially in language like that, even when there were no Koreans in the group, which is when you'd be more likely to hear negative stuff. (not that everything is positive of course)
Figured it might get flipped back around like that. That seems to happen a lot.
Jenny has mental health issues, but the sentiments don't seem all that much different from some of the Korean Sentry stuff, she just worded it more forcefully. Makes you wonder how widespread some of these sentiments really are, not that anyone would admit to it anyway.
Wonder if the story will make the Korean news. |
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geedawg
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Sad to say, I've seen/heard worse rants directed at Korea/'Koreans by unhappy foreigners than anything Jenny Hyun had to say.
She needs help. I'd try to help.
I've had a lot of experience with psycho Korean girls. I should open my own clinic. |
Honestly I am not trying to start a flame war here...but I do not think you can say anything worse than saying one large category of the human race should be wiped out. Also by calling herself mentally unstable does not excuse someone from using such racial slurs especially if they are in the public eye.
http://www.soompi.com/news/jenny-hyuns-offending-tweets-calling-for-eradication-of-the-black-community-spark-controversy |
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Dave Chance
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/7617213/new-york-knicks-jeremy-lin-ben-jerry-apologizes-lin-sanity-flavor
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| Ben & Jerry's, the iconic ice cream brand famous for flavors borrowed from a broad swath of the culinary spectrum, has apologized for including fortune cookies in its "Taste the Lin-Sanity" frozen yogurt sold at a Harvard Square location in Boston. |
Why the hell does Ben and Jerry's have to be sorry for that and remove it from their ice cream?
I think that ice cream would be delicious. This is PC going too far. I'm a gyopo, and if I was famous and Ben and Jerry's made a "Hodeok" flavored ice cream, I'd be ecstatic.
I'd tell everyone "Yo! this is my ice cream!" |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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I think its the fact that they didn't even bother to ask Lin and the first thing they thought of was fortune cookies. Maybe Jeremy Lin would like something with cherries and pieces of Mr. Goodbar or something.
That and its a bit like coming out with a Tiger Woods ice cream way back when he won the Masters for the first time and following Fuzzy Zoeller and putting bits of fried chicken and watermelon in it. |
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pkang0202
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sirius black
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
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http://news.yahoo.com/obama-lin-sanity-ive-jeremy-lin-bandwagon-while-130050771--abc-news.html
Obama on Lin-sanity: 'I've Been on the Jeremy Lin Bandwagon for a While'
President Obama says he was ahead of the curve when it comes to New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
"I've been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while," the president told ESPN's Bill Simmons Wednesday. "I knew about Jeremy before you did, before everybody else did."
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who often plays basketball with the president, first drew his attention to the breakout star.
"Arne and I were playing and he said 'I'm telling you, we've got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard,'" Obama said.
Duncan, who played professional basketball in Australia before turning to politics, is a former captain of the Harvard team, Lin's alma mater.
Asked jokingly by Simmons if he was taking credit for Lin-sanity, the president said "I can't take credit for it. But I'm just saying, I was there early."
lol..now Obama is jumping in. Must be an election year. |
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