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Apologizes for Using ‘Chink in the Armor’ to Describe Yankees Japanese Pitcher
Breitbart ^ | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 10/08/2018 12:10:26 PM PDT by nycteacher

Mets legend Ron Darling is under fire for using the term “chink in the armor,” in reference to Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: apology; baseball; chingchong; masahirotanaka; mets; mlb; rondarling; slur; yankees
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1 posted on 10/08/2018 12:10:26 PM PDT by nycteacher
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To: nycteacher

That’s stupid. The guy is Japanese, not Chinese.


2 posted on 10/08/2018 12:12:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: nycteacher
Ah so! So solly, Cholly!
 
3 posted on 10/08/2018 12:12:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: nycteacher

Oh good grief.


4 posted on 10/08/2018 12:12:47 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: nycteacher

The stupidity. It burns.


5 posted on 10/08/2018 12:12:49 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: nycteacher

Oh, for crying out loud. This PC stuff is completely over the top. The guy is Japanese—how could it be a racial slur in any way?


6 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:00 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: nycteacher

Oh my gosh.......

Political correctness has gone way too far...........


7 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nycteacher

Not a chink in the armor, but a samurai in the armor!;)


8 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:35 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: nycteacher

Since when did Nips become Chinks?


9 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:49 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: nycteacher
who is the racist bigot that considers all Asians to be Chinese? They all look alike, right?.... /s
10 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:51 PM PDT by Hatteras
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“Wop, wop, wop..! Here come the choppers..!”

OMG I’M SO SORRY...!


11 posted on 10/08/2018 12:13:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: nycteacher
Chinese = Chinks
Japanese = Nips
12 posted on 10/08/2018 12:14:19 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: nycteacher

As an Italian-American, I know some idiot will sue Burger King for the term “Whopper”. Thanks a lot you limp-wristed libtards...


13 posted on 10/08/2018 12:14:22 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: nycteacher

I recall an old interview with Ron where said he got his brawn from his dad and his brains from his Chinese mom.


14 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:14 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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To: BobL

A nip in the armor? Hmm... It will take a little getting used to...


15 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:22 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: dinodino

All of this sh*t started in the 90’s when the guilt-ridden libs shamed all of us SLOWLY.


16 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:24 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: nycteacher

Glad they nipped this in the bud.


17 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nycteacher

Darling is himself part Chinese.


18 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nycteacher

Pretty sure, the slur is not spelled that way.


19 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:59 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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Be not a niggard of your speech! How goes it?

—shakespeare.


20 posted on 10/08/2018 12:16:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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