Cenk Uygur
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Army Stumbles Into Controversy Over Chinks Tweet
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January 31, 2015
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11:51Now Playing"The Army has deleted a tweet posted Thursday afternoon referring to “chinks” in the armor of its Special Operations capabilities after receiving numerous accusations of racism.
The tweet read: “Chinks in special ops’ digital and physical armor poses challenges, experts say.” It included a link to an Army news release with a similar headline that has since been changed. A search on Google Friday morning still showed the old headline:
The Army, whose main Twitter account has 589,000 followers, used the definition of the word that means a weakness or vulnerability — a common expression when discussing security issues. The Washington Post, New York Times and other major publications all use it on occasion, including recently."* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) and Brian Unger break it down.
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