OLYMPICS 2k8: RACISM(?) FROM SPANISH BASKETBALL.

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08-12-2008, 07:27 PM
aka_red

OLYMPICS 2k8: RACISM(?) FROM SPANISH BASKETBALL.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bei...urn=oly,100152

Now, normally I generally think people over react to anything that could be deemed 'racist'. Generally I think people are too quick jumping the gun in saying something is racially insensitive. However, I feel that this is not one of those situations. This may be because I myself am half Chinese and have a personal involvement. Am I far off? FWIW I agree with the statement in the article that reads
"a simple, "the ad was in poor taste, we apologize" would have sufficed."
08-12-2008, 07:46 PM
ProZachNation

I loled at the picture
08-12-2008, 08:05 PM
wufwugy

this is not racism. racism is treating somebody differently due to race. this is poking fun at a group of people, which when the group is a different race everybody claims it's racist. its not. its no more different than if they were competing against geeks, and they all wore glasses with tape in the middle.

just because its not racist doesnt mean its not offensive. if somebody has a vagina full of sand and rocks and shrubs and all kinds of rubble then they're gonna get upset over being razzed. it is quite devolved to do so, but hey what do you expect from a species that can equate making fun of somebody because of something about them to killing somebody for the same reason

this pic is only in bad taste if spain will allow themselves to be accused of racism because of it.
08-12-2008, 08:16 PM
a500lbgorilla

"Hi, I'm wufwugy"
08-12-2008, 09:45 PM
Lukie

wah wah wah, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it
08-12-2008, 11:11 PM
will641

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lukie

wah wah wah, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it

you are so insensitive lukie.
08-12-2008, 11:28 PM
spoonitnow

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Originally Posted by Lukie

wah wah wah, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it

They should put them in a Pizza Hut box cuz they just got pizzowned.
08-13-2008, 12:58 AM
vqc

being full chinese/taiwanese, i really don't care. As long as I am allowed to do poop on the spanish flag, they can make squinty eyes.
08-13-2008, 07:18 AM
wesrman

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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

"Hi, I'm wufwugy and ill argue about anything regardless of how dumb it is."

FYP.

Its racist, and more than that, its stupid. Why not take a picture in black face too. Who does that kind of shit???
08-13-2008, 08:08 AM
Trikflow77

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lukie

wah wah wah, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it

They should put them in a Pizza Hut box cuz they just got pizzowned.

fail
08-13-2008, 09:56 AM
ATOTHEC101

It is a tad racist, yet slightly amusing at the same time.
08-13-2008, 01:28 PM
Lukie

I think the word you are looking for is 'unprofessional', maybe even 'embarrassing', given the stage they are on, how much attention they are getting, and how they are expected to conduct themselves.

Racist this, racist that, the word is starting to lose meaning with me.
08-13-2008, 01:36 PM
Lukie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Quote:

Racism, by its simplest definition, is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups.
08-13-2008, 02:37 PM
Ltrain

Adequate one word response to the picture ... Why?
08-13-2008, 03:33 PM
wufwugy

Quote:

Originally Posted by wesrman

Quote:

Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

"Hi, I'm wufwugy and ill argue about anything regardless of how dumb it is."

FYP.

Its racist, and more than that, its stupid. Why not take a picture in black face too. Who does that kind of shit???

according to colloquial custom, yes it is racist. according to reality, no it is not
08-13-2008, 05:03 PM
aka_red

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lukie

I think the word you are looking for is 'unprofessional', maybe even 'embarrassing', given the stage they are on, how much attention they are getting, and how they are expected to conduct themselves.

Racist this, racist that, the word is starting to lose meaning with me.

this seems to make the most sense.
08-13-2008, 05:05 PM
wesrman

Semantics FTW.
08-13-2008, 05:33 PM
aka_red

UPDATE: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bei...yhoo&type=lgns
08-13-2008, 08:24 PM
pankfish

Poor taste. Could you expect anything different from those dirty spaniards?
08-13-2008, 08:42 PM
wesrman

“We did it because we thought it was going to be something nice, something with no problem,” Calderon told Yahoo! Sports.

WTF???
08-13-2008, 11:08 PM
Warpe

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...knot2/race.jpg
08-13-2008, 11:14 PM
BankItDrew

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Originally Posted by Warpe

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...knot2/race.jpg

I love this pic