I thought fortune cookies were made in America by a Japanese decedent.
I don't see why they'd put Fortune Cookies in there anyway.
They're very much an American creation.
No, they're made of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Didn't you get the memo?
I wonder if we'll ever get to that Star Trek level of human unity?
Where basically 99% of the population don't give a shit about race/creed, and just want to better humanity as a whole, instead of just their race or religion.
People will probably laugh at that, but look how far we've come in just the past hundred years or so.
I eat potatoes at least 5 days a weekAs a person of Irish and Scottish decent, I find it racist that they use white ice cream with everything. Also MacDonald's is insulting Irish people everywhere with French frys implying that we still only eat potatoes.
Well, humanity would need a common goal or enemy. So until the race of humanoids with asses for faces shows up, we'll probably keep on fighting each other. Also, as long as resources are unevenly distributed and some people feel deprived, we will not get along.
Wikipedia says there's a dispute about the origin of the modern fortune cookie in the States, but they are probably a descendant of a Japanese cookie called omikuji.
No. The chocolate ice cream will offend black people and somone will find a way to be offended by the strawberry ice cream.
As the representative of the black community, chocolate ice cream offends me!
I think people should be offended how bad it tastes.lol wut
PC shit is getting waaaaaay out of hand. How was anyone offended by this?
Fortune cookies a bit silly to get worked up over. Though it's also a bit of a silly novelty bad taste addition to add that Asian element imo. If I was heading the design of such a new product, I'd have offered an alternative. Sticking to a re-brand of the graphics would have sufficed.
On a side note, I'd have to agree that "Chink in the armour" could very well be racist. If it wasn't intended as such, the writer was so negligent and lacking in common sense he should have lost his job either way.
If somebody can't use the phrase "chink in the armor," that's PC bullshit.
If somebody can't use the phrase "chink in the armor," that's PC bullshit. Unequivocally. When people complain about political correctness being bullshit, the idea of being offended at the phrase "chink in the armor," which is WAY older of a phrase than "chink" for somebody of Chinese descent, is exactly what people think of. It's literally no different than if a black person were to take offense at the word "niggardly," despite the fact that that word has nothing to do with the word nigger.
Actually, I think the equivalent would be putting bits of fried chicken in ice cream in honor of some black guy.As the representative of the black community, chocolate ice cream offends me!
If somebody can't use the phrase "chink in the armor," that's PC bullshit. Unequivocally. When people complain about political correctness being bullshit, the idea of being offended at the phrase "chink in the armor," which is WAY older of a phrase than "chink" for somebody of Chinese descent, is exactly what people think of. It's literally no different than if a black person were to take offense at the word "niggardly," despite the fact that that word has nothing to do with the word nigger.
You don't flavor something by someone's ethnicity. Holy shit, guys.
I bet GAF would be totally cool with sugar-cookie-chunks in the shape of fried chicken to honor a black athlete. No?
It just so happens that the Asian equivalent happens to go well with ice cream.
If somebody can't use the phrase "chink in the armor," that's PC bullshit. Unequivocally. When people complain about political correctness being bullshit, the idea of being offended at the phrase "chink in the armor," which is WAY older of a phrase than "chink" for somebody of Chinese descent, is exactly what people think of. It's literally no different than if a black person were to take offense at the word "niggardly," despite the fact that that word has nothing to do with the word nigger.
Beat ya by 3 minutes bruh, but you're right.
Just wait till there is a hispanic president.You don't flavor something by someone's ethnicity. Holy shit, guys.
I bet GAF would be totally cool with sugar-cookie-chunks in the shape of fried chicken to honor a black athlete. No?
It just so happens that the Asian equivalent coincidentally goes well with ice cream.
Using the phrase "chink in the armor" in a context involving an Asian-American isn't racist?LOL.
Using the phrase "chink in the armor" in a context involving an Asian-American isn't racist?LOL.
Context, though, can change the use of "chink" or "niggardly" from something innocuous into something racist.
Of course I buy that somebody could use the terms in a racist way, but "chink in the armor" as used in casual conversation or commentary does not suddenly become racist just because you happen to be describing a person of Chinese descent. You'd have to reasonably establish that the person had used the terms in an intentionally racial way (and, unsurprisingly, these sorts of things tend to be obvious).
Hell, if you're playing badly, then I'll describe you as a chink in a team's armor no matter what your race.
