On ESPN this morning Take first, Co-host Stephen A. Smith apologized for his comments about Angels player Masahira Otani on the show yesterday:
This Comment yesterday Focusing on Smith’s point of view, even though Otani is both a pitcher and a batter, he is not suitable for being a public image in baseball because of his race rather than his continued use of translation:
“I know that in terms of participation, baseball itself is an international sport, but when you talk about the audience being attracted to the subway or baseball stadium, when you actually watch you, I don’t think the number one face will help a guy who needs translation. , So you can understand what he is talking about in this country(.)”
Later that day, Smith provided clarification:
Regarding my previous comment on Ohtani pic.twitter.com/FM0vnDDXBB
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) July 12, 2021
It turns out that this is not enough, so apologize today.
Except for the standard denial of reality Recent violent attacks Against Asians-please pay attention to Smith’s comments (“…have to deal with anti-Asian things that are happening; this country has been permeated with hatred of Asians for the past few years-we all know to some extent why In this way”)-the entire episode is full of the taste of complete failure, because those who yelled, in order to use the most effective weapon to correctly deal with this kind of moment, let go of butthurt’s tweets. That is, laughter.
The art of satirizing stereotypes to expose its absurd nature was beautifully done in the Oakland A ad a few years ago. With Yoenis Céspedes as the protagonist, I will never forgive A for trading for Jon Lester (but that’s another story):
As Dave Chappelle recently discussed with Joe Rogan, laughter can disarm an enemy, even if it empowers the person who laughs:
All it takes is a semi-creative advertising agency, and Ohtani is interested in adding more zeros to his bank account balance to completely eliminate any and all notions that he cannot be a baseball face. If the Angels, despite the presence of Otani and the currently injured Mike Trout, are still a club with more than 0.500 goals, chasing the Astros and Team A forever.
Race, especially for young fans, is not an obstacle to embrace. The number of children wearing Fernando Tatis Jr. jerseys has steadily increased, and they may not care that he is from the Dominican Republic, not to mention that if they are a product of public education, 99.44% of them will definitely not find it (or for that matter San Diego) on the map on. They love him because he hits a lot of home runs, swings his bat, and exudes pure joy. The principle of guiding girls and Disney princesses is the same, and Disney has not been able to master this principle. It doesn’t matter if the girl is white, black, brown, yellow, red or any other color. It doesn’t matter if the princess is white, black, brown, yellow, red or any other hue. Girls like princesses with magic. Period. nothing else matters.
Is Smith wrong? Yes it is. Is it shorts worth knotting? Again, no. Once again, we see that the Perpetual Disturbance Association lacks a sense of humor and is omnipresent incapable of handling so many things, as if someone looked sideways at them.Instead, they feel the need to embrace endless anger and hurt cost, Boring doctrine Instead of appropriate response. In other words, just laugh it off, and then continue with all other things besides the game. When all this is on the table, there is nothing but cancel the culture and continue to eat its own things.
