Spanish Basketball = Dumbasses

[MrRant 0]

 

 

Spanish basketball team poses for offensive picture

 

By Chris Chase

 

Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes, a move that will likely offend their Olympic hosts, Asians across the world and anybody with a shred of intelligence. The ads, for a Spanish courier company, appeared in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca.

 

More offensive than the actual gesture is the stupidity of the ad directors, photographers, players and Spanish Basketball Federation, whose logo appears in the ad. Did it not occur to anyone that it might not be a good idea to mock an entire continent before the world's largest athletic competition that, by the way, happens to take place on that continent. Were they not aware of an invention called "the Internet" that allows pictures taken in Spain to be transmitted all over the world for the eyes of everyone?

 

Interestingly, the Spanish basketball team took on China tonight, winning 85-75 in overtime. No word on whether Pau Gasol was on the receiving end of any elbows from Yao Ming.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/b...?urn=oly,100152

 

It would have been better if it was a commercial and they were also singing along to the Siamese Cat Song from "Lady and the Tramp".

[Kinetic 0]

This story was getting a lot of play on sports talk radio this morning. Dan Patrick raised the question of whether it would be a bigger story if they were mocking black players (yes). Colin Cowherd somehow managed to turn it into a 45 minute diatribe on how the American media hates successful people ("CEOs, pug-nosed ESPN radio show hosts, President Bush...") and wants us all to believe that Europeans are both more sophisticated than us and too backwards to realize that this would be considered offensive. Oh, do I ever hate Colin Cowherd. Everything comes back around to his fear that rich white men are being targeted and are rapidly becoming an endangered species. And he uses way too many stripper analogies. "LeBron James is like the one really hot stripper at a rundown, hole-in-the-wall joint in Akron, okay? He just is." What a tard.

 

Anyway, I don't think we should spend too much time trying to figure out why there's so little outrage over this. Let's just be thankful for it and move on.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I think there's very little outrage about this because Hispanic cultures tend to be much more politically incorrect in general, and racist and sexist jokes are usually not a big deal, they're just jokes. I know most women I'm acquainted with here and in California would be horrified at the amount of sexual harassment that goes on at the workplace in Miami, and I'd imagine that's a pretty similar thing with a lot of Western European countries (in particular the Iberian countries, France, and Italy).

[The Niggardly King 0]

it's one of the reasons why I love the spanish people

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

This story was getting a lot of play on sports talk radio this morning. Dan Patrick raised the question of whether it would be a bigger story if they were mocking black players (yes). Colin Cowherd somehow managed to turn it into a 45 minute diatribe on how the American media hates successful people ("CEOs, pug-nosed ESPN radio show hosts, President Bush...") and wants us all to believe that Europeans are both more sophisticated than us and too backwards to realize that this would be considered offensive. Oh, do I ever hate Colin Cowherd. Everything comes back around to his fear that rich white men are being targeted and are rapidly becoming an endangered species. And he uses way too many stripper analogies. "LeBron James is like the one really hot stripper at a rundown, hole-in-the-wall joint in Akron, okay? He just is." What a tard.

 

Anyway, I don't think we should spend too much time trying to figure out why there's so little outrage over this. Let's just be thankful for it and move on.

I can only hope that it didn't take you four years to figure that out. I figured out he was a cretin the first day he debuted on ESPN Radio, when he spent his whole first segment slurping football, and talking about how much he drank at the troth of the NFL.

 

[Kinetic 0]

I had actually never listened to one second of sports talk radio until a little over a year ago, when I was laid up with an illness and had no other way to follow the NBA playoffs. I'm sort of hooked now and I generally find it to be not unpleasant, but Cowherd is just awful. Not Stephen A. Smith awful, but terrible nonetheless. I was listening to him one morning and I think I came into it in a bad mood; maybe a hangover, I really don't remember. Anyway, he went from telling me that I don't really care about any teams other than the Patriots, Cowboys, Yankees, Red Sox, and Lakers to telling me that Arrested Development sucked because no one watched it. The whole "no one cares about your small-market team" argument is one of those things in sports that pisses me off to no end, and tossing in a totally unnecessary series of insults towards a show I hold in very high regard was salt in the wound. I wanted to throw the radio out the window.

[Guest]

The Spanish sporting community as a whole has repeatedly demonstrated that their tolerance for other races is stuck somewhere in the last century.

 

I mean, I think it's funny, but the Spanish have a reputation on the international stage for widespread racism, whether it comes from their fans, coaches, or players. I know this was a joke and all, they've done FAR worse over just the last five years.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

It would have been better if it was a commercial and they were also singing along to the Siamese Cat Song from "Lady and the Tramp".

 

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

The Spanish sporting community as a whole has repeatedly demonstrated that their tolerance for other races is stuck somewhere in the last century.

 

I mean, I think it's funny, but the Spanish have a reputation on the international stage for widespread racism, whether it comes from their fans, coaches, or players. I know this was a joke and all, they've done FAR worse over just the last five years.

 

Yeah, aren't Spanish crowds basically notorious for making monkey noises at black soccer players?

[Guest]

Throwing bananas at them too...

 

They don't do that one nearly as often as making monkey noises at players. Europe as a whole is pretty far behind in their race relations in comparison to the US. Spanish crowds aren't the only ones to have those sort of displays, but they are more prevalent in Spain than they are elsewhere. Italy's pretty close.

[Kinetic 0]

Yeah, aren't Spanish crowds basically notorious for making monkey noises at black soccer players?

 

If that's the case, then I want Pau Gasol answering to whoever the Chinese equivalent of Al Sharpton is on whatever the Chinese equivalent of the Don Imus show is ASAP.

[The Niggardly King 0]

that's a whole lot of chinks to answer to

[Guest Vitamin X]

To prove my point earlier about this, here's:

The Spanish WOMEN'S basketball team, not to be outdone by their male counterparts. And

The Spanish Women's Tennis team and let's not leave out

The Argentinian Women's Soccer team as well.

 

See what I mean?