Posted on 05/29/2017 1:48:55 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
A Denver sportswriter is out of his job after triggering an onslaught of criticism for tweeting that a Japanese driver winning Sunday's Indianapolis 500 made him "uncomfortable."
Terry Frei, a sports reporter for the Denver Post, sent the questionable tweet shortly after Japanese race car driver Takuma Sato hailed victory in the illustrious Indy 500.
"Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend," he wrote.
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Indeed in the old days you would never see the empty seats in the stands like you do these days. It was a much bigger event back in my youth.
Look at the sources and citations, genius. Unless you can’t read, of course.
Thanks.
Takuma Sato is a super-nice guy, even engaging if you can do a little conversational Japanese. It was a good win, even if he backed into it.
I’m a Tokyo-born product of the Korean war.
The two biggest alternate histories I’ve thought of since high school are:
Where would the PRC be today if Richard Nixon didn’t officially recognize them?
And the second being, would there even have been an Imperial Japan if Commodore Perry didn’t threaten to bombard Tokyo Bay in the 19th century?
Forgive me if that’s in error but that’s how I remember learning about it in high school.
Rule # 42
If you get a chance to learn Japanese, I recommend it. I don’t speak a damned lick of it, but it’s easy to understand. The Japanese speak it very clearly and slowly - it’s easy to follow along with minimal training.
And once you do you’ll soon learn how utterly ridiculous the Osaka / Nagoya women sound. Oh god they just whine like an SNL character doing their best impression of a Long Island Jewish woman.
I see you are a well rounded ijit.
Well done!
“Where would the PRC be today if Richard Nixon didn’t officially recognize them?”
Nixon and Bush propped them up.
“Realist” policy.
Well all I know is Sato was the raciest person yesterday
“Where would the PRC be today if Richard Nixon didn’t officially recognize them?”
Likely more allied with Russia and a strong possibility that the USSR would still exist.
That would be very bad.
Or China would still be Maoist.
That too.
Strange, I never saw any such claim in the article. What's wrong with you?
Is that like the Valley Girls talk?
That’s the weird thing about this year’s engines.
The Honda engines are manufactured in the U.S. The Chevrolet engines are manufactured in the UK.
Not much wrong with me. That’s just my claim. How do we not know that the sports writer’s family may have been taken out by some Japanese soldier in WWII? Who are we to judge?
That was three generations of Japanese ago. They have been steadfast friends of the US since the 1950s and PM Abe was the first foreign leader to greet Trump as president. I have no more animus against the Japanese than I do against the Russian people and quite frankly, after the NATO summit last week, I have far more animus toward the smirking Belgians, French, Germans and Luxeumburgese who won’t bear their share of NATO defense costs while we pay 73 percent of it. Indy is a world race and that is one reason why it is the greatest of auto races.
Oh really? How many have you actually met? I would go out on a limb here and say virtually none and that your comment is indeed based on ignorance.
If the American population, especially within the inner cities, were to demand the excellence in academics of their children as the Asian population do, we wouldn't be having the "cultural differences" and violence we currently have......
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