Sometimes a Pork chop is just a Pork chop.

[Fishi3]

http://sports.sympatico.msn.ca/Pennsylv ... &date=True

Well we miss the Lynx in Ottawa but they were having small market blues
and headed for greener pastures. Goes to show you that slang varies from place to place as I was totally unaware that Pork Chop was anything but a way to slice pork.

Basically I think if you try hard enough anything an be taken as an insult and
what needs to be looked at is the intent and not any meanings that some word may have when taken out of context.

Pork chop is a kinda cure name for a pet pig.


But anyways my point was more hey look it's the Lynx and they are in trouble again. Even if they are no longer the Lynx or in Ottawa.

[Acushla]

Basically I think if you try hard enough anything an be taken as an insult and
what needs to be looked at is the intent and not any meanings that some word may have when taken out of context.

Agreed

[Dynamiks]

Huh??

Pork Chop is offensive???? HOW???

[Negs]

Huh??

Pork Chop is offensive???? HOW???

[Shigy]

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[Talidro]

Fishi3 is right, you can find *any phrase* offensive if you try hard enough to be ignorant. I think people are too tied up in stupid shit, instead of checking the meaning behind the the name/word/phrase. Its rather obvious that the team just thought "Hmm, pig mascot, lets name it after a cut of of pork, pork chop it is" and not "Hey, we've got a chance here to insult Puerto Ricans, pork chop it is"

stupid is as stupid does. I'd have left the damn name as pork chop. Are they boycotting the meat department at the local grocery store too, because I'm sure they sell chops of pork!

[Gridfan]

wow nice job stupid mexican...
(that was not intended in a racial way, I'm literally calling that Mexican a stupid Mexican because he just screwed up his own people)

The term "Pork Chops" has now become the new "nigger" (yeah I dare to spell out the "n" word fully *shock*) word but for Latinos,
now stupid white kids (plenty of those to go around the xmas table) will start calling Mexican kids that.

1. Pork Chops is the name of a food
2. Nobody new that Pork Chops was a derogatory thing until that moron pulled this stunt
3. Maybe those steelworkers was given that guy some personal flak rather than a racial one, it's steelworkers for crying out loud, if you look or act like a pig around them...expect to be nicknamed after something pig like, same thing with the military.
4. The only ones hurt by this is that one guy and possibly the pig if it understood human speech at all that is.
5. Some really clever marketing options was lost now, like: "Oh look everybody there's the team mascot Pork Chops" and it's running around with a banner for a bacon and meat company for example.

EDIT:

And thanks to this "incident" you'll get beaten up if you ever try to order something like this when you are in Puerto Rico and so on?:
http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/4293.html
Mom's Fried Pork Chops (Chuletas Fritas al Estilo de Mami)

Found in the Puerto Rico receipts page here: http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/puertorico.html

What's next? It's gonna be considered offensive if I for example decided to call Xtrophic meatball?
(Xtrophic is Swedish, get it? Swedish Meatballs? Hu huh huh? ehehehe)

Ok, Xtrophic is probably gonna kill me but...you get the point )
Anything can be offensive if the intent is such, it is fully possible to use what many would consider racial terminology in a non offensive way, like in humor (standup, commedies, etc) or in a brotherhood (like niggers calling others niggers) who ruined the nigger word? was it white or black people? Now the nigger word is bad, in the past it used to mean something, it was historical, it had pain, anger and prosecution behind it as meaning, not unlike what the simple word Jew is, that word too had pain and suffering and prosecution, pride, history.

Sorry for ranting, it's just pisses me off when people end up making what truly is everyday words (i.e. pork chops) an issue, why not make guns an issue instead...(re. recent incident in the states) *shrug*

[Firia]

Yaknow, I'm management at a hospital Café. Based on needs, I jump around to various positions. Some days, I'm dishing out the foods, and some days, those foods happen to be Pork Chops. Are you telling me, that if someone asks me, "What is that?" and I reply, "that is a pork chop," there is a chance that I could be reported to higher supervisors for getting racial?

I mean, it's a cut of meat! I don't even get the connection between pork chops and Puero Ricans. I didn't realise they had so much pork, that a cut of meat from a pig would be an accurate description.

WAH! I'm just going to move to canada.

[Acushla]

in the final analysis: there are two sides ..... if someone wants to be offensive they can do it .... any word will do . At the same time, if someone want to feel insulted any word used around him can be taken offensively.

Fortunately the Opposite is also true. If I as a person choose not to be offended it matters not what others say about me.

*me runs down to the local market to buy some Pork Chops*

[Negs]

I AM PUERTO RICAN and I have never once heard Pork Chops used in a derogatory way...............

Hell I can't even figure out how that is derogatory at all???