A) No, he did not. He implied a lot of Korean golfers were named "Lee". He said "a Korean" first, then one named Lee to narrow it down.
Nonsense. He mentioned that a Korean would win, then he said that if he guessed the name "Lee" he'd be right, meaning he'd be right in predicted the name of the winner and that they are Korean. That logically assumes that only Koreans are named Lee.
B) I don't see how either would be racist and/or sexist.
Of course you don't. Racism blinds people recognizing similar racism in others.
Um, OK. So long as that sort of racism is tolerated here.
How is it racist to point to two specific women and point out their actual nationality and names? Do you not see the difference between that and talking about a group of non-specific people that you just admitted you don't know and assuming their names from their nationality and their nationality from their names? Not grasping the chasm of difference between those things is a hallmark of a racist mindset.
I agree he doesn't appear to give much of a shit about women's golf, but if that makes you a racist and sexist, then I think about 99.99% of the world is covered.
Not being interested in women's golf and expressing mockery and disdain for women's sports are not the same, and Haney did the latter.
Women's sports? What other women's sports did he address? He said he doesn't follow the LPGA. Is it racist and sexist not to follow the LPGA? Seriously?
So, we can add lack of basic reading skills to your faults. You just quoted me saying that it is not about him merely not following the LGPA, and then you asked me why I think he is sexist for merely not following the LPGA. He is not some random person who doesn't follow the LGPA. He is a paid analyst for professional golf who dedicated his life to the sport, who went out of his way to mockingly
pretend that the pro sport is so uninteresting to him when played by women that he doesn't know more than 6 women on tour. But then he admitted that he did know more women on tour, revealing his comment was nothing but an attempt to mock the women's version of the sport as uninteresting. Plus, he also pretended to not even realize that the biggest event in women's pro golf was that weekend. The extreme implausibility of that means, this was another attempt to go out of his way to mock and deride the women's version of the sport he is paid to comment on.
Since he loves the sport of golf itself and is paid to know about the pro sport, his deliberate mockery can only be a mockery of women playing pro sports.
His job is to be an expert of the sport of golf
I didn't realize we had so many experts on Hank Haney's job description here.
It seems far more likely to me based on the facts in evidence that it was not his job at all to be an expert in women's golf.
His co-host asked him about it precisely b/c it is their job. It's a radio show owned by the PGA who strongly promote the women's pro game and have direct business relationships with the LPGA. In fact, the PGA puts on annual "Women's PGA Championship" in collaboration with the LPGA, and most of the players are the one's on the LPGA tour that Haney pretended not to know. The winner that Haney claims credit for predicting played in that Championship last year, along with all the top players in the LPGA that Haney just pretended not to know, including the winner who was one of 10 Korean in that Championship not named Lee. Most of them are playing this weekend in that PGA event, the company Haney works for.
His comments in the professional context in which they occurred are so obviously racist and sexist that going to the lengths you are to make excuses for them is itself strong evidence of racism and sexism (the only other possible explanations being either getting paid to be his PR manager or severe mental disability).
