KTVU put up another racist graphic reading, this time reading “Braves Scalped” to report Atlanta’s 13-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLDS.
You have to be kidding me KTVU. We may have been amused with your clearly innapropiate joke about the Chinese Pilots.
But it was wrong.
And this crosses the line.
This is disgusting.
Call me SJW. Call me annoying and weak. I won’t stand for this type of thing. People shouldn’t have to feel uncomfortable about the color of their skin. And treating them like this, making jokes about people’s heritage when it’s already a sore spot, is disrespectful.
This took place on the same day the Braves announced they weren’t going to distribute foam tomahawks and would limit using the “tomahawk chop” chant.
Man, I can’t believe the kind of stuff they put on TV back in the… OMG THAT’S FROM TONIGHT SERIOUSLY SO BAD. pic.twitter.com/MXUWYVvHIU
— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) October 10, 2019
Some would consider the Braves name to be racist, but to combine that with the concept of scalping for a baseball game is at minimum tasteless.
To me it is racist. Or at least culturally insensitive.
A simple “Braves eliminated” graphic could’ve sufficed and probably explained the story better because it would’ve told viewers Atlanta was eliminated from the MLB postseason.
This isn’t KTVU’s first mistake that veered into racism. In 2013, in reporting a story of an Asiana plane crash where two people died, the station put up a graphic and read the pilots names which were obviously fake and racist.
The NTSB actually confirmed those names but surely someone at KTVU at the time should’ve had the brains to see those names in print and believe that something wasn’t right.
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