Wow, this is one of the most ignorant posts I've read in awhile.
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Ben & Jerry's drops fortune cookies from 'Lin-Sanity'
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Wow, this is one of the most ignorant posts I've read in awhile.
RedAssedApe
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lol...when in doubt just feign ignorance I suppose.
PigSpeakers
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Every time I go to the chinese buffet, I eat my fortune cookie with a small dish of vanilla ice cream. It's awesome.
We can say the strawberry is either communist or gay. That'll rankle some feathers.
or better yet, bubble tea flavor ice cream.
ah god yes
speculawyer
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Yeah, that is what I was thinking. What's wrong with fortune cookies?
Damn Westerner
If Ben & Jerry's made an egg tart flavored ice cream, that'd be fucking awesome.
or better yet, bubble tea flavor ice cream.
Thats racist
I also ate chili chocolate, which is racist chocolate.
Zoe
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The hearts of Taiwanese Americans across the US have been broken.
speculawyer
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Oh shut your Haggis eating mouth.
;-)
PumpkinPie
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Terrible film.
sixteen-bit
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I know, right?
Black Republican
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dont think the media is used to seeing Asian Americans daily in the sports and the entertainment industry.
Putting fortune cookies in a flavour to honour a Taiwanese guy is pretty damn stupid, but it sounds like a good flavour.
Fine Taiwanese cuisine!If Ben & Jerry's made an egg tart flavored ice cream, that'd be fucking awesome.
or better yet, bubble tea flavor ice cream.
Sho_Nuff82
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I'm going to try one of these this week.
Battersea Power Station
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I don't think anyone recognized this winning comment.
Well that's just like your opinion man.
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.
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.
What are you? A 10 years old? Yes, "Chink" is a slur against Chinese people.
I'm sorry that you lost your ability to be racist or to use racist language to mock people from different culture in this day and age.
Woo-Fu
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When people have real problems to deal with.
Just because you're ignorant to the slur, doesn't make it any less racist. Just like you being ignorant to say a law, doesn't make breaking that law legal.
I have no idea how sheltered someone has to be to not know the racist connotation attached to that word. Damn. It's like the de facto racist slur for Chinese people. The equivalent of not knowing the racist context of the N word.
speculawyer
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mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Maybe they should use rice krispies instead. That sounds like it would be good in a mix.
Oh wait, that's racist too! I never knew I could be so insensitive.
Oh wait, that's racist too! I never knew I could be so insensitive.
adamsappel
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Well, Lin IS Chinese-American (if we're going to use the hyphenated background thing).
bean breath
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This.
I guess we can't call Taco Bell "Mexican Food" either, because HOLY SHIT TACOS AND SHIT ARE OFFENSIVE TO MEXICANS.
(As a Mexican, I AM offended that Taco Bell dares to call itself "Mexican Food", but that's beside the point)
You mean you've never had a wrap before?
Doesn't bother me, burritos are as American as apple pie. My family in Mexico doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about when I mention burritos. Must be a regional thing.
Back on topic, it is pretty racist. Why can't the flavor just be basketball themed? New York Knicks/New York? Harvard? Under dog? There are a lot of aspects that you can draw from aside from his racial heritage.
Armor is a slur for "Chinese?"
I'm playing to the fact they won't state which it is, GAF. I know what it is. Settle down.
Also being offended by Fortune Cookies in ice cream is over the top bullshit. In fact, I think I'm going to go to a Chinese restaurant, get a bunch of fortune cookies at a die a piece and put them in Ben and Jerry's ice cream. TAKE THAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Patrick Bateman
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Those naggers.
A racist joke is still racist, no need to whine about "PC bullshit".
Refrigerator
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Why isn't lychee considered offensive? Not all Chinese people eat that.
teruterubozu
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I think they did the right thing. Who wants pieces of paper in their ice cream?
Patrick Bateman
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Chinese people are made of paper?
teruterubozu
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People are in ice cream?
I thought fortune cookies were made in America by a Japanese decedent.
No, they're made of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Didn't you get the memo?
Count Dookkake
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I like how the article has to explain how puns work.
AceBandage
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I don't see why they'd put Fortune Cookies in there anyway.
They're very much an American creation.
They're very much an American creation.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
The ice cream also contains a "lychee honey swirl," and lychee is associated with China and Chinese cuisine, just like fortune cookies (in America, anyway). So why is one ingredient offensive and the other isn't? Is it that one is natively Chinese and the other is an American invention? Why is it more racist to include the American-invented ingredient? Lin is Chinese-American, after all.
Just like basketball and Jeremy Lin.
Just like basketball and Jeremy Lin.
blame space
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this is so PC
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.
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.
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