The Atlantic Mocks LA Times For Blowing Up Chow/Carroll Twitter "Controversy"
The Atlantic rips Chris Foster for not disclosing Carroll's entire tweet which would have made clear how stupid their headline was implying Carroll had launched a racial attack on Norm Chow:
"Truly bizarre for the LAT to censor the offending term, since it probably resulted in a lot of people assuming that Carroll had used a different racial epithet."
Of course this will not prevent the Times writers from launching future stupid attacks against the UCLA football program.
GO BRUINS.
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Isn't this the second time?
the Trojan Times has been called out by and East Coast publication for their blatant bias against us? Is anybody at the Morgan Center keeping track of this?
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden
PS just to show how misleading the Slimes can be
I had lunch with a classmate who in fact only knew of the incident through their coverage and in fact, thought Carroll had made a remark disparaging to people of Chinese descent.
When I corrected him he sat there befuddled and claimed, “The Times makes it seem like Carroll had . . . . Why would the Times do that?”
Why indeed.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden
What this shows above all
Is insidious, poison-like nature of political correctness, whereby an “offensive” term is censored and not even remotely clarified, thus putting the whole thing completely out of context. I, too, thought the word must’ve been something in reference to Asian or Polynesian.
In fact it was neither offensive nor “racial” in the context it was used.
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