Racist Social Media Backlash on two TSN Anchors?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by SofaProfessor

Nabil has hosted a few times so people that are surprised probably don't actually watch Sportscentre that often. I think he does a great job. I've never seen the other guy to be honest. The funniest part about all of this is that these two guys are more well spoken than any of the idiots posting on Twitter about foreigners and moving to the middle east, etc.

Nabil is actually really eloquent, I like him, his delivery is really smooth and his commentary is to the point with a touch of humour.

I really like O'Toole and Onrait, but they can be a bit over the top sometimes. Their highs are high but their lows are really low too. That said, they've had me in stitches more than a few times.

Who was that sportscaster on Sportsnet that was absolutely God-Awful? I forget his name but he would always say crap like 'Top Shelf where momma keeps the cookies' and 'what a goal by the Coppernian one!'

That guy needed to be taken out back and shot.

[AR_Six]

Listen to you guys... "oh, those foreigners, they're so well spoken and eloquent"... So, what you're saying is, they don't sound brown?

Racists.

Also re: the sportsnet guy, do you mean Don Taylor? "He hits with a scowl on his face! But he also barbeques with a scowl on his face. So I wouldn't read too much into that!"

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by _Q_

Man what's more ######ed is the sheer amount of people that don't know the difference between Arab/Middle Eastern and South Asian.

The internet exposes these idiots all the time. Typically, it's the reverse though. I see people mistaking Indians and Pakistanis for Middle Easterners. Or even mixing up Arabs and Persians (as well as other Iranian groups of people).

[Locke]

Originally Posted by AR_Six

Listen to you guys... "oh, those foreigners, they're so well spoken and eloquent"... So, what you're saying is, they don't sound brown?

Racists.

Also re: the sportsnet guy, do you mean Don Taylor? "He hits with a scowl on his face! But he also barbeques with a scowl on his face. So I wouldn't read too much into that!"

They sound like Sportscasters.

And yeah, Don Taylor. I hate that guy.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

You call that racist?

You should have seen the hash tag that was floating around when Obama was elected for his second term...

Saw this on a bumpersticker in Denver:

"We have monkeys in the Denver zoo and a monkey in the Washington white house".

[_Q_]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

The internet exposes these idiots all the time. Typically, it's the reverse though. I see people mistaking Indians and Pakistanis for Middle Easterners. Or even mixing up Arabs and Persians (as well as other Iranian groups of people).

Arabs and Persians I can understand. It's inexcusable, but understandable. Both cultures are similar enough, the religions are similar and the languages look and sound similar to North Americans (though technically Farsi is more similar to English than it is to Arabic, but that's another argument altogether). Arabs and Indians/Pakistanis/Sri Lankans/Bengalis is just pure ignorance. Different cultures, religions, languages, alphabet, food, etc. That's on top of the fact that South Asians don't look Arab at all. It's like confusing an Italian with a Norwegian because they're close enough to being the same thing. In fact Italians are more similar to Scandinavians than Arabs are to South Asians.

I remember growing up, a lot of white people would be surprised when they hear that I'm Arab, because "I don't look Arab". Then I would introduce them to a bunch of other Arabs and their reaction would be something like "there's no way you guys are all Arab". It would just confirm to me that what they have in their mind as "Arab" is actually South Asian.

[PeteLFan]

Welcome to Sportscenter with your hosts Saddam and Osama made me chuckle, they can't even tell the difference between Arabs, and East Indian. Idiots.

[neo45]

There actually is a Punjabi broadcast team for Hockey Night in Canada, I've always wanted to watch and see what it is like

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Twitter was always a bad idea. I wish it would die.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Of the ones that they highlighted on yahoo I thought a lot of them weren't racist... they were racial (and not particularily amusing) but I don't consider the mere observation of race as racism unless it comes along with implicit or strongly implied sense of imparted inferiority or denegration.

As someone that does have brown skin, when I saw them on TSN I turned to my wife and said "two brown guys on SportsCenter, what has this world come too!!!"

