Comments on: Spain’s Basketball Team Does the Fucked Up Slanty Eye Thing

By: wanghenta

wanghenta — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:17:27 +0000

Get over it guys. I am sure you have greater things to worry about.

By: antonio_spain

antonio_spain — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:48:14 +0000

I guess that the gesture was made to show affinity with the chinese people. If someone else (i.e. anglo-saxons) used the gesture to ofend you, who is the racist, the one that pretended to ofend or the one that pretended to show affinity?.
If a child uses an ofensive word without knowing about the ofensive meaning of that word, is it ignorance or inocence?
You think that all the world must know about your sad history in the United States of America, so you may have been driven to their egocentric way of thinking.

By: augofe

augofe — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:12:22 +0000

Hi, I am Spanish. I am very sorry that a lot of ignorant people wasn't able to understand a common gesture here in Spain. Have you idiots ever heard of cultural difference? The gesture of the Spanish nat team is not considered racist here, in Spain. Furthermore, it implies sympathy for the Asian culture. If you don't believe me, why don't you inform yourselves before criticising and insulting us? Ask the huge Asian community in Spain. Did they get offended? Absolutely not. What is more insulting is that all the unrespectful comments that I have read come precisely from racist people who consider themselves best because they are WASPS. Fuck you all, bloody basterds!

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By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:03:07 +0000

Shit… I said I was drunk and I pushed submit. ….mindless um whatever I forget. But I see the damage that can be done when a person is subjected to hurtful derision. I love cookies mmmmmmm

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:54:57 +0000

Aren’t slanted eyes, in all their slantiness, a derivative of Northern Siberian/Eskimo/Innuit genetic inheritance. The “squintyiness” would prevent snow blindness and give an advantage to those people with slanted eyes. This is my opinion based on drunken memory snippets so don’t bite my head off please. I would like to add that as a white dude in America I have rejected the onslaught of mindless

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:15:37 +0000

@mmmkay: Not at all surprised that Filipinos would do that to you. Chinese have been a minority in the Philippines for a long time, and there are a number of jokes and rather nasty sayings about Chinese in Tagalog. Filipinos will also refer to slanted eyes as “chinky eyes” – I kid you not – although they usually stop once they learn about the context of “chinky” here in the US.

By: MiMi

MiMi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:08:44 +0000

Ooops…that last comment was full of errors.. Heh heh. Oh well! Ya’ll know what I mean! (I hope!)

By: MiMi

MiMi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:07:20 +0000

One of the Argentinian olympic teams did the slanty eye thing, too. I’m convinced that some people on this earth allow the spirit of stupidity and ignorance RULE them.

And I’m sorry, but one of the reasons Asian Americans are such a big target is because ya’ll can’t even make up your minds whether passive or aggressive when someone insults you! Some will say forget it, some won’t and the wheels spin until you get insulted again, then the process of ‘what should we feel and what to do about it, if anything’ starts all over again. They do it because they can get away with it because ya’ll will say little to do nothing, and probably do even less. Period.

I’ll be soooo glad when I see some white hot lightening attitude of “This sucks, we’re not gonna take it anymore, it’s wrong and **** YOU!’ Come out of the Asian American community. I’m telling you, I will, cause ya’ll are TOO NICE, when it comes to situations like this.

By: Mmmkay

Mmmkay — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:48:40 +0000

As a Chinese growing up in Canada, I was also the victim of the eyelid-pull, “ching chong ching chong” taunts. It wasn’t from white people, but – get this – OTHER ASIANS (Filipinos, to be exact). What… the… fuck. Just goes to show that idiots come in all races and colors.