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1 posted on 04/14/2008 5:55:11 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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That's a racial slur? Is it any different than Frenchman, Dutchman, Englishman, et cetera?

We're becoming a world of thin-skinned ninnies.
2 posted on 04/14/2008 5:57:18 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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Chinaman is an ethnic slur?


3 posted on 04/14/2008 5:57:27 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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I’m a bit confused. Chinaman is offensive? Is it not the same as saying the Irishman or Englishman?

Or was there something else to what the guy said?


4 posted on 04/14/2008 5:57:43 AM PDT by elc
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chinaman is a racial slur?


5 posted on 04/14/2008 5:57:48 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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He’s a white male; therefore, he must be fired!


6 posted on 04/14/2008 5:58:12 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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What in the world? I suppose “Chinaman” is a bit out of date as a term, but would it still have been a “slur” if he’d said “Chinese man”?


7 posted on 04/14/2008 6:00:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
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The media’s syrupy and continual adulation of Woods becomes very tiresome over the course of 18 holes. Often when a white player maked a poor shot a scathing remark such as “Raggedy!” issued forth from the announcer.

Let Woods slice one or miss a perfectly gainable putt, and 90% of the time, excuses are offered or if it just becomes necessary to meaningfully criticize his playing it’s done quickly, with few barely audible words and then dropped.

Old world and Old South, eh? Nope, no bias there.


8 posted on 04/14/2008 6:01:08 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (I am a proud supporter of Israel.)
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Should he have said “the golfer of Chinese origin” instead?


9 posted on 04/14/2008 6:01:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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But, the media refuse to excoriate any black who spews racial slurs against whites because:

a. White’s deserve it’, and/or

b. Some blacks are discendants of slaves.


10 posted on 04/14/2008 6:01:58 AM PDT by Eurale
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Got a news flash for all the PC ninnies out there.

When Liang is speaking with other Chinese, I guarantee he refers to whites as “Lao Wai” - a slightly nicer version of “Gueilo”, the Cantonese term for foreign devil.

“Lao Wai” means “Old Foreigner”, and is used even in America - by Chinese immigrants here, to describe whites.

Daily. I guarantee it.


12 posted on 04/14/2008 6:02:46 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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IDIOT!!!

He should have said “Chinawoman.”


14 posted on 04/14/2008 6:04:58 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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This PC BS has gone way too far.


15 posted on 04/14/2008 6:05:27 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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Sounds like it’s Bobby Clampett’s time for the Two Minute’s of Hate.


16 posted on 04/14/2008 6:07:00 AM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Where is this going to end? (rhetorical)

I recently referred to someone as “oriental” and was told that was a racial slur also. I can’t keep up. I did not intend to slur the person- simply to describe him. Is that even possible anymore? It was explained to me that “Asian” is now the PC term ..


17 posted on 04/14/2008 6:07:38 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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18 posted on 04/14/2008 6:07:45 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Huh?)
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On second thought, he should have said “orientalman.”


21 posted on 04/14/2008 6:08:48 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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This is stupid! Since when is it a SLUR to call anybody a MAN?...................


24 posted on 04/14/2008 6:10:38 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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In response, he said, “Oh so solly!”


25 posted on 04/14/2008 6:11:00 AM PDT by dr.zaeus
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referred to Chinese golfer Wen-Chong Liang as "the Chinaman,"

The defining moment; is Wen-Chong Liang a Chinaman?

28 posted on 04/14/2008 6:14:22 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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Chinaman is an old slur. I think it dates back to the coolies, late 1800s. Just as Oriental is considered a slur when applied to an Asian person, rather than the region.

Chinaman does not equal Frenchman, Irishman, Dutchman, etc. To make it equal it would be Chineseman.

This is all trivial stuff, but those are the correct answers. Personally, I find it humorous that anyone would worry about it. If Mr. Clampett gets any kind of reprimand, it would be complete injustice.

As to the fawning over Tiger Woods. It’s deserved. It has nothing to do with his ethnicity, he is simply the best, and quite possibly the best to ever pick up a golf club. Tiger has charisma, physical ability, and mental toughness. When I watch, I want to know what Tiger is up to.


32 posted on 04/14/2008 6:16:51 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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