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Roy Hibbert Uses Gay Slur in Post Game Press Conference

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If a thread has already been started about this, please merge this with it. However, I searched for one and did not see it.

This is an overreaction IMO. How is it okay for Jason Collins to proclaim his sexuality but not okay for Roy Hibbert to say what he said? The sexual preference of public figures is something that homosexuals use constantly to further their cause. When the other side says something, I don't believe it to be proper for the gay community and/or gay supporters to attempt to shame them or muzzle them. Simple as that.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur,  reaches out to Jason Collins  - NY Daily News
 
Freedom of speech only applies to the progressives and the duty to tolerate people you disagree with only applies to the conservatives. This is the 21st Century, Man. Get with the program.
 
If a thread has already been started about this, please merge this with it. However, I searched for one and did not see it.

This is an overreaction IMO. How is it okay for Jason Collins to proclaim his sexuality but not okay for Roy Hibbert to say what he said? The sexual preference of public figures is something that homosexuals use constantly to further their cause. When the other side says something, I don't believe it to be proper for the gay community and/or gay supporters to attempt to shame them or muzzle them. Simple as that.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur, *reaches out to Jason Collins* - NY Daily News

edit: nah, not worth going down that line

Your own post is proof. You didn't say what he said. You said... "what he said."
 
edit: nah, not worth going down that line

Your own post is proof. You didn't say what he said. You said... "what he said."

What?
 
If a thread has already been started about this, please merge this with it. However, I searched for one and did not see it.

This is an overreaction IMO. How is it okay for Jason Collins to proclaim his sexuality but not okay for Roy Hibbert to say what he said? The sexual preference of public figures is something that homosexuals use constantly to further their cause. When the other side says something, I don't believe it to be proper for the gay community and/or gay supporters to attempt to shame them or muzzle them. Simple as that.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur, *reaches out to Jason Collins* - NY Daily News

Time for some sensitivity training in the NBA. It's not okay.
 
You avoided using the terminology that Hibbert did, because you also know the terms can be offensive.

It's in the attached article. No need for me to say it again. That would only serve to make an already inflammatory subject more inflammatory. It's a little thing called restraint Deuce. I know I'll already be framed by some as a bigot simply for the stance I take on this even though I'm not. Why feed more ammunition to someone who mistakingly believes that about me?
 
Time for some sensitivity training in the NBA. It's not okay.
Yes Mags, we need more sensitivity training in this country. :roll: That's this country's issue from the top down. Sensitivity is taken to the extreme ie you can't even criticize someone for sucking at their job without it being misconstrued as some sort of personal shot. Culture is culture. Homosexuality is still not viewed as okay by a lot of Americans and more so in the black community. Heck, you can hear Hibbert's teammate laugh when he says it. No matter the effort by a few, the many most likely will never believe being gay is okay.
 
Well good thing he added it or else I might have thought LeBron really stretched him out in a homo way :roll:
 
Freedom of speech only applies to the progressives and the duty to tolerate people you disagree with only applies to the conservatives. This is the 21st Century, Man. Get with the program.

He was censured by the NBA. If you have a problem with a specific policy of the NBA, why don't you bring it to their attention rather than going off on one of your usual miserable misplaced spew episodes?..................
 
Yes Mags, we need more sensitivity training in this country. :roll: That's this country's issue from the top down. Sensitivity is taken to the extreme ie you can't even criticize someone for sucking at their job without it being misconstrued as some sort of personal shot. Culture is culture. Homosexuality is still not viewed as okay by a lot of Americans and more so in the black community. Heck, you can hear Hibbert's teammate laugh when he says it. No matter the effort by a few, the many most likely will never believe being gay is okay.

What one says when at a press conference representing their team absolutely demands professionalism. He was fined $75,000. Hopefully, he won't do it again.
 
What one says when at a press conference representing their team absolutely demands professionalism. He was fined $75,000. Hopefully, he won't do it again.
I will agree with you that it was unprofessional. The fine was entirely too steep though IMO. Many Americans would be happy to earn that in a year.
 
He said he didn't care if he got fined, so he should suck it up. The NBA has every right to enforce an anti-homophobe policy. Good for them.
 
I will agree with you that it was unprofessional. The fine was entirely too steep though IMO. Many Americans would be happy to earn that in a year.

It is a lot of money to a lot of people, but to them it's relatively little. This was all private contract as well. Do we go too far? Yeah, but there's no government reaction here so there's not much to do about it. The public persona of professional sports is absolutely in the interest of the sport. I think it is a lot of money, but also Hibbert knew the contract.
 
