I think they should do away with the phrase entirely.I can't believe some of the posts in this thread. You can argue technicalities all you want but the fact is that even if they weren't intending to be racist, the headline reads as if they were intending to use a slur as a pun. For that reason alone they should not have ran it. It doesn't matter if there's a certain way to look at it that makes it non-racist.
Youre telling me if an asian was reading the paper and read the headline 'Chink in the armor." He would first have to read the article to see if theyre referring to an asian, and then he can decide whether hes offended or not.
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"Oh ok they were only referring to Tiger Woods so thats ok - wait hes half asian! now Im back to being angry"