“He went ninja on him”: Racist or awesome?
Jeremy Lin, the former Harvard star, is receiving some serious love for his summer league play. But that’s not why I brought Lin up. I could really care less that someone from Harvard played pretty well in the NBA Summer League. It’s nice to root for the underdog and everything, but I have no ties to Jeremy Lin and won’t pretend to just because he played college ball in Massachusetts.No, I brought Lin up because of a quote screamed at him during the summer league. I think it was meant as some sort of racial slur, which is sad. But, well, if it wasn’t racist then it’d be awesome. (NBA.com)
At Harvard, all was not perfect. Lin dealt with racial slurs and plenty of heckling from what is supposed to be the nations brightest in Ivy League gyms. At Summer League he accidentally hit a player and a fan yelled “He went ninja on him.”
“He went ninja on him.” In a completely non-racist way, I think I’m going to adopt that quote as my own. When Paul Pierce dunked on Chris Bosh last season, Pierce went ninja on him. When the Celtics completely bottled up Lebron, they went ninja on him. When I murder a post in the best way possible, I went ninja on it.
What do you guys think? Should I keep that quote as my own? Should I continue striving to go ninja on whatever’s in my path?
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Already adopted in my vocabulary haha
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I’ve got one convert!
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Absofreakinglutely!!!
I’m on board with it!!!
I’m looking forward to the upcoming season of basketball action where I expect plenty of Rondo going ninja on opposing teams interior defense!
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Rondo’s going to go ninja all the time. I can’t wait.
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Heh. There have been actual racist things yelled at him — so that comment ranks really low on the Offend-O-Meter. But I guess it’s like saying “He went ghetto on him!” about a black player. Not mean-spirited, but come on…grow the hell up.
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I’m not talking about saying it in a racist way. Not at all. I’m talking about using the same phrase to describe something entirely non-racist. In no way am I trying to encourage racism.
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