"No Homo" can be viewed as insensitive to be sure, but it hardly qualifies as a slur. Referring to the press as "mother****ers" is also unprofessional and a comment that warrants a fine of its own.
 
I will agree with you that it was unprofessional. The fine was entirely too steep though IMO. Many Americans would be happy to earn that in a year.

$14.5 million a year. $75,000 is about 1/2 of 1% of his salary.

To a guy making $75,000 a year? That's the equivalent of $1,125.

Mind-boggling, isn't it?
 
Freedom of speech only applies to the progressives and the duty to tolerate people you disagree with only applies to the conservatives. This is the 21st Century, Man. Get with the program.

I'd agree if anyone was saying that this kind of talk should be illegal. But in this case I think the NBA can and should encourage its members to act professional. Maybe the fine was too much, but if they believed that anything less wouldn't discourage that kind of thing, then I guess it was necessary.
 
It was at a press conference and said by a figure head of your team. Yeah you should apologize. Reaching out to Jason Collins was just good PR.
 
He was censured by the NBA. If you have a problem with a specific policy of the NBA, why don't you bring it to their attention rather than going off on one of your usual miserable misplaced spew episodes?..................

Because if I did I wouldn't get to be reminded of how easily the truth hurts the left when they are forced to confront it. Good to see that a preference for alliterated blather to avoid the subject of the OP streak continues.
 
If a thread has already been started about this, please merge this with it. However, I searched for one and did not see it.

This is an overreaction IMO. How is it okay for Jason Collins to proclaim his sexuality but not okay for Roy Hibbert to say what he said? The sexual preference of public figures is something that homosexuals use constantly to further their cause. When the other side says something, I don't believe it to be proper for the gay community and/or gay supporters to attempt to shame them or muzzle them. Simple as that.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur, *reaches out to Jason Collins* - NY Daily News

Because insulting someone is not OK. For example - Do you think it's OK to say the n-word? Most people don't, and that's not even a liberal/conservative thing. Plus, he wasn't giving his opinion of Jason Collins as a person or as a ball player. He wasn't giving his opinion about homosexuality in general. He used the term "homo" as an insult toward LeBron James. Can you tell the difference?
 
Freedom of speech only applies to the progressives and the duty to tolerate people you disagree with only applies to the conservatives. This is the 21st Century, Man. Get with the program.

Of course, he wasn't expressing his opinion about gays, gay marriage, etc. It was intended as an insult.

So stop getting your diapers in a wad about how persecuted you are as a Conservative, put on your big girl panties, and read what he said.
 
Of course, he wasn't expressing his opinion about gays, gay marriage, etc. It was intended as an insult.

So stop getting your diapers in a wad about how persecuted you are as a Conservative, put on your big girl panties, and read what he said.

I don't wear panties, and it does not matter what his intentions were. One day you will realize--assuming that you actually do think--that punishing people for expressing unpopular opinions has a way to come around and bite you in the ass no matter how right you think you are in the moment.
 
If a thread has already been started about this, please merge this with it. However, I searched for one and did not see it.

This is an overreaction IMO. How is it okay for Jason Collins to proclaim his sexuality but not okay for Roy Hibbert to say what he said? The sexual preference of public figures is something that homosexuals use constantly to further their cause. When the other side says something, I don't believe it to be proper for the gay community and/or gay supporters to attempt to shame them or muzzle them. Simple as that.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur, *reaches out to Jason Collins* - NY Daily News

I don't think what he said was appropriate, but what was more egregious was him calling the media "y'all mother****ers."

And it's not the gay community shaming or muzzling anyone. The Pacers organization and the NBA did this of their own accord. They have a particular image they wish to uphold and they did what they had to maintain it.
 
Because insulting someone is not OK. For example - Do you think it's OK to say the n-word? Most people don't, and that's not even a liberal/conservative thing. Plus, he wasn't giving his opinion of Jason Collins as a person or as a ball player. He wasn't giving his opinion about homosexuality in general. He used the term "homo" as an insult toward LeBron James. Can you tell the difference?

I see. So it was just a general insult. Kind of like he could have said, "LeBron James plays like a retard." Oh, then it's okay then.
 
I don't wear panties, and it does not matter what his intentions were. One day you will realize--assuming that you actually do think--that punishing people for expressing unpopular opinions has a way to come around and bite you in the ass no matter how right you think you are in the moment.

He wasn't expressing an unpopular opinion. It's something you might have latched on to if you read the freaking article, but you were too busy feeling persecuted to do that. Assuming that you can read.

Maybe we should just say that insulting people with slurs is not OK. Me calling you a "pole smoker" is not expressing an unpopular opinion.
 
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