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    MSG posts regretful graphic on New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin

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    MSG posts regretful graphic on New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin
    2/15/2012
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    MSG Network might be the next media entity to apologize for a regretful reaction to the success of the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin.

    After Lin led the Knicks to a 100-85 win over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday, the network displayed a graphic featuring the point guard. Lin’s face was posted above a broken fortune cookie with the words “The Knicks Good Fortune” on a sheet of paper.


    MSG network posted a racially insensitive graphic of New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. (MSG Network image)
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  2. 02-15-12 11:18 PM #2
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    I would know not to do that if it was my call at MSG network.

    What are these people thinking?
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    we live in such a pussy world wtf is wrong with this
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    Ya know what, that's not a problem, and I don't think there was any ill intent. What's wrong with a fortune cookie? Who doesn't love fortune cookies?
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    Can see it on the back page of the Post

    lol
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    couple days ago on espn some chinaman said it was offensive when a journalist described Lin as "shifty", citing that it was historically used to describe Asians in the past

    nevermind the adjective fits perfectly for him, worry that it could be seen as the subtlest most unoffensive stereotype ever

    good example of the totally insane pc marxist culture that has destroyed the West beyond comprehension
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    Quote Originally Posted by dfish View Post
    Can see it on the back page of the Post lol
    yesterday was the first reference to his race

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  10. 02-16-12 05:21 AM #10
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    The insanity is unreal

    Its Superbowl media at MSG

    Signs all over the place..never saw anything like it at MSG
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    Quote Originally Posted by KingJD31 View Post
    we live in such a pussy world wtf is wrong with this
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?


    As long as it accompanied. Watermelon and Grape kool aide

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    Or maybe an Irish guy over a burning car.
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    i think brian scalabrainie and jeremy lin are both superheros. they are off the charts cool
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  15. 02-16-12 06:32 AM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?

    Is it better to distort reality?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?


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    It's funny to see how almost everything about Lin winds up having a racist overtone to it and most people think it's fine. Listening to a talk radio station in Dallas yesterday and they spent 10 minutes on making up their own Lin-related headlines and almost all of them had to do with Asian food or things very stereotypical of Asians.

    If something like this was done with a black player as said, f-ing Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and every other kook would be outraged. Guess the Asians need to get themselves a crazy ass spokesperson to express their outrage about the Lin-isms.
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  18. 02-16-12 06:55 AM #18
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    kinda stupid when lin literally made them $24 mil over night...

    it's like calling a muslim, he's the bomb and putting his face on a bomb. or saying to a black dude, good looking out and putting his face on a chicken. or calling a jew, he's tight and putting his face on a penny. or calling a hispanic, juan shot and putting his face on a tequila worm. i could go on and on. it just proves people are racist...
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    MSG is exempt from asian racism due to being named after the preservative that is loaded in Chinese Food.
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  20. 02-16-12 07:00 AM #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghenghis Kahn View Post
    kinda stupid when lin literally made them $24 mil over night...

    it's like calling a muslim, he's the bomb and putting his face on a bomb. or saying to a black dude, good looking out and putting his face on a chicken. or calling a jew, he's tight and putting his face on a penny. or calling a hispanic, juan shot and putting his face on a tequila worm. i could go on and on. it just proves people are racist...
    Explain the black guy reference with the phrase " good looking out"
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  21. 02-16-12 07:08 AM #21
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    what's wrong with acknowledging we have differences?
    that pic did go a little "beantownjim" so it was dumb to run it
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    As usual, the term racist is being tossed around unjustly. Unfortunately, doing so waters the term down so much that it loses it's effectiveness in cases where it is actually true.
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    Quote Originally Posted by milwaukee mike View Post
    what's wrong with acknowledging we have differences?
    that pic did go a little "beantownjim" so it was dumb to run it


    LOL, good example. That is a perfect example of a racist p.o.s.


    Posting a pic of Lin with a fortune cookie is not racist. It is probably racially insensitive, but not racist. There is a big difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?

    Well we know the groids are sensitive sir.
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    I'd lay 10-1 that Lin was not offended and instead laughed his ass off when he saw this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by balls2wall View Post
    LOL, good example. That is a perfect example of a racist p.o.s.


    Posting a pic of Lin with a fortune cookie is not racist. It is probably racially insensitive, but not racist. There is a big difference.
    BeantownJim rules.
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    Sorry, but that is not racially insensitive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?

    It would be OK if black people had "fortune drumsticks" as part of their culture. What a stupid comparison.

    Lin has brought the Knicks good fortune, so the reference to the fortune cookie is clever and appropriate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
    Then I assume putting a black player over a piece of fried chicken would be ok for you too?

    that would be funny as shit
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  31. 02-16-12 08:00 AM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by M.W. View Post
    It would be OK if black people had "fortune drumsticks" as part of their culture. What a stupid comparison.

