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Former NBA Player Tim Hardaway - "I hate gay people."
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| RJT |
Honestly, how does any intelligent individual think it's Ok to say things like this in public anymore?
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/6473866
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One week after retired NBA player John Amaechi publically identified himself as gay, retired Heat guard Tim Hardaway said on a Miami radio show that he would not want to play with a gay man.
"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known," Hardaway said Wednesday, according to a transcript on the Miami Herald Web site. "I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."
Hardaway was a guest on the show and was asked at the end of the interview how he would handle having a gay teammate.
''First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team,'' Hardaway answered. "And second of all, if he was on my team, I would really distance myself from him because I don't think that is right. I don't think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room. But stuff like that is going on and there's a lot of other people I hear that are like that and still in the closet and don't want to come out of the closet, but you know I just leave that alone.''
Hardaway doesn't think he's alone in that view, either.
''Something has to give,'' he said. "And I think the majority of players would ask for him to be traded or they would want to be traded...If you have 12 other ballplayers in your locker room that are upset and can't concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court it's going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate.''
He later apologized for the remarks during a telephone interview with FOX affiliate WSVN in Miami.
"Yes, I regret it. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I hate gay people or anything like that," he said. "That was my mistake."
Writers and NBA personalities, including Heat center Shaquille O'Neal and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, have widely praised Amaechi's revelation.
But Amaechi himself said he was overwhelmed by the attention he's received and still believes homophobia is rampant in and out of sports.
''We are much further behind than I'd like,'' Amaechi said, according to the Herald. "People in America and England would like to think racism is over, sexism is over, and homophobia is over, but it's not. My coming out will show that gay people don't all look like Jack from Will and Grace. Some of us are big, athletic men, and that should be OK.''
Amaechi also said he had not heard from a single former teammate or NBA player, but had been contacted by Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers. He also urged heterosexual players to support the cause.
"It's hard to get straight guys to step up," he said. "When men stood by women during the suffrage movement, they were called progressive and bold. When whites stood by blacks, they were heroes. But a straight guy standing up for a gay guy faces discrimination, and that's a big part of the battle we're fighting."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
People are welcome to whatever opinion they want to have on homosexuality - but if you're going to be a bigot, at least try to frame your bigotry in some sort of faux-intellectual light.
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| Inconspicuous |
| just heard it on Sportscenter...wow...even to go all the way to one end of the spectrum and forgetting the merits of the stance he has, I can't believe that somebody would be that idiotic to decide that it'd be a good idea to say that. At the very least, just keep it to yourself. You'd have to be the most naive person in the world to fail to see the fallout that'd come from those remarks. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| da man's got sumpin to say. respek dat |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Inconspicuous
You'd have to be the most naive person in the world to fail to see the fallout that'd come from those remarks. |
Exactly.
It's not as if he's some televangelist, right wing preacher who no-one is going to hear anyway - how he could possibly think that he could say such things on a radio show and they wouldn't be heard by every sports fan in the world just seems ludicrous.
Although I guess the silver lining to all this is maybe the PC culture of America hasn't taken over yet completely... :nervous: |
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| Justkillingtime |
| quote: | | da man's got sumpin to say. respek dat |
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Crawl back into your hole you stupid . |
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| Boomer187 |
it was kinda wierd, the local fox news network here was asking people to email them with their opinions. A lot of people agreed with him but said that it came out wrong. I was like WTF, is every a homophobic bigot?
either that or tim had all his friends email in supporting him. hehe.
either way the guy is a moron, and everyone that agrees with him is a moron. . |
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| wizniz |
| Amaechi is well worded, however. Cheers to him. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Justkillingtime
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Crawl back into your hole you stupid . |
his teammate, i'm guessing is on his team. he hasn't hurt him, killed him, or whatever. i have an opinion on gays, i keep it to myself. he has an opinion on gays, he lets it out. nobody is getting hurt and i doubt he's going to do anything but just make people who already have problem with gays just say, "mmmmmhmmm, dat man is right," not sway everyone into his thinking |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
his teammate, i'm guessing is on his team. he hasn't hurt him, killed him, or whatever. i have an opinion on gays, i keep it to myself. he has an opinion on gays, he lets it out. nobody is getting hurt and i doubt he's going to do anything but just make people who already have problem with gays just say, "mmmmmhmmm, dat man is right," not sway everyone into his thinking |
I think all of us understand this - we're just all astounded how anyone with an IQ above -53 could possibly think there wouldn't be massive, public fallout for saying these types of things. If you're going to "let it out," there are probably (well, maybe not) substantially more intelligent ways of going about it. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
it was kinda wierd, the local fox news network here was asking people to email them with their opinions. A lot of people agreed with him but said that it came out wrong. I was like WTF, is every a homophobic bigot?
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It's Faux News. Did you really expect anything less? |
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| eRRaTiK |
| he gotz da killa crossover yo! |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I think all of us understand this - we're just all astounded how anyone with an IQ above -53 could possibly think there wouldn't be massive, public fallout for saying these types of things. If you're going to "let it out," there are probably (well, maybe not) substantially more intelligent ways of going about it. |
massive fallout? like what? media coverage 24/7 for 2 days straight, then back to "normal"? there are some things that impact the nation/world/universe. B-Ball player quotes are not one of them. |
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