Comments on: Why Does NBA TV Analyst Rick Kamla Still Have a Job After Calling Yi a “Chinaman”?

By: darren

darren — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:05:11 +0000

ha. i didn’t even know c-man was an offensive term. i guess now i know. what about calling dirk the big german? could we say the big mexican? or the big egyptian? found this site searching for rick kamla stuff cause i can’t stand him. also that jon guy at the end. oh lord.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:49:54 +0000

Just about every comment in this forum is moronic. I wish I could talk face to face with some of you idiots. Because after I was done belittling you in person and making you all feel inferior because I’m so much more intelligent than all of you, I would love to kick the shit out of all you morons. Please if any of you live in or Denver Colorado, can we meet in person? Please?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:32:07 +0000

What’s unfortunate is that this “racial standard” is not the same for things said about whites…. I could care less if whites don’t have the same history of racism against them as other cultures. What a crock of shit!!! For anyone who believes this, you truly are fucking stupid. It’s called a double standard. Race relations in America will never improve until it is taken seriously from all points of view. Not just blacks and Asians and hispancis but for whites as well.

By: greg J

greg J — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:09 +0000

It’s a bit like LeBron James saying a particular shoe that Mike Miller wears is “…a good shoe for an unathletic white guy”. The double standard is alive and well in the USA

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:24:16 +0000

Chinaman is a racial slur, especially in the U.S. Just because some of you are not aware of it, doesn’t make it a “mild” word. To most Asian Americans it is equivalent to “nigger”, but not to “honky”.

It is equivalent to “nigger” because laws were passed excluding the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S., interned at Angel Island, and even killed during the time of the gold rush.

A lot of white folks don’t find words like “honky” or “peckerwood” too offensive because there is no history of discrimination or violence behind them. So to the people who think “chinaman” is a mild word, you have to look at the history.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:19:42 +0000

Unbelievable, OG. So let me get this straight: it’s not okay to use a mild term like “Chinaman”, which you’d have to be looking for an excuse to be offended to have a problem with… but it’s totally okay to use a homophobic slur that’s 1000 times more well-known and more offensive than “Chinaman”? It’s not okay to accidentally offend Asians, but you can offend gays to your heart’s content? What the f**k, you little hypocritical piece of s**t? You just discredited any thought that we should shed tears because Kamla said “Chinaman”, if you’re going to turn around and talk s**t about homosexuals. You’re way more bigoted than Kamla ever thought about being, all of you a**holes are if you think that one is okay and the other isn’t. F**k you guys.

By: OG

OG — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:09:37 +0000

And leave it pussy bitch Mike to try and change the subject. And Josh, the girls you masturbate to don’t count as friends. Fag.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:09:23 +0000

So answer this question for me Brian Spencer: Why is it acceptable to write out a derogatory name for one race but not another? You spell ni**er while writing out Chinaman? How is that right? Stop being such a hypocrite. It was an honest mistake and no matter how many times you complain about it, you have no idea what went through his mind. And why do you deserve to be writing a blog after your slip that I mentioned but Kamla shouldn’t get a chance for saying something he wasn’t aware of. He immediately apologized for it and I, for one, believe him. Get over yourself, buddy. Write something worth reading instead of just trying to draw traffic.

By: Ryan K.

Ryan K. — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:53:03 +0000

Chinaman is not the same as Englishman and Frenchmen. Even if it were, it should be Chineseman or Englandman and Franceman, for it to add up. As stated earlier, Chinaman was used as a derogatory word.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:10:34 +0000

I think that the point people are trying to make when they say this term isn’t offensive is that they were in no way aware of its offensive connotation, because the compound word itself has a very obvious and innocuous meaning. Dutchman, Englishman and Frenchman are all fine. So there is absolutely no way that someone uneducated in racial slurs would realize that perhaps adding this suffix to his country of origin would be seen as offensive. I didn’t know it was, and i’m definitely better off now for being informed.

Clearly, it isn’t ok to refer to people in a derogatory way, but don’t get upset about ignorance, because it really isn’t my fault that I didn’t know this was a slur. I have a lot of chinese and other asian-american friends, and none of us realized this was an issue. So thank you for enlightening us, but please, do calm down.