OK, given the recent JLin/ESPN firestorm and the clinically insane tweets of Jenny Hyun, perhaps a bit of levity and humor is in order.
Normally I’d find something like this beyond offensive. And it is. Perhaps why I’m not up in arms is because FINALLY we have a bad-ass, kick-ass, Asian American male throwing down in the NBA in which to place opposite what was once the dominant stereotype of Asian American dudes. End result? Clash of past ideals with a F’in cool image of the asian american male of our future (which has always been present but benched by the media).
my mind works like this too. when I'm changing diapers, that is...
Thank you Chinese guy and Indian guy of Studio64Comedy for making this and Offending with such panache. Hope neither of you gets ESPN’d.
The Jeremy Lin Effect Affects…
(link via Leonard Wu. Thanks)
Funny but the funniest part is when you called Jeremy Lin “Badass” -um he’s really dorky. Dorky is good, dorky is fine, but… HE’S A DORK. HE’S GOT GAME BUT HE’S A DORK.
I believe the term would be “adorkable”
He’s a badass dork. What’s wrong with that?
the balls in the filmmakers’ court now to get Justin Lin’s 442nd movie out to show the real badasses.
“I wear my band-aid down, OK?” Hysterical.
“Superior intellect?” Considering how whites have ALWAYS tried to downgrade black players with terms like “natural” skills, or “born with it,” I think it’s offensive for someone to post a video in 2012 trying to imply that African American athletes are intellectually deficient.
You want to praise Lin, go ahead. But leave the race-baiting out of it…if you can.
@Brent The only intellect that video is superior to is –wait for it– yours. You got the video AND the title all wrong. It’s self-deprecating to the point of prob pissing off humor-less Asians or befuddled trolls. *smh*