Selective outrage over similar offensive remarks

EX-PATRIOTS tight end Christian Fauria this week made ugly news when he was suspended from his Boston WEEI sports radio show for performing an antiquated, bigoted, faked Chinese-gibberish imitation of Don Yee, Tom

Brady’s Asian-American agent. Good, Fauria earned it.

The station has lost at least five commercial sponsors in the fallout.

Yet, when Shaquille O’Neal, now with TNT, did precisely the same thing in mocking Yao

Ming, guess what happened? It made roughly 30 seconds of news then, whoosh! Vanished. Next, O’Neal publicly mocked the appearance of a young man — a big fan of his — because of his genetic condition that badly disfigured his face. Again, whoosh! Gone as if it never happened.

In fact, since then, O’Neal has added to his many commercial endorsements, proof that justice isn’t nearly as blind as it is selective.

➤ Don’t much care if UConn women’s coach Geno Auriemma wins 6,000 straight, he strikes me as cruel.

Saturday, in a 124-43 win over Wichita State, he allowed one of his subs the final six minutes, another the last five. Neither scored in a fourth quarter in which UConn kept pouring it on, winning the quarter, 23-4. But maybe those two subs were exhausted from practicing hard all season.

Auriemma does similar all season, every season. This season, from a roster of 12:

In a 104-52 win over Duquesne, he played his starters 30 or more minutes, two subs three minutes each. He played one kid three minutes in a 95-35 win over Houston.

In a 97-49 win versus Memphis, he played one kid for two minutes. In the other win over Memphis, 93-36, he played one sub four minutes another just two. In a 100-49 win versus South Florida, Auriemma first put in one of his subs with 1:50 left.

What’s the stakes, Coach? What’s the point? You’re undefeated, ranked No. 1, up by 50. Not enough?