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Sportswriter Tweets That Japanese Indy 500 Winner Makes Him ‘Uncomfortable’

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ISOM

Member
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sportswriter-tweets-japanese-indy-500-winner-makes-him-uncomfortable-n765826
A Denver sportswriter is out of his job after triggering an onslaught of criticism for tweeting that a Japanese driver winning Sunday's Indianapolis 500 made him "uncomfortable."

Terry Frei, a sports reporter for the Denver Post, sent the questionable tweet shortly after Japanese race car driver Takuma Sato hailed victory in the illustrious Indy 500.

"Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend," he wrote.

The tweet immediately evoked a firestorm of criticism on social media.
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Plum

Member
The Indy 500 is Pearl Harbor 2.0! Wake up, people!

How can someone possibly be this stupid?
 
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Volimar

Member
Saw this as it was happening on Twitter. He deleted the tweet but the internet was too fast for him. Now he's looking for a new job. Dumbass.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
HAHAHA at that double down. They always double down. Always. The sad thing is that if it was just a bad joke, he might've kept his job. Just say it was in poor taste and move on. But it wasn't even a joke, this dude genuinely seems uncomfortable with the idea of a Japanese person winning on Memorial Day. You're hanging onto to WWII beef, dude? Really?
 
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Alucrid

Banned
at least people uncomfortable with japanese in america just make tweets about it now instead of throwing them in camps
 
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Aiii

So not worth it
Grizzlyjin said:
HAHAHA at that double down. They always double down. Always. The sad thing is that if it was just a bad joke, he might've kept his job. Just say it was in poor taste and move on. But it wasn't even a joke, this dude genuinely seems uncomfortable with the idea of a Japanese person winning on Memorial Day. You're hanging onto to WWII beef, dude? Really?
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Maybe he was uncomfortable because he remembered how his grandparents helped round up the Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps. He only had 140 characters after all. He could have spun that if he hadn't doubled down.
 
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CaviarMeths

Member
Goddamn, what a thing to choose to be the hill you die on. My dad's friend was killed in a war 70 years ago, can't trust them Japanese!

Also watch out for them shifty Ottoman Turk fellas, and the Mongols.
 
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massoluk

Banned
One could celebrate the event as how descendents of two nations that we're at war 72 years ago can come together to compete in the race. But he chose racism.
 
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Saya

Member
What a dumbass. He says nothing personal, but then makes it extremely personal in his apology.

What does he think of Sebastian Vettel, a German, winning the Monaco Grand Prix on Memorial Day weekend?
 
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TheGreatMightyPoo

Banned
That Japanese driver didn't kill your dad's friend so that's a shit-for-brains argument.
Generalization and racism often go hand in hand and is unhealthy.
 
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paperboywriter

Member
i dont get it. why is that making someone uncomfortable? I feel like people in the US take way longer to get over some historical feuds with there neighbors or people of other races. get over it already, it's been 70 years
 
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Cels

Member
so this writer's dad's friends died in WW2 fighting the japanese so he hates that a japanese man won the indy 500, which is always held during memorial day weekend

is there any non-racist way to spin this
 
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ultracal31

You don't get to bring friends.
Cels said:
so this writer's dad's friends died in WW2 fighting the japanese so he hates that a japanese man won the indy 500, which is always held during memorial day weekend

is there any non-racist way to spin this
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Well he could have tried the 'I have asian friends' route
 
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Sayad

Member
paperboywriter said:
i dont get it. why is that making someone uncomfortable?
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Spinoff90

Member
Saya said:
What does he think of Sebastian Vettel, a German, winning the Monaco Grand Prix on Memorial Day weekend?
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In an Italian car at that. Wonder how uncomfortable his name makes him considering...

The Frei surname comes from the Middle High German word "vri," meaning "free," and as a name, it referred to a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf in the feudal system.
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew

Banned
Grizzlyjin said:
HAHAHA at that double down. They always double down. Always. The sad thing is that if it was just a bad joke, he might've kept his job. Just say it was in poor taste and move on. But it wasn't even a joke, this dude genuinely seems uncomfortable with the idea of a Japanese person winning on Memorial Day. You're hanging onto to WWII beef, dude? Really?
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The nukes made a hole in his heart. Poor sportswriter, with such precious opinion about touchdowns and hail marys.
 
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Volimar

Member
paperboywriter said:
i dont get it. why is that making someone uncomfortable? I feel like people in the US take way longer to get over some historical feuds with there neighbors or people of other races. get over it already, it's been 70 years
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Let me tell you about the war between the states.
 
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Korey

Member
Isn't it weird how some otherwise normal, professional people have some horrific lack of judgement?

Like, you have your little racist thought, you type it into your phone or whatever...before you press TWEET you should stop and think to yourself "should I post this?"

Dumbass.
 
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eggandI

Banned
paperboywriter said:
i dont get it. why is that making someone uncomfortable? I feel like people in the US take way longer to get over some historical feuds with there neighbors or people of other races. get over it already, it's been 70 years
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The same reason it makes a lot of white middle class parents deeply uncomfortable when Asian kids start getting all the best grades in schools
 
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paperboywriter

Member
eggandI said:
The same reason it makes a lot of white middle class parents deeply uncomfortable when Asian kids start getting all the best grades in schools
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yeah but isn't this story specifically a WW2 thing? I might be missing something here. Well in any case he is an ass for complaining about a Japanese/ asian guy winning some sporting event.
 
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kottila

Member
paperboywriter said:
i dont get it. why is that making someone uncomfortable? I feel like people in the US take way longer to get over some historical feuds with there neighbors or people of other races. get over it already, it's been 70 years
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Have you ever heard of the Balkans? They're still bitter over things that happened 700years ago
 
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danm999

Member
paperboywriter said:
yeah but isn't this story specifically a WW2 thing? I might be missing something here. Well in any case he is an ass for complaining about a Japanese/ asian guy winning some sporting event.
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Well his reasoning seems to be it's Memorial Day weekend when the United States honours its fallen servicemen and the United States once fought Japan.

Although logically his antipathy would have to extend to Germans, Italians, Austrians, Turkish, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Spaniards, Afghanis, Libyans, Canadians, Britons...

And I guess because of the Civil War Americans..?
 
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Usobuko

Banned
He and people who agreed with him need to git gud before whinning about outsiders winning the race.

Outsiders as in those they deemed to be different than them.
 
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Unhandled Exception

Member
Frei is a terrible sports writer in general, and learning that he's also a terrible person doesn't really come as a shock at this point.

As an aside, the Denver Post has had terrible sports writing for decades now. Adrian Dater (a former coworker of Frei's) got fired for getting wasted and propositioning and harrassing women he worked with, met from work, or women he thought he could use his work as leverage with in twitter DMs. He is a father and was married at the time, unsure if that has changed.
 
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The Kree

Banned
We dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They won the Indy 500. Can't we just call it even and be friends? Sheesh.
 
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