OT: Roy Hibbert Inappropriate Post-game Interview

[UCDaveD]

Kobe was fined $100k for using a gay slur, though I'd argue what Kobe said was worse than what Hibbert said.

Kobe called a ref a ' duck*tt'. Hibby said something that could be construed as a homosexual sex act and then clarified by affirming his heterosexuality.

 

[Joobie]

No doubt it was a STUPID thing of Roy to say, but there was no MALICE in it...unlike what Kobe said.

 

[Kitaman]

He said he wasn't a homo, interpretation 'I'm not gay". Stupid joke at an emotionally high time. He thought it was a cute old joke, something 'kids' say when they say an eye raising comment about themselves. More junior high than high school.

The NBA did the PC thing, but there is no story. Unless the world has changed, homo is not a slur, its short for homosexual (i.e. one way). Please explain to me the offensive part when someone says they only like women but in a different (i.e. in his case, not funny) way.

 

[storrsroars]

So if he had ended that sentence with "not that there's anything wrong with that," then I imagine he gets off scott-free. Because I hear an awful lot of supposedly tolerant people of all stripes throw that old Seinfeld line out there.

 

[JaYnYcE]

Eh. If somebody who's gay gets offended by someone else saying "no homo" it's not really your place to be the arbiter of whether or not they're being uptight. When Sergio Garcia said the fried chicken thing I wasn't going to run to Hootie Johnson for his take on whether or not people were overreacting.

I grew up in the Howard Stern generation. I could care less about fried chicken, watermelon or grape soda references. If you can't laugh at your own stereotypes than I don't know what to tell you. And yes I feel this nation is getting uptight because we're so PC about everything that people are wound up and can't truly express themselves.


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