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Waiting for their report edhopper Feb 2022 #1
..and white overreppresented in Hockey Demovictory9 Feb 2022 #4
Or yachting, or polo Poiuyt Feb 2022 #11
And robots in chess Polybius Feb 2022 #29
lol. Demovictory9 Feb 2022 #36
Perfect Response Mary in S. Carolina Feb 2022 #68
You beat me to it. That's just what I was thinking. brush Feb 2022 #13
We seem to have a lot of great Americans representing US. nt OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2022 #2
So? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #3
Wuh... ??? tavernier Feb 2022 #5
Congratulations on your milestone of 10,000 posts! niyad Feb 2022 #66
Thanks!! tavernier Feb 2022 #67
Shameful. Just unbelievable shit Deuxcents Feb 2022 #6
What horrid writing. blm Feb 2022 #7
How unbelievably racist Mary in S. Carolina Feb 2022 #8
Exactly! I guess we shouldn't be surprised given how right wing TNYT is nowadays. LonePirate Feb 2022 #28
Really. They are getting just as bad or worse than the NY Post...pathetic. SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #48
+1 K&R. Disgusting headline. This is why i don't waste my $ on NYT. onetexan Mar 2022 #83
Sometimes it's just not about diversity. jalan48 Feb 2022 #9
New game : "NYT headline, or Tucker Carlson monologue?" bullwinkle428 Feb 2022 #10
So what? They are Americans. Go for it! LastDemocratInSC Feb 2022 #12
Lots of White folks Hmongliberal Feb 2022 #14
the author (who for the record is Korean-American) responded Celerity Feb 2022 #15
What the fuck? vercetti2021 Feb 2022 #16
the article itself is hardly RW Celerity Feb 2022 #32
Okay. And? RockRaven Feb 2022 #17
thank you for sharing that and raising our awareness of the issue cadoman Feb 2022 #18
assholes Skittles Feb 2022 #19
They worked for it... as individuals. keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #20
Great news JI7 Feb 2022 #21
This is so racist. If Asian Americans are the best in competition... brush Feb 2022 #22
Did you actually read the article? What you are taking away from a clip job OP title is hardly a Celerity Feb 2022 #39
I read what I could before the paywall kicked in. What did you... brush Feb 2022 #44
I found both the author's replies (which I posted above) and the article itself to be satisfactory Celerity Feb 2022 #46
Thanks. I'll check them out. I must say though I have... brush Feb 2022 #60
That was not the headline, it was the OP pulling a partial quote Celerity Feb 2022 #71
As I said, it was the headline of the OP. brush Feb 2022 #72
Yes, sorry for the confusion from my end. Celerity Feb 2022 #73
"I will deffo be revisiting this colloquy when I am shown to be correct again." betsuni Feb 2022 #75
what are you on about? Celerity Feb 2022 #76
Post removed Post removed Feb 2022 #78
Some people focus ForgedCrank Feb 2022 #23
Stupidity has been overrepresented at the NYT under Dean Baquet BeyondGeography Feb 2022 #24
Gross bigoted shit. DickKessler Feb 2022 #25
You believe... Zeitghost Feb 2022 #35
Did he write the headline? My understanding is that reporters generally don't write headlines. DickKessler Feb 2022 #37
I'm not sure if he did... Zeitghost Feb 2022 #42
The headline of the OP is pure racism whoever wrote it. brush Feb 2022 #74
The sentence in the tweet Zeitghost Feb 2022 #80
By itself it certainly is. If it's the writer stating that it's the feeling... brush Feb 2022 #81
The New York Times is over-represented as being a credible source of news. Dawson Leery Feb 2022 #26
Amen Mary in S. Carolina Feb 2022 #69
Point to any language that expresses your made-up headline. brooklynite Feb 2022 #27
Uh, it's *literally* in the tweet: W_HAMILTON Feb 2022 #33
I can tell by many of the responses that most did not even bother to read the article, they Celerity Feb 2022 #34
Faux outrage at headlines Zeitghost Feb 2022 #38
lol @ 'outage olympics' Celerity Feb 2022 #40
Tell Me About It RobinA Feb 2022 #59
Yeah, guilty as charged. To be fair, the NYT tweet isn't doing the article any favors... DickKessler Feb 2022 #41
the author replied Celerity Feb 2022 #43
I knee-jerked hard at the tweet Sympthsical Feb 2022 #51
It is kind of sad treestar Feb 2022 #56
"vividly overrepresented"??? Geez. Pretty low. 58Sunliner Feb 2022 #30
How so? Zeitghost Feb 2022 #45
It's the connotation Sympthsical Feb 2022 #52
Possibly, although I don't agree Zeitghost Feb 2022 #57
I don't care who wrote the article and trying to hide behind semantics doesn't CYA. 58Sunliner Feb 2022 #55
SOOOOOO WHAT?!!! n/t Yanicosco Feb 2022 #31
I guess I think of "overrepresented" as a neutral term. BlueCheeseAgain Feb 2022 #47
Yes, very likely and my assumption. A statistical context Hortensis Feb 2022 #58
There is an immigrant group who is far more heavily represented in American sports DFW Feb 2022 #49
+1 betsuni Feb 2022 #50
+1 dalton99a Feb 2022 #54
Also "overrepresented" in figure skating: tanyev Feb 2022 #53
Clumsy people are under-represented. milestogo Feb 2022 #61
Wow. The reporter is clueless, and the NYT is really a right wing rag. Tommymac Feb 2022 #62
Similar to Women's LPGA golf madville Feb 2022 #63
The NYT's estimates can't be trusted, because all Asians probably look alike to them. Orrex Feb 2022 #64
You think that's the opinion... Zeitghost Feb 2022 #70
As a rule I do not use the sarcasm tag Orrex Feb 2022 #82
Sonja Henie (Norwegian, not US) and her generation are gone now. Sorry, the world moves on-- Hekate Feb 2022 #65
All Americans, NYTStupid. Cha Feb 2022 #77
There is nothign wrong with this. cinematicdiversions Feb 2022 #79
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