Of course I buy that somebody could use the terms in a racist way, but "chink in the armor" as used in casual conversation or commentary does not suddenly become racist just because you happen to be describing a person of Chinese descent. You'd have to reasonably establish that the person had used the terms in an intentionally racial way (and, unsurprisingly, these sorts of things tend to be obvious).
Hell, if you're playing badly, then I'll describe you as a chink in a team's armor no matter what your race.
Nobody is saying the phrase "chink in the armor" should be banished from discourse. However, Lin's Chinese-ness is front and center and it's clearly a dumb thing to say if you're talking about him. It doesn't have to be intentionally hateful, but boy would you have to be stupid to say it. And it's not unreasonable for somebody, somewhere, to be offended by the use of "chink," for any reason, when talking about a Chinese person.
It's not necessarily racist, but it's insensitive. Why would you rather be hyper-rational about the use of a word than avoid hurting someone's feelings?
But he's American with Taiwanese parents
How about you don't call an Asian person a "chink" in any context because it might be misinterpreted? There are other ways to call someone a liability.
Of course I buy that somebody could use the terms in a racist way, but "chink in the armor" as used in casual conversation or commentary does not suddenly become racist just because you happen to be describing a person of Chinese descent. You'd have to reasonably establish that the person had used the terms in an intentionally racial way (and, unsurprisingly, these sorts of things tend to be obvious).
Hell, if you're playing badly, then I'll describe you as a chink in a team's armor no matter what your race.
Edit: And again, a colloquial phrase does not become retroactively racist just because one of its words takes on a racial undertone in certain contexts. The meaning of "chink" in "chink in the armor" is completely distinct from its provenance as a slur for Chinese people, and if you just go "wait, he said 'chink in the armor' with regard to an Asian person? RACIST" without actually thinking about the different contexts of the phrases and the context in which the person used the phrase, then you're basically actively looking to make something that clearly is not racial into something racial. That's what anti-PC people have a problem with, and it's one of the primary ways in which otherwise agreeable liberalism becomes unpalatable to a lot of people.
You are arguing with something that I did not say.
If somebody misinterprets something that is clearly not racial, that's their own problem. Lin's Chineseness is only "front and center" because people chose to willfully misconstrue a phrase from one context and imbue meaning into it from another context. "Chink in the armor" is a race-neutral phrase and should remain so. This sense that we always need to watch what we say in order to not offend people, even when something that we say should not be offensive in any way and is only construed as such due to a tangential linguistic relation, is what tends to bug people about political correctness.
Edit: Zoe, why does it make a difference? Why should we not use "chink in the armor" just because one of its words has taken on unfortunate latter-day contexts? It's still a perfectly good phrase.
If somebody misinterprets something that is clearly not racial, that's their own problem. Lin's Chineseness is only "front and center" because people chose to willfully misconstrue a phrase from one context and imbue meaning into it from another context. "Chink in the armor" is a race-neutral phrase and should remain so. This sense that we always need to watch what we say in order to not offend people, even when something that we say should not be offensive in any way and is only construed as such due to a tangential linguistic relation, is what tends to bug people about political correctness.
Edit: Zoe, why does it make a difference? Why should we not use "chink in the armor" just because one of its words has taken on unfortunate latter-day contexts? It's still a perfectly good phrase.
How about you don't call an Asian person a "chink" in any context because it might be misinterpreted? There are other ways to call someone a liability.
It's not "pc bullshit", it's called cultural sensitivity and tact.
Words evolve.They change meaning over time.
"Chink" is racially charged now and doesn't work in all context like it used to.
He grew up in the US..the fortune cookies thing was really dumb
the dude grew up in taiwan and even if he were from china, it'd still be dumb.
Some people are too ignorant, stupid or actually racist to think or want to think that far ahead. You're writing about a Chinese star who has already had racist controversy surrounding him, the last thing you do is write an article about him using the word "chink" in the headline. Dent, gap, crack etc sure, if not, change the fucking heading. This whole thing about context. he could have meant it non racially doesn't come in to it. If there's a high probability it could be percieved as racist and offensive to a great many people for obvious reasons, don't use it. With God knows how many words at your disposal, there's no need to throw in a highly likely to be antagonistic one.
If not for racism, he should have still been fired for lack of foresight and stupidity. That headline is about the farthest thing from professional journalism and common sense as you can get.
So if somebody honors an American with a hamburger, that's being insensitive?