Comments on: “Fright 214”: Subliminal Racism In Chicago Sun-Times Headline? [UPDATE]

By: Martin D.

Martin D. — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:10:11 +0000

Subriminar Lacism is entilely possibre

By: Markoff

Markoff — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:36:59 +0000

what does it have t do with rascism???

1. Chinese have problems to pronounce strong R, so if they would like to make fun about chinglish I would expect different joke
2. I guess author of this piece never heard about word “frightening” which the flight was for sure

By: Chinese Netizen

Chinese Netizen — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 05:43:17 +0000

I’m not “Asian-American”, not PC, not overly sensitive and I love to take the piss out of most anything but this one is kind of uncool.

By: bag-o-dicks

bag-o-dicks — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 03:58:07 +0000

I’ve said it before, Asian Americans are the most insanely oversensitive group on the planet. You really believe that a newspaper might make fun of an Asian accent in a story such as this? REALLY?

It’s almost impossible to believe anyone could be so stupid but… happens quite a lot.

By: Jake the Muss!

Jake the Muss! — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 03:24:40 +0000

It is clearly a pun. WTF is wrong with Antony?

By: Matt-G

Matt-G — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:55:17 +0000

Its a normal journalist pun, normally used by tabloids. It maybe a little in bad taste, but its completely normal and not a spelling mistake. Fright just means terror, or frightening experience, so its a normal play of words using the flight number of the aeroplane.

By: dongchenger

dongchenger — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:48:01 +0000

I see it as a play on flight/fright… “fright” meaning to suffer a scary incident.

By: Sinotwat

Sinotwat — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:16:07 +0000

Not what your daft headline suggests though, is it?

By: Anthony Tao

Anthony Tao — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:42:07 +0000

>> I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt whoever wrote the headlines didn’t pull that much of a dick move on this tragedy. You realize that's pretty much exactly what I said.

By: Jay K.

Jay K. — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:37:01 +0000

really, an apology? are we to the point now of being oversensitive, that the first thing one looks at at this type of tragedy is: Asians thinking just because this was an airline owned by an Asian company in which two Asian females died, the people @ Chicago Sun Times thought “oh hey wouldn’t it be funny if we switched the L to an R” That’s some dark humor, morbid racism at best.

I really don’t know if it was done on purpose to be racist, but I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt whoever wrote the headlines didn’t pull that much of a dick move on this tragedy.

Get your head out of your ass