NESN TV reporter apologizes after use of ethnic slur

I'll gladly be the meat in the Sheena McDonnell sammich.

 

People are stupid.

 

Twitter trolls are people who hate their lives and want the people they don’t like to hate theirs too.

 

I love how many people replying to that tweet ask, "Wait, what exactly are we taking offense to? Oh, that? That's a slur? Um, ok."

 

Do people not consider it a slur or not know 'guinea' is a term for an Italian?

 

Um, yeah, "guinea" is definitely a slur. Watch any mobster movie for God's sake.

 

I wonder if younger people would know about slurs directed towards Italians? I bet very few have ever heard the terms Wop or Guinea.

 

I've heard the same about some arcane (but still awful) terms for Blacks, like "spade." They've been drummed out of existence to the point where it's possible not to know they exist. But they're still slurs, and I can definitely see some people getting caught by that. It's like that poor guy at ESPN who got dragged for the "Chink in the Armour" headline about Jeremy Lin. He claimed that it never even crossed his mind, and I believe that it didn't. But that kind of doesn't matter.

 

It is just so coincidental how often these stories originate out of Boston.
Very unlucky city, I guess.

 

Only six ingredients allowed.

 

It really is the most overtly racist city in America, and so perhaps on Planet Earth. I used to like it because of its history and tolerance for drunks, but I've come around to the idea that it's a bad, bad place.

 

Wasn't NESN the channel that constantly had its Red Sox in-game female hosts fucking the players?