Nice headline, NBC

[pokerfan]

:puke:

http://deadspin.com/5474122/nbcolympicscoms-headline-for-japans-win-over-us-in-curling

[boobooday]

1. OH NO THEY DIDN'T

For crying out loud . . .

[provis99]

2. that has to have been deliberate...

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Geezus

[Motown_Johnny]

4. maybe it was all the women wearing tight shirts in the cold air and not something ethnic

maybe......

[Renew Deal]

5. lol

:rofl:

I can't believe someone would actually do that.

[virgogal]

6. God-WWII redux.

[MichaelHarris]

7. man I'm getting dumber by the minute

my first thought was cold, ice, nipples. You get my point.

[hlthe2b]

8. Wait until the Chinese prevail: "CHOP CHOP!"

:eyes:

Don't these papers have editors anymore?

[lbrtbell]

9. What's even scarier

I'm into Asian music, so I frequent forums where there are a lot of young Asian people, including many Japanese-Americans. They use the shorthand "jap" to mean "Japanese", like "jap version of that CD", or whatever.

I'm white, and I cringe when I see this, and have often commented on how that's really insulting, and would prefer to see the abbreviation I use, "Jpn".

They have no problem with the words "jap" or "nip", which completely boggles my mind. Amazing how the only person on these forums who gets offended by these terms is me.

It's like WWII never happened. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted that our countries aren't feuding, and that we're pretty much allies now. But I do think that offensive terms should remain offensive, you know? :(

[Berry Cool]

11. Actually, the headline was probably written by someone of that age.

Said person, if you pointed to it and said "How could you do this??" would say "How could I do what?"

"How could you put 'nips' in a headline about Japan?"

"Why not? 'Nips'--it means "just barely beats,' right? Just barely outpoints, right?"

"Uh, yeah. But it can also be taken as an ethnic slur."

"It can?"

"Yeah. Against Japanese people."

"Oh. Really?"

"You've never heard of the term 'Nipponese' before?"

"No."

*sigh* "Do you know that during World War II, Americans used to say 'Jap' and 'Nip' as a derogatory term for the Japanese enemy?"

"No...not really...I mean, like, that was like soooooo long ago. Like, even before my grandparents' time."

"Oh."

[pokerfan]

12. That's either a good thing or a bad thing

For me, WWII was my parent's war.

[piratefish08]

10. Doh!

[Parker CA]

13. Wow. That's just disgusting. nt.