Today's jaw-droppingly racist Jeremy Lin tweet

[KamaAina]

Looks like Jason "a couple inches of pain" Whitlock has been beaten at his own game by a high school recruit.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/top-maryland-football-recruit-offers-incredibly-offensive-jeremy-161733403.html

Stefon Diggs spent most of his high school career being lauded as one of the nation's top football recruits. By the time the Good Counsel (Md.) School defensive star and top-10 Rivals.com overall prospect (he's projected to play wide receiver in college) picked Maryland as his college destination, he had attracted the attention of nearly every school and major football fan in the country.

With that experience in his back pocket, one would think that Diggs would be well versed in the threat posed by unchecked social media postings. However, as this rather offensive tweet about Jeremy Lin dug up by Larry Brown Sports proves, one would be wrong to give Diggs that benefit of the doubt.

"Jeremy Lin egg roll and dumplings"? Really Stefon? That's arguably an even more offensive version of the offensive genitalia joke first used by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock (also on Twitter). It plays into the same stereotypes as the ESPN employees who were suspended and fired for using an offensive cliche on the air and in a headline, even though they claim they honestly didn't even think of any racially insensitive overtones before the comment and headline went live.



Too bad none of the Chinese sauces I can think of are white.

[maximusveritas]

1. The responses in the comments there are more racist than the tweet

It's interesting to see how many people jump on something like this in order to attack black people. While his comment does make the crude use of Chinese food to represent his genitals, it's not saying he has a small penis like Whitlock did or using an offensive racial slur like ESPN did. Also, egg rolls and dumplings are Chinese foods, not just things that people make fun of them for stereotypically liking (like friend chicken, watermelon in the case of African-Americans).

[joeybee12]

2. Stupid people should not have Twitter accounts...

Of course, that would put Twitter out of business.

[Major Hogwash]

3. Yup, I agree with that.

It's almost as if every idiot in America has a Twitter account and is in a contest in their head to see if they can say the stupidest thing of the day.