18mr:
Can you feel the force of my side-eye, Wall Street Journal?
“Fueled with Rice” is lazy, lazy, lazy writing. If the only thing you can think of when writing about a person of Asian descent is "rice" then you should examine your journalistic skills. Are you actually producing quality writing? If the article had been about a Ukrainian player, would you have written “fueled by pierogis”? If the player had been russian would you have written “fueled by vodka”?
Is the title more effective with a racial stereotype, or can it function without it? The answer is always yes; yes, you can produce good quality journalism without using racial stereotypes.
They didn’t even try.
I LITERALLY CANNOT COMPREHEND WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH THE JOURNALIST’S MIND WHILE WRITING THAT HEADLINE
LIKE OH HEY AN ASIAN PERSON WAS GOOD AT TENNIS
QUICK WRITE SOMETHING CATCHY AND CLEVER ABOUT HOW FUCKING ASIAN THEY ARE WHAT SHALL I DO WHAT’S THE ONE THING EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT ASIANS OH YEAH THEY EAT RICE HERE WE GO
I MEAN
HOW FUCKING
STUPID
DO YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE SERIOUSLY
YOU SHOULDN’T EVEN BE DOING THE JOB THAT YOU HAVE WTF