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[QUOTE="ndmb, post: 2056463, member: 612"]
This reminds me of an oldish youtube video about [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc']talking to people about racism[/URL].  Often, it seems that conversations about a person's statements or actions get derailed by a conversation about the person themselves.  That's obviously a waste of time because none of us can peer into Candice's soul and know whether she treats people the same regardless of their sexual orientation.  And it's not relevant.

What she said did is what matters here, not how she really feels deep down, and what she did was, as Orangutan put it: invoke "a persistent and harmful stereotype about women's sports generally and the WNBA specifically - the players are lesbians and straight women are unwelcome. In doing so, she made a blatantly false statement, i.e."98 percent"."

What she did was homophobic, I think we can all get why someone might refer to someone who said something homophobic as a homophobe, so let's not derail the "what she did" conversation by making it a "who she is" conversation.
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