Jacqui Cooper takes heat for racist comment about Chinese Olympians

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Jacqui Cooper Slammed For Racist Comment About The Chinese

White people HAVE to be more aware of how they speak about other cultures, races and religions. Especially when there are ugly stereotypes that are pervasive among said demographic.

Enter Jacqui Cooper. A former Olympian skiier from Australia who was doing commentary for channel seven in the UK. During last night’s broadcast, Cooper made mention of the Chinese athletes and dropped this bomb:

‘Very Chinese,’ Cooper said of Yan Ting’s first jump.

‘They all look the same, they’re very hard to tell who’s who.’

*record skips* Wait. Excuse us. Come again?

‘They all look the same, they’re very hard to tell who’s who.’

Whoa. Really? Jacqui’s employer tried to come to her defense…

‘During tonight’s cover of the women’s aerials, commentator Jacqui Cooper a former Olympian and World Champion – noted than an aerial manouevre was in a technical and style sense, very Chinese,’ Seven said.

‘Meaning that the whole of the Chinese aerial team are trained in the same way – and the manouevre referenced was a classic technically perfect, trademark of that team’s style.

‘At no time was the commentary racist, intended to be racist or offensive.’

First of all, the ruling class doesn’t get to decide what is and isn’t racist. Secondly, why tf isn’t Jacqui making the statement. She’s a grown azz woman who said what she said and she can just as easily apologize as one.

Get your s#!t together, Becky Jacqui.