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Fox: Fair and Balanced and when it comes to Asians and sports, a little racist

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Double Down, Sep 3, 2011.

  1. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Yeahhhhh.

    That wasn't a well-conceived idea.

    Now, if they'd done it with French students ...

    (I keed, I keed.)
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Even the joke was poorly executed. Everybody from California knows there are more Asians at Cal or UCLA than at USC. :D

    Anybody involved with that piece should be fired.
     
  3. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    Anyone who had anything to do with the production or airing of that segment ought to be fired. Jeez... who thought that was okay???
     
  4. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Maybe they are saving UCLA for a segment on the Mexicans.

    Who are the realiest, real Americans anyway? Dutch? English? Irish?
     
  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Alaskan-Americans.
     
  6. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Iron Eyes Cody sheds another tear.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    buh.. buh... buh... they apologized and everything...

    http://deadspin.com/5837131/fox-sports-apologizes-to-the-entire-usc-community-for-segment-that-singled-out-uscs-asian-students
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Someone should find the guy from Fox who came up with this and make pee pee in his Coke.
     
  9. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Wonder if Brian Kilmeade and Dubya had a good laugh with it Friday when they teed it up live on F and F for Patriot Golf Day.
     
  10. printdust

    printdust New Member

    Hey, those good Asians help finance the social lives of many USC football players. Leave them alone.
     
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Props to Fox Sports for giving the show a Shanghai Surprise....From LAT:

    Fox Sports has canceled "The College Experiment" after the show aired a Pac-12 segment, shot at USC, that critics say mocked Asian students.

    The segment was "clearly offensive and inconsistent with the standards FOX Sports believes in, and we sincerely regret that it appeared," Fox Sports Network spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said in a statement. He said the show would be canceled immediately.

    The segment was first reported by the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colo., and quoted an ethnic-studies professor as saying that the segment was demeaning to millions of Asian Americans and perpetuates negative stereotypes of the minority group as foreigners.

    D'Ermilio said the network is taking steps to make sure an "incident of this nature is not repeated in the future."
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Nine times out of 10, I think people overreact and are hypersensitive about some of the stuff that "offends" people...

    This was not one of those times. This was a "WTF were you thinking?"
     
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