Sigh. It’s like I’m back in grade school.
The Spanish Olympic Basketball team (aka “assholes”) posed for this ridiculous picture in which they all pulled the skin back around their eyes… In some circles, this is known as giving someone the “chink eye.” It’s difficult to explain how offensive this gesture is, but for those of you who don’t know, suffice it to say, it’s fucking awful. Apparently the Spanish press is still trying to defend the picture, basically saying it was all in good fun and that it was an affectionate gesture. Affectionate my ass! The only other thing they could’ve done to make it worse is if they were holding up signs that said “Ching Chong!” or “We Love Chinks” or some shit like that. Why is it so difficult for these people to realize they fucked up and just apologize? How many offended people does it take for something like this to be considered wrong? A billion??
Speaking of a billion people, apparently China hasn’t responded officially to the picture, but the Spanish basketball team was “booed vigorously” by the Chinese crowd during the China-Spain game. No idea if that was due to the picture or not, though…
I hope those Spanish basketball players get their asses kicked all over the place when they play the US basketball team on 8/16.
UPDATE: Turns out the Spanish women’s basketball team also participated in this “chink eye” nonsense:
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February 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm |
Yes Spain is full of racists. It’s part of society, although not everyone is racist.
England played Spain at football last night, and for the past 2 weeks – all over the papers is the worry that the few black players in the England side would be subjected to the racist monkey chants that they were during the last England match played in Spain.
Lewis Hamilton, the world Formula 1 driving champ is black, and was subjected to racist taunting when racing and winning in Spain. Spanish officials said that he should expect it because he’s beating a Spanish driver.
OH, OK then! Pathetic.