Animal Chin is cancelled

[Genericwhitemale]

Buy whatever is left with his face on it.
You can check Chinatown.

[EdLawndale]

Excuse me, Sir, we have an organized event going on

[Star Whores Episode I: The Fellatio Menace]

Can you cancel something that only happened once 34 years ago?

[yourbreakfsat]

Something happen?

[cky enthusiast]

it’s about time

[MORT]

Yes the man pictured in the “have you seen him?” Animal chin posters is a very disappointing Asian stereotype. Not to mention his full name was Won-Ton Animal Chin. I mean look at the white bread mayonnaise and bologna sandwich George Powell and Stacy Peralta make and you shouldn’t be surprised they cooked up some racist stereotype like that. The icing on the cake of this whole weird story is this. The man pictured in the photo is a total creep, like tries to touch young boys creep. Someone I knew met him at some skate event, tried to take a picture with him and the old man squeezed his ass mid photo. Everything about the animal chin guy is fucked.

[cky enthusiast]

stacy peralta isn’t white mijo

[TheDingus]

Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

[HugeBodBoyle]

stacy peralta isn’t white mijo

Ah, the ol' Louis CK bit. Neat.

[Lou Strux]

Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

The YMCA’s youth adventure program also recently changed their name.
Know why?
Because, like that ridiculous caricature Animal Chin, it was no longer culturally sensitive, or appropriate. If your branding requires you offend some people in order to sell your products, you may want to reconsider your marketing approach.
Fuckin’ Indian Guides; always been on the wrong side of tasteful. Just like ol’ Won Ton.
Besides, thems what don’t evolve, usually die off. Let’s not be dinosaurs. Let’s DO leave Animal Chin where he belongs, as a fossilized relic of a time since past.
Nobody’s hurt by that.

[HugeBodBoyle]

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Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

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The YMCA’s youth adventure program also recently changed their name.
Know why?
Because, like that ridiculous caricature Animal Chin, it was no longer culturally sensitive, or appropriate. If your branding requires you offend some people in order to sell your products, you may want to reconsider your marketing approach.
Fuckin’ Indian Guides; always been on the wrong side of tasteful. Just like ol’ Won Ton.
Besides, thems what don’t evolve, usually die off. Let’s not be dinosaurs. Let’s DO leave Animal Chin where he belongs, as a fossilized relic of a time since past.
Nobody’s hurt by that.

Plus the video sucked. A relic with bad street skating. Did I watch it a ton? Sure. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE READILY AVAILABLE.

[Lou Strux]

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Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

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The YMCA’s youth adventure program also recently changed their name.
Know why?
Because, like that ridiculous caricature Animal Chin, it was no longer culturally sensitive, or appropriate. If your branding requires you offend some people in order to sell your products, you may want to reconsider your marketing approach.
Fuckin’ Indian Guides; always been on the wrong side of tasteful. Just like ol’ Won Ton.
Besides, thems what don’t evolve, usually die off. Let’s not be dinosaurs. Let’s DO leave Animal Chin where he belongs, as a fossilized relic of a time since past.
Nobody’s hurt by that.

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Plus the video sucked. A relic with bad street skating. Did I watch it a ton? Sure. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE READILY AVAILABLE.

Future Primitive & the BBVS were better vids anyway, in my opinion.

[jgonzalez]

Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

Dingus gonna dingus

Asian people aren’t symbols for fun. They’re people.

Let’s blowup your negative vibes dog

[Christmas Complete]

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Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

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The YMCA’s youth adventure program also recently changed their name.
Know why?
Because, like that ridiculous caricature Animal Chin, it was no longer culturally sensitive, or appropriate. If your branding requires you offend some people in order to sell your products, you may want to reconsider your marketing approach.
Fuckin’ Indian Guides; always been on the wrong side of tasteful. Just like ol’ Won Ton.
Besides, thems what don’t evolve, usually die off. Let’s not be dinosaurs. Let’s DO leave Animal Chin where he belongs, as a fossilized relic of a time since past.
Nobody’s hurt by that.

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Plus the video sucked. A relic with bad street skating. Did I watch it a ton? Sure. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE READILY AVAILABLE.

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Future Primitive & the BBVS were better vids anyway, in my opinion.

