« Reply #55 on: February 13, 2012, 04:13:28 PM »
I voted for firing. Whitlock is a writer that has made his career discussing racial injustice and stereotypes and then makes a very poor joke about it. When he is called on it and asked to apologize he comes up with perhaps the worst apology I have ever seen.
Its wasn't an apology! It was just an explanation!
Saying "Here is how and why I was a tool" is not expressing any kind of regret for your tooly-ness.
seems like an apology to me, unless the part about him being truly sorry isn't what he meant. Of course he appears to only be truly sorry for debasing a true feel good sports moment, which is why I would fire him. He just doesn't get it.
I get Linsanity. I've cried watching Tiger Woods win a major golf championship. Jeremy Lin, for now, is the Tiger Woods of the NBA. I suspect Lin makes Asian Americans feel the way I feel when I watch Tiger play golf.
I should've realized that Friday night when I watched Lin torch the Lakers. For Asian Americans and a lot of sports fans, his nationally televised 38-point outburst was the equivalent of Tiger's first victory in The Masters. I got caught up in the excitement. I tweeted about what a great story Lin is and how he could rival Tim Tebow.
I then gave in to another part of my personality — my immature, sophomoric, comedic nature. It's been with me since birth, a gift from my mother and honed as a child listening to my godmother's Richard Pryor albums. I still want to be a standup comedian.
The couple-inches-of-pain tweet overshadowed my sincere celebration of Lin’s performance and the irony that the stereotype applies to pot-bellied, overweight male sports writers, too. As the Asian American Journalist Association pointed out, I debased a feel-good sports moment. For that, I’m truly sorry.
Those words generally qualify as an apology - though I guess the level of sincerity is subjective to the intended recipient (s).
I'm not sure why you quoted me. I mean I think I pretty clearly indicate I think it is an apology, just a bad one.
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