The suspension comes amid a tenuous time for Boston sports radio. Tony Massarotti, a host for 98.5 the Sports Hub, was suspended last month after he made a racist joke about Black Americans. During a Feb. 17 segment on “Felger and Mazz,” Massarotti told co-host Mike Felger that he should be suspicious of Black men who were sitting behind him. Massarotti then recounted how Felger’s car was stolen during a trip to New Orleans last year.
“I would be careful if I were you,” said Massarotti, who laughed during the segment. “Because the last time you were around a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.” Massarotti later apologized, and Beasley Media, the station’s parent company, announced that it was mandating sensitivity training for all Boston-based employees at the company.
last month, ESPN colleague and former NFL player Domonique Foxworth said Kimes, a football nerd, altered the landscape for not just who gets to talk about the game on TV but how it gets talked about.Kimes has also been the target of trolls on social media who have lobbed sexist criticisms of her ability to talk about football since she’s a woman. She told The Post last month that she’s also had to call ESPN security to handle threats and harassment.
The slur used toward Kimes this week has a long history dating back to World War II. Slurs and caricatures against the Japanese were used as entertainment in wartime propaganda. Among the most notable examples is the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon in which
WP playing normies like a fiddle again. Man Twitter can be super demoralizing. Google 'why do we call Nihon Japan instead of Nihon' if you're reading this and are confused.
This is what Chris Curtis was hoping for, but from Mila Kunis not Mila Kimes because he was trying to be sexist and not racist. 🙄
NIP is offensive and not cool, just saying she is a person!
Lol, he said nips… how do you people create something out of absolutely nothing
Good. Dude has shown repeatedly who he is, and it’s not a good person. WEEI would have been better off dumping him. That station is trash and appeals to human garbage.
Nippon, is the Japanese word for Japan. 'Nips' was used as slur in the 1940s but really hasn't been a thing for 40 years.
Suspended?
Boston. Enough said. Not surprised at all
Moral: Don't make ethnic slurs!
Good
Crap, now I have to Google what 'nips' means, every day something useless to learn.
Good money says she’ll survive.
these days you say that?Ploy.Desprate for clicks DF
oh lord lol
Bastan been racist though 🤔
Chris Curtis- a jealousy MOFO! You wish you had Mina’s job!!
It depends on what one's understanding is
I did not know the word nips was also a slur about Asians, and I'm kinda proud of that.
He's auditioning for a job barstoolsports
But she can praise China, spew hate on police, white people, America, and nobody bats an eye
He is a freak
All she does is complain about racial attacks toward her….it’s how she makes her money….disgusting
They’re trying to axe nips from liquor stores citing litter and the name being racially connected, only reason the topic is trending..Mina’s not ugly and probably the first person who comes to a sports mind, other half didn’t realize it was racist asking for a few nips from the l
The old sitcom McHale’s Navy used to call the Japanese that all the time
CRUDE
Not seeing where it’s a slur. Is Brit a slur? How about Yank? Kraut? This is ridiculous
clarencehilljr Yeah
I know it is a ethnic slur...but then again I read.
Good riddance
clarencehilljr No jokes allowed
Nippon is the Japanese word for Japan. So we have to say “keev,” instead of Kiev, because that’s apparently how they pronounce it, and “cutter” instead of Qatar, perhaps for the same reason, but God forbid you say nip. Should Germany be Deutschland from now on? Help me out here.
'I didn’t mean to use a racist slur against one woman, I meant to make a sexist comment about another woman' isn’t the best defense.
i never knew nips was a racial slur. i've only known them as traveling parties.
Good
The war of words is a a skill set that only wounds one way. Don Lemon can say anything he likes about women. Same goes for rappers about crackers and cops. Only the white is punished for their words. Whoppi has free words each and every day. Just saying.
None of it is offensive
Suspended ? How about being fired !
How does this supposed apology make things better? I meant to be misogynistic and racist towards a different woman than the one I actually said? Just stay quiet.
The 'apology' was pathetic...Curtis said he didnt mean to say her name but another person, which was, in his terms,.somewhat less offensive? 💩🤡
Boston is the most racist city in the country. They prove it over and over again.
Common Boston L
Stay woke
you do love your struggle sessions, don't you JeffBezos
A racist in Boston?
I am in my mid-40s from NYC and I've never heard that word used as a slur toward a specific people. Wow. I guess I learn something new and offensive every day?
But yt ppl in Boston are notorious for denying their racism, as well as anybody who votes Republican (it's abt the economy or my paycheck..yeah right!). Anywho...what's hidden in the dark eventually comes to light.
In his 'apology' he said he meant his racist comment to be directed at a different woman?
Ridiculous given our First Amendment. So nips is a slur? I can think of much nastier things to call Japanese given their behavior in WW 2. Nips stands for Nippon, or Japan.
Ain't that America
Boston just bein bOsToN
In other words, competitive victimhood is still a thing
He wasn’t referring to her breasts? I mean offensive either way but I would have assumed wasn’t ethnic but sleepy
Hmm. Broadcaster Mike Breen occasionally made racist quips while he was the sports reporter on the Imus radio show. Different times.
davecullinane broke both of these two stories so give him credit
And….enjoy that UNPAID PTO
WEEI ...sports for knuckledraggers, racists and MAGA in general.
Good.
Why worry about what hair club has to say. Little D energy..
Apparently he called her 'nips' when she's half Korean? He can't even tell the difference between ethnicities.
Lol!
This happened on Tuesday, and all the sudden he's sorry? If I'm not mistaken, the Audacy spin was that he was making a sexist comment about Mila Kunis, not a racist one about minakimes. Is that really any better?
I see he added an I’m really innocent because I would never in a million years do something that juvenile and offensive as I did clause to his apology.
Normal day in Boston
It's also come out that biden's daughters diary is real and that she complains when she was a young girl having to take a shower with her father Joe Biden absolutely sick and Joe knows he's sick
We live in a society of snowflakes. Nowadays everything is offensive Grow a pair!.
Oh no, it’s an online backlash
Wow. A long weekend. What a punishment WEEI
Oh no, not WORDS!
FAFO.
So you can't say the short word for nipples?
I don't understand. How hard is it not to say something stupid about other people? It's easy. 'I don't like Mina Kimes' analysis. I hate the way she sees sports and turns it into analytics' or something like that. It's not that hard.
Boston just really holding up what sports Steelers have been saying for a while.
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GOOD.
Oh no bad words!