THE Q ROCKS » racist headline http://klaq.com Mon, 20 May 2013 16:52:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Slanted News? ESPN Writer Fired Over Anti-Asian Headline http://klaq.com/slanted-news-espn-writers-fired-over-anti-asian-headline/ http://klaq.com/slanted-news-espn-writers-fired-over-anti-asian-headline/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:23:11 +0000 Buzz Adams http://klaq.com/?p=56608 JEREMY LIN'S emergence as a basketball phenomenon has also exposed a surprising amount of racism.

After Lin and the Knicks lost to New Orleans an ESPN writer used the headline "Chink in the Armor." He has been fired.

I guess it's possible that this writer wrote the "Chink" headline without realizing that it could be read as an anti-Asian slur. Possible, but hard to believe.

]]> http://klaq.com/slanted-news-espn-writers-fired-over-anti-asian-headline/feed/ 0 That is SOOO Lin-sensitive.