Caught on Tape: Kobe Calls Ref a F***ing F****t

That just made up for the horrific thread you started about someone's birthday. Well done!

 

Because maybe the ref had more common sense than the people feigning outrage and realized that Kobe's comments were made in the heat of the competition, weren't actually used to put down gay people, and chose to ignore them? It doesn't make it right, but I think finding an NBA player (or hell, just your average young person) who doesn't use the word 'faggot' as a generic insult is far more newsworthy.

 

If "it doesn't make it right," why go to such lengths here to try to excuse it?

 

All the more reason *not* to just gloss over it. I'm not "outraged," I just want to make sure that every time the subject comes up, there are people around to say "that word is not okay."

 

You wins some, you loses some.

And I thought there was a lot longer institutional memory here.

 

Yeah, you can rest assured.

 

I don't know if a two-sentence response amounts to going "to such lengths," but whatever. Regardless, I interject my two cents because it's a bit absurd to see some of these posts which do nothing more than allow people to pat each other on the back for being so 'open-minded.' If you honestly are offended by the use of the word in this situation, that's fair. But I have to question some of the sincerity, especially considering that it centers around someone as polarizing as Kobe.

 

Next time Kobe should just use cocksucker and nobody will care.

 

This sort of sums up my thinking here (though it's NSFW):

 

Wow, I agree with this ... "Let's all be PC, because that's what we're supposed to do!"

Of course there are words that you want to stay away from, but I'll be the first in line to say that I'm not outraged about his use. Nor was I outraged by Kevin Garnett's cancer line, and my mom is currently going through chemo. I guess I just don't get as testy or bothered by certain things, and I find that society, on the whole, is a little hypersensitive.

 

Who *is* outraged? Probably some publicity seeking gay-rights activist groups, but that's about it.

 

Okay, so outrage was a poor word choice. I guess I should have went with something like judgmental disgust. I mean, to each his/her own and if you are truly offended that's your prerogative. But since there wasn't a thread dedicated to Kenyon Martin when he used the same word in a more vicious tirade directed at Mark Cuban AND there was audio to go with it, I tend to think at least some people aren't so much offended by the language as they are simply jumping at the opportunity to knock Kobe.