US Army twitter faces racism backlash for using phrase "chink in the armor"
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Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Fucking hell people get offended by anything. "Fire Retardant" is going to cause a backlash soon.
Psychoward
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block tower
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as Bill Burr said, just ignore these people on twitter or social media who get offended. idk why people pay attention to these idiots.
Chainmail would fold the wrong way causing gaps in the armor that would make a "chink" noise. Those gaps represented a vulnerability.
It dates back to like the 1500s.
cartoon_soldier
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I think the tweet wording is just off
sooperkool
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Very simply, when you wear armor and it gets a lot of sword strikes they are referred to as "chinks" enough of them in the same are will make the armor weak at that spot. Not at all racist or even confusing. People are just stupid.
markofhavoc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPnqfcAzPrw
This is a terrible quality video, but the scene from scrubs was the first thing I thought of.
This is a terrible quality video, but the scene from scrubs was the first thing I thought of.
"Chink" being an Asian slur.
Chink in Ones Armor is WAYYYY before the racial slur came "in-vogue." The tweet isn't racist. It's that stupid "PC PR Police" thing that another thread/article is talking about.
People are getting wayyyyy too sensitive about the use of certain words in certain situations and it's starting to piss me the fuck off.
If you use "chink" as a racial slur then you can expect that people will be upset. The use of the word as demonstrated in the OP is not an example of this.
If you use "chink" as a racial slur then you can expect that people will be upset. The use of the word as demonstrated in the OP is not an example of this.
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Many people have don't know alot about what Racism actually means is a disturbing fact I discovered. Truly sad times (which is what a would say if there was a comparative golden age on these issues which there clearly isn't).
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pretty much. People lack critical thinking skills and are unable to recognize context. Thus a word must be banned in all uses becuase someone somewhere used it in a racist\sexist\etc(ist?) tone somewhere.
No. No, it did not. Not at all, actually.
I can see the sentence being slightly confusing at first glance, as they don't actually say the exact phrase "chink in the armor". Padding out the sentence makes it a lot easier to misinterpret. Still not racist, but this isn't as bad as people freaking out over the exact phrasing the title suggests.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I'm offended at the offense, honestly.
Aeriscloud
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Hipster.
AnathemicOne
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Wording could be better, but the intent wasn't racist. And yes, "chink(s)" is also (rarely now) used as a derogatory term to those of Chinese descent.
jchap
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I'm offended by your offense at the offense
The Silver
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twitter is quickly becoming my most hated thing, giving so many dumbasses a platform to be loud is just making me more and more apathetic.
THE:MILKMAN
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Another example of the professionally offended brigade?
Seems to be the fashionable thing on social media currently. Problem is it spreads so fast that a bit of thought or common sense can't catch these errors quick enough and before you know it is headline news.
Seems to be the fashionable thing on social media currently. Problem is it spreads so fast that a bit of thought or common sense can't catch these errors quick enough and before you know it is headline news.
Blue Ninja
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I can't. How can people be offended by this.
lol
adamsappel
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This seems like a slippery slope.
juicyfruitas
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both sides are right and wrong.
USArmy dun fuct up by stretching out the phrase (Chink 'yada yada yada' in the Armor). If they left the phrase intact then no problemo but chopping it up the way they did makes it awkward and seemingly offensive to those too lazy to read the sentence in it's entirety.
USArmy should've known better
USArmy dun fuct up by stretching out the phrase (Chink 'yada yada yada' in the Armor). If they left the phrase intact then no problemo but chopping it up the way they did makes it awkward and seemingly offensive to those too lazy to read the sentence in it's entirety.
USArmy should've known better
ThoseDeafMutes
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Quick, somebody make a fake Japanese account and get offended about a "Nip slip" article.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Pathetic. Stop choosing to be offended, idiots.
Everything is offensive. Especially this reply.
Indrid Cold1
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This generation of wet blanket millenials with their trigger warnings and going out of the way to be offended by ANYTHING will be the death of us all I reckon one day.
Yeah, I could see a LOT of people getting unjustly fired from their jobs from these types of people.
I knew this seemed familiar.
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