My wife chuckled.

Of course my comments were meant to be cheap humour and nothing more. I think a few of the tweets were along the same line.

[C-COOP]

Originally Posted by _Q_

Arabs and Persians I can understand. It's inexcusable, but understandable. Both cultures are similar enough, the religions are similar and the languages look and sound similar to North Americans (though technically Farsi is more similar to English than it is to Arabic, but that's another argument altogether). Arabs and Indians/Pakistanis/Sri Lankans/Bengalis is just pure ignorance. Different cultures, religions, languages, alphabet, food, etc. That's on top of the fact that South Asians don't look Arab at all. It's like confusing an Italian with a Norwegian because they're close enough to being the same thing. In fact Italians are more similar to Scandinavians than Arabs are to South Asians.

I remember growing up, a lot of white people would be surprised when they hear that I'm Arab, because "I don't look Arab". Then I would introduce them to a bunch of other Arabs and their reaction would be something like "there's no way you guys are all Arab". It would just confirm to me that what they have in their mind as "Arab" is actually South Asian.

I think most of these tweets were meant with humour and not hatred in mind. Same jokes we would make if there were 2 white guys announcing the And1 Streetball tournament.

FYI, students are taught ZERO about Arabs and Indians/Pakistanis/Sri Lankans/Bengalis in school here. They are not even on the radar here. So instead of getting pissed off and calling people out, use it is a teaching opportunity to explain the differences.

I would not move to Pakistan then get angry at those people if they thought I was from South Carolina instead of Canada.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I've always thought the way brown people in this country embraced hockey is amazing. Watch a game in Vancouver, it's great.

btw, what's with Dome Beers and his stupidity, Locke and Jiri both mentioned him in this thread too, what's the history I'm missing?

He’s the guy that ran a campaign to have SN dump PeteL and then had the arrogance to after the fact take credit for the dismissal – and rejoice in it.

He represents everything wrong with the Internet – a guy that feels he can say anything he wants because he can hide behind his keyboard.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

He’s the guy that ran a campaign to have SN dump PeteL and then had the arrogance to after the fact take credit for the dismissal – and rejoice in it.

He represents everything wrong with the Internet – a guy that feels he can say anything he wants because he can hide behind his keyboard.

is he still on the board?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

He’s the guy that ran a campaign to have SN dump PeteL and then had the arrogance to after the fact take credit for the dismissal – and rejoice in it.

He represents everything wrong with the Internet – a guy that feels he can say anything he wants because he can hide behind his keyboard.

Yeah, ######canoe to the max.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

is he still on the board?

No we banned him.

[GirlySports]

You guys should have seen ESPN the other day, they had white guys covering NBA games.

[Stay Golden]

i have to be honest when i saw these 2 dudes Nabil and Gurdeep i thought wtf is this where are the regular guys. Where is Jay and Dan?

TSN could have put Wayne and Mario to cover the hockey and would have thought the same thing wtf is this where is Jay and Dan.

Honestly TSN had to realize they were bound to get some internet slamming and on a racist tip towards Gurdeep and Nabil.
Doesn't mean it is right but don't be naive to see that its not going to happen TSN.

Just go on youtube and look up anything & then take note of the cesspool of racist comments that exists there even though the subject has nothing to do with race.

After all this i'm still left wondering Why weren't Jay and Dan on?

[Halfcreek]

Originally Posted by _Q_

Man what's more ######ed is the sheer amount of people that don't know the difference between Arab/Middle Eastern and South Asian.

While I appreciate the sentiment of your post - using the word "######ed" as a derogatory term kind of ruins your good intentions. It may not be racists, but it is prejuduiced against people with disabilities.

[Magnum PEI]

Random people on twitter: racist.
Russel Peters/ Dave Chappelle on stage in front of thousands: hillarious.

[neo45]

Originally Posted by Magnum PEI

Random people on twitter: racist.
Russel Peters/ Dave Chappelle on stage in front of thousands: hillarious.

Comparing Dave Chappelle to Russel Peters should be illegal