Is 'We ♥ Yu Long Time' Sign Funny, Racist or Dumb? Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish was the most anticipated Japanese import since Ichiro. Darvish finally took the mound on Monday night, and although he barely made it out of the first inning of his major-league debut (giving up three walks and four hits to the Mariners over 42 pitches), the right-hander settled down nicely, retiring 10 straight at one point, to collect his first American win. The fans rallied behind him at Rangers Ballpark, excited to see the stud they had been told so much about all winter long. Some fans, seemed really, really excited. Long-time excited. (via AP) (via @JimmyTraina twitpic) It’s hard to know where we are sometimes. As a society. Some casual racism is deemed hilarious — if it’s truly funny, of course. And some seemingly innocuous comments are taken as offense. Given the Jeremy Lin “chink in the armor” fiasco, do you believe this sign is racist? If so, is it playful enough to elicit a laugh or totally overt racism and unacceptable in public? And would it be too easy to point out to these guys that Darvish is Iranian-Japanese, and not from Vietnam, which is where the famous “Me Love You Long Time” line came from in Full Metal Jacket, making this somehow about how all Asian people look alike and not about the intended joke? Either way, we hope this story has a happy ending. Oh, c’mon! Weigh in with your thoughts below. Let’s get it going … Go on, go ’head and click and Follow Us for more updates straight to your news & nonsense feeds. MORE GREAT STUFF FOR YOUR PERUSAL: • Meet the Man Who Predicted Facebook Would Buy Instagram in 2012 • Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion • What It’s Like When a 15-Foot Shark Circles Your Little Fishing Boat • Photo of the Day: Why Nature Is Way Cooler Than You’ll Ever Be • Watch This Poor Girl Get Blown Into a Wall By a Plane Engine • Televangelist Tebow Draws Crowd: ‘In Christianity, It’s the Pope and Tebow’ • Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice Rules Having Sex With 12-Year-Old Girls May Not Be a Crime Slade Sohmer Slade Sohmer is editor-in-chief of HyperVocal and co-host of SiriusXM's daily "Politics Powered By Twitter" program. Tweet him at @SladeHV.
Ramblingbling 10.04.12 @ 11:06 am The sign like the hillbillies holding it , are ignorant. The guy was not born in ‘Nam, Cletus. He was born of a Iranian father like I was , And he is the greatest thing since Jesus except he really exists and is not made up like the tooth fairey ,god, his son or Bigfoot. Bring it
Sledwreck13 10.04.12 @ 12:54 pm Harmless, in my opinion. It is poking fun at a style or manner of speech. I can’t allow this to not be funny. If I do, then Eddie Murphy’s “We ain’t falling for no banana in the tail pipe” scene, Team America’s “I’m so ronery” Kim Jong spoof, A Christmas Story’s Chinese food restaurant rendition of “Deck The Halls”, the “We ain’t found shit!” scene from Spaceballs and just about every funny minute of the Sopranos would have to be sequestered. And that is unacceptable.
Emoney316 30.04.12 @ 2:27 pm actually the one texan on the right holding the sign looks more asian than Yu LMAO
Emoney316 30.04.12 @ 2:31 pm its only because his first name is YU and hes from japan and speeks japanese he looks iranian if sledwreck13 was from japan they would be saying “we love sledwreck13 long time”
truebeachbabe 02.04.13 @ 11:40 pm I think it’s awesome, my Chinese friend thinks it’s awesome, and the guy gets free publicity after their opening day loss and now almost perfect game. I’m sure he can laugh it off and will love his groupies screaming it later. Let’s be honest here.