Seconded

[Theseaorganization]

Holy shit you're a whole lot of pussies honestly

[Utopos]

Holy shit you're a whole lot of pussies honestly

[urbneathme]

Holy shit you're a whole lot of pussies honestly

for sure dude, you're way too tough and cool to be here, you should see yourself out

[Theseaorganization]

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for sure dude, you're way too tough and cool to be here, you should see yourself out

Or how about you people grow some balls and maybe get a sense of humor

[Eric Dolphy]

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for sure dude, you're way too tough and cool to be here, you should see yourself out

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Or how about you people grow some balls and maybe get a sense of humor

Everyone harden up and accept that chinese people are funny, or be compared to a vagina, the ultimate symbol of weakness

[Theseaorganization]

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for sure dude, you're way too tough and cool to be here, you should see yourself out

[close]

Or how about you people grow some balls and maybe get a sense of humor

[close]

Everyone harden up and accept that chinese people are funny, or be compared to a vagina, the ultimate symbol of weakness

Haha see i can see you disagree with me but at least you said it in a funny way

[cky enthusiast]

if you are honestly upset about this you need to get a life in a giant way. i’m sure the AARP mag you get every month will have some ideas about how to occupy your time (shuffleboard, wearing full pads and doing shallow end slash grinds etc)

[Lou Strux]

Holy shit you're a whole lot of pussies honestly

And you’re a whole lot of asshole, but nobody’s wasting their time pointing THAT out.
I’m not offended by Animal Chin, because I’m a.) not of Asian lineage, and b.) I understand it’s cultural context, because I was around the 1st time it came out.
Neither of those two factors prevent me from being able to examine the phenom of Animal Chin with a moderately critical mind, nor from  determining that it’s totally reasonable in today’s cultural climate, ESPECIALLY IN TODAY’S CULTURAL CLIMATE, to find that shit offensive & completely sus.
Nobody’s being asked to bury the past. Just leave that shit there & learn from it going forward.
Is that so difficult for you?

[PatrickSkateman]

I say we turn this into a Big Brother Yellow Issue appreciation thread.

[HugeBodBoyle]

Animal Chin was one of the last vestiges of the sort of inaccessible vert skating that has more in common with dudes on $5,000 Santa Cruz bikes at the pump track than anything existing in skateboarding now.

An interesting entry in the museum, but we've moved on.

Oh, and the caricature is racist, too.

[Theseaorganization]

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And you’re a whole lot of asshole, but nobody’s wasting their time pointing THAT out.
I’m not offended by Animal Chin, because I’m a.) not of Asian lineage, and b.) I understand it’s cultural context, because I was around the 1st time it came out.
Neither of those two factors prevent me from being able to examine the phenom of Animal Chin with a moderately critical mind, nor from  determining that it’s totally reasonable in today’s cultural climate, ESPECIALLY IN TODAY’S CULTURAL CLIMATE, to find that shit offensive & completely sus.
Nobody’s being asked to bury the past. Just leave that shit there & learn from it going forward.
Is that so difficult for you?

You JUST wasted time pointing out what an asshole i am.

[Lou Strux]

Wasn’t wasted at all.

[blurst_of_times]

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for sure dude, you're way too tough and cool to be here, you should see yourself out

[close]

Or how about you people grow some balls and maybe get a sense of humor

[close]

Everyone harden up and accept that chinese people are funny, or be compared to a vagina, the ultimate symbol of weakness

What's funny is that vaginas are pretty damn strong and resilient. Y'know what are really sensitive and need to be handled delicately? Balls.

[foureyedjim]

Final nail in the coffin; canceling a symbol of fun and adventure. Let’s blow up this dumb planet.

Imagine this: Your ancestors coming to America, building a fucking railroad, still get killed and persecuted for being Asian.  Then some skinny white boys years later use a stereotype of your race to sell a wooden toy. 
Some white folks will never understand, but someday you'll die and all the things you think are fun and symbolize adventure will be outdated and eventually die out too. 

[cky enthusiast]

Animal Chin was one of the last vestiges of the sort of inaccessible vert skating that has more in common with dudes on $5,000 Santa Cruz bikes at the pump track than anything existing in skateboarding now.

An interesting entry in the museum, but we've moved on.

Oh, and the caricature is racist, too.

rob roskopp has his beefy hands on both

[Matthew_James]

The only people who watched that video are the guys who grew up during that era. My friends and I tried watching it one evening just because it's a part of skateboard history, and it was the absolute worst thing ever. We couldn't sit through that trash, easily one of the most insufferable skate videos ever put out, they're lucky that they had a captive audience w/o any other alternatives back then...