“I didn’t know what the word meant at the time”. That’s.... a new one. https://t.co/liet97VG5o
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) March 10, 2021
"Fucking k*ke bitch": Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard uses anti-Semitic slur during 'Call Of Duty: Warzone' live stream on Twitch #BecauseMiami: https://t.co/kPOtmwiVzT pic.twitter.com/awOXFN5wO7
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) March 9, 2021
Time to get the scoreboard out: pic.twitter.com/NYTzGqUGR5
— 🏀⃤🔥⃤🏈⃤🐬⃤ (@MajinTua) March 10, 2021
Yet he used it in the right context.... So he knew what it meant.
— Kyle Wandel (@Kyle_Wandel) March 10, 2021
This is known as the Wayne Hennessey defense https://t.co/gFyg3Lttz7
— John Cavanagh (@jdcava) March 10, 2021
I'm gonna need a reporter to ask him what he *thought* it meant
— JKD (@jaykaydee) March 10, 2021
2 comments:
strange but true: BBRef uses an auto-generator filename format for its player pages based on the first five letters of the last name and the first two letters of the first name, followed by a two digit number to distinguish between players (e.g., David Ortiz is ortizda01). Unfortunately, they didn't realize immediately what the result would be for Kevin Youkilis, and it wasn't until 2007 that someone notified the sight of this inadvertent ethnic slur. (It didn't help that Youkilis is also Jewish.)
In 2021, you'd have to live under a rock not to realize that it's a slur. Maybe that's where Leonard resides?
I remember that well. I can't believe it was 13-14 years ago!
I assume I blogged about it, but there are a lot of posts from 2007.
I'm sad my "Sultan of Sweat" nickname for him never took off.
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