Question

In 2012, ESPN fired a staff writer for referring to the Taiwanese American basketball player Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks with the headline "Chink in the Armor" following a team loss. Many readers took offense at the word chink, which has been used as a racial slur to demean Asian Americans. The staff writer neglected to consider the demographic characteristic of __________ when writing the headline.

Answer 1

Options:

A. Sexual orientation

B. Political orientation

C. Economic status

D. Culture

Answer:

Political Orientation

Explanation:

Political orientation characterizes the way a group of people think. Asian "Chink in the Armor" has in the past been used to ridicule Asian American, therefore before the staff writer wrote the headline he should have considered the political orientation of the Americans towards the Asian Americans.

If that phrase was used among another group of people where such political orientation has not been established, no reader would have taken offence. In fact it would not have caused any murmur in as it did.