    Lin has brought the Knicks good fortune, so the reference to the fortune cookie is clever and appropriate.
    Fortune cookies are about as much a part of Chinese Culture as you are part of the MENSA society you nit wit.
    You would be crying bloody murder if someone put Cam Newton's head popping out of a watermelon but since it is someone of Chinese descent this is justifiable to you.

    History Lesson for short bus students (and I think you qualify) :

    As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern Fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion. This kind of cookie is called tsujiura senbei (辻占煎餅?) and are still sold in some regions of Japan,[2] notably the neighborhood of Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto.[3]
    Most of the people who claim to have introduced the cookie to the United States are Japanese, so the theory is that these bakers were modifying a cookie design which they were aware of from their days in Japan.
    Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.[4][5][6]
    David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.[7] San Francisco's mock Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.[7]
    Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie.[8] Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Thus Kito's main claim is that he is responsible for the cookie being so strongly associated with Chinese restaurants.[citation needed]
    Up to around World War II, fortune cookies were known as "fortune tea cakes" -- likely reflecting their origins in Japanese tea cakes.[2]
    Fortune cookies moved from being a confection dominated by Japanese-Americans to one dominated by Chinese-Americans sometime around World War II. One theory for why this occurred is because of the Japanese American internment during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. This gave an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers.[2]
    Fortune cookies before the early 20th century, however, were all made by hand. The fortune cookie industry changed dramatically after the fortune cookie machine was invented by Shuck Yee from Oakland, California.[9] The machine allowed for mass production of fortune cookies which subsequently allowed the cookies to drop in price to become the novelty and courtesy dessert many Americans are familiar with after their meals at most Chinese restaurants today.
    [edit] Chinese legend

    Rumors that fortune cookies were invented in China are seen as false.[1] In 1989, fortune cookies were reportedly imported into Hong Kong and sold as "genuine American fortune cookies".[1] Wonton Food attempted to expand its fortune cookie business into China in 1992, but gave up after fortune cookies were considered "too American".[1]
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  32. 02-16-12 08:05 AM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by EmpireMaker View Post
    Fortune cookies are about as much a part of Chinese Culture as you are part of the MENSA society you nit wit.
    You would be crying bloody murder if someone put Cam Newton's head popping out of a watermelon but since it is someone of Chinese descent this is justifiable to you.

    History Lesson for short bus students (and I think you qualify) :

    As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern Fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion. This kind of cookie is called tsujiura senbei (辻占煎餅?) and are still sold in some regions of Japan,[2] notably the neighborhood of Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto.[3]
    Most of the people who claim to have introduced the cookie to the United States are Japanese, so the theory is that these bakers were modifying a cookie design which they were aware of from their days in Japan.
    Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.[4][5][6]
    David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.[7] San Francisco's mock Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.[7]
    Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie.[8] Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Thus Kito's main claim is that he is responsible for the cookie being so strongly associated with Chinese restaurants.[citation needed]
    Up to around World War II, fortune cookies were known as "fortune tea cakes" -- likely reflecting their origins in Japanese tea cakes.[2]
    Fortune cookies moved from being a confection dominated by Japanese-Americans to one dominated by Chinese-Americans sometime around World War II. One theory for why this occurred is because of the Japanese American internment during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. This gave an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers.[2]
    Fortune cookies before the early 20th century, however, were all made by hand. The fortune cookie industry changed dramatically after the fortune cookie machine was invented by Shuck Yee from Oakland, California.[9] The machine allowed for mass production of fortune cookies which subsequently allowed the cookies to drop in price to become the novelty and courtesy dessert many Americans are familiar with after their meals at most Chinese restaurants today.
    [edit] Chinese legend

    Rumors that fortune cookies were invented in China are seen as false.[1] In 1989, fortune cookies were reportedly imported into Hong Kong and sold as "genuine American fortune cookies".[1] Wonton Food attempted to expand its fortune cookie business into China in 1992, but gave up after fortune cookies were considered "too American".[1]

    Well isn't Lin American? Nice piece about the fortune cookie yo but still don't see a problem.
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    Fortune cookies are about as much a part of Chinese Culture as you are part of the MENSA society you nit wit.
    Excuse me, asshole -- Chinese-AMERICAN culture. Chinese-Americans present the fortune cookie as part of their culture. We have every right to believe them. If you don't think so, there is something seriously wrong with you.
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    As long as the next 2 graphics are Steve Novak next to a pile of cheese, and Carmelo Anthony over a bucket of KFC, everything is forgiven.
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    Yeah fortune cookies are definitely not Chinese. At least not to people from China. Melbourne is full of authentic Chinese restaurants - not the sweet and sour chicken and egg roll kind of places in North America - and I've never received a fortune cookie. Only time I've seen them is in the fake foreign section in the grocery store.

    But then again, Lin was born in the US so maybe he'd find humour in it? Still not the brightest move to display that though.
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