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Originally posted by: sygyzy
Most of the NYT comments follow the trend of "this is not racist. Everyone is just to sensitive/PC"
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Bullshit. Of course it's racist. But who cares, it's not illegal to be a racist... in America... yet. I know there are some fucked up laws in the UK regarding racism, dunno about Spain.
 
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Most of the NYT comments follow the trend of "this is not racist. Everyone is just to sensitive/PC"
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Bullshit. Of course it's racist. But who cares, it's not illegal to be a racist... in America... yet. I know there are some fucked up laws in the UK regarding racism, dunno about Spain.
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Please explain how it is racist. I'd like to hear that one.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Most of the NYT comments follow the trend of "this is not racist. Everyone is just to sensitive/PC"
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Bullshit. Of course it's racist. But who cares, it's not illegal to be a racist... in America... yet. I know there are some fucked up laws in the UK regarding racism, dunno about Spain.
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Please explain how it is racist. I'd like to hear that one.
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So would I.
 
I have been in spain and i just laughed at the whole idea that this thing is racist...

i mean wake up guys, not every single country in the world is as sensitive to this kind of thing, not everyone waves the racism flag whenever they see something they dont like. some people are way too sensitive with the racial issue that its funny sometimes.

i do agree that it may be a bit tasteless, but not racist at all.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Most of the NYT comments follow the trend of "this is not racist. Everyone is just to sensitive/PC"
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Bullshit. Of course it's racist. But who cares, it's not illegal to be a racist... in America... yet. I know there are some fucked up laws in the UK regarding racism, dunno about Spain.
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Please explain how it is racist. I'd like to hear that one.
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Let's say it was being hosted in Africa and the Spain team decided to make their lips huge, would that not be racist?
 
So pulling back your eyelids makes you believe you are superior to everyone else solely due to your race ? :roll:

I think people need to look up the definition of "racist"
 
I don't really care. Let's say we just give them the benefit of the doubt though.

The photograph, widely disseminated now by the press, was made during the preparation campaign for the Olympic Games in Beijing. ?

Jose Manuel Calderon, an icon of the national team, explains in his blog at elmundo.es that it was a wink of the sponsor, something they thought appropriate and affectionate. He is blunt: ?Whoever wants to interpret something different, totally confused.?

?It turns out that in the photo shoot for the submission of our team, one of our sponsors asked us to make, as a ?wink? to our participation in Beijing, an expression of Eastern eyes. We felt it was something appropriate and that it would always be interpreted as an affectionate gesture,? says Calderon. ?However, some European media have not looked on it well,? laments the linchpin of the national team.

Calderon denies any racist tinge in the gesture and expressed his ?great respect for the East and its people.? The Extremaduran highlighted his great personal relationship with several Chinese friends by his team in the NBA, Toronto Raptors, and recalled that the sports brand Li Ning China outfits the Spanish team as one of its sponsors.
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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Yongsta

Let's say it was being hosted in Africa and the Spain team decided to make their lips huge, would that not be racist?
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Nope, not at all.
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We should ask a black person and see how they would interpret it.
 
Originally posted by: Yongsta
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Yongsta

Let's say it was being hosted in Africa and the Spain team decided to make their lips huge, would that not be racist?
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Nope, not at all.
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We should ask a black person and see how they would interpret it.
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I don't care how a black person would interpret it. It's not racist.

goddamn PC bullcrap.
 
Originally posted by: halik
So pulling back your eyelids makes you believe you are superior to everyone else solely due to your race ? :roll:

I think people need to look up the definition of "racist"
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Anybody that answered yes to this poll doesn't even know the meaning of the word anymore.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Yongsta
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Yongsta

Let's say it was being hosted in Africa and the Spain team decided to make their lips huge, would that not be racist?
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Nope, not at all.
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We should ask a black person and see how they would interpret it.
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I don't care how a black person would interpret it. It's not racist.

goddamn PC bullcrap.
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My test is simple - can you do it in front of a person on the street and get away with it? If you can go up to an asian person on the street and do the eyelid thing and get away with it, then it's not bad. If you can go up to a black person on the street and do the big lips thing and get away with it, then it's not bad.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: halik
So pulling back your eyelids makes you believe you are superior to everyone else solely due to your race ? :roll:

I think people need to look up the definition of "racist"
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Anybody that answered yes to this poll is probably Chinese or under the age of 15.
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Originally posted by: Yongsta
My test is simple - can you do it in front of a person on the street and get away with it? If you can go up to an asian person on the street and do the eyelid thing and get away with it, then it's not bad. If you can go up to a black person on the street and do the big lips thing and get away with it, then it's not bad.
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Your example is really stupid and just more goddamn PC bullcrap. Just because somebody takes offense doesn't mean it's racist.

Do you even know what racism is?
 
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