Hardaway homophobia

Don't worry about him. He blames EVERYTHING on LeBron.

 

Hey, he 'fessed up to the lack of a 'not' in his comment.

 

I'm talkin' about heyabbot.

 

Yeah, he said that as soon as the NAACP disavowed affirmative action he'd be a member since they are already against gays, abortion and immigration. He noted that McNabb spits, so maybe he's on the down low

 

Yeah, James was pussyfooting around what Hardaway came right out and said point blank.

I have to admit I'm getting a perverse laugh out of Tim's blunt honesty.

 

No, but an apology is a gesture of goodwill, and those gestures used to go a long way in our society. Now, we're all so quick to react and take a side and stick to it, and we're not interested in gestures of goodwill -- especially when those gestures are half-hearted, as Tim's appeared to be.

But accepting a gesture of goodwill, if it's contrite, shows that the offended party(s) has the enlightenment/maturity to forgive the offender's mistake/ignorance.

It gives you a starting point to work through a situation. That's why apologies are necessary. It's also why half-hearted apologies are even bigger slaps in the face.

 

And most people aren't sincere nowadays, whether it comes to gestures, apologies, whatever. People typically apologize only when their hand is caught in the cookie jar.

 

Buck, if somebody volunteers an apology because he genuinely feels bad after the fact about what he said, then an apology has merit.

But when an apology is offered only on demand, it's such a hollow gesture.

And 99 percent of the public apologies fall under the latter category, yet we still have people clamoring for them. It's a waste of time, energy and emotion.

 

The reason we clamor for them publicly is because that's how we're used to doing things privately.

If you get in somebody's way, don't you usually say, "Excuse me," without even thinking about it? "I'm sorry." "My bad." "Oops, are you OK?" All of those are simple apologies that take nary an ounce on effort. And we say them every day. It's just a part of interacting with other people.

The problem is that we try to apply those familiar norms on a macro scale and ... it doesn't come out the same. It's not that apologies aren't warranted. It's that Hardaway or Rocker, et al, are trying to throw out a simple "my bad" for much larger transgressions.

 

Did any of those people actually say they hated some other group of people? I don't remember Baker, White or Rocker going that far.

And did Malone even say anything about homosexuality? He expressed a fear of a deadly disease that showed some ignorance. Completely different than bigotry.

 

Ahhhhhh..... the old "I'm sorry.... I got caught... apology."

 

doesn't karl malone hunt, and hate black people?