Tim, Tim, Tim
February 15th, 2007Tim Hardaway hates gay people.
Then he doesn’t. Does anybody buy these “apologies“? o
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February 15th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Love that Waltrip photo. Doesn’t look like eating crow tastes very good…
February 16th, 2007 at 4:14 am
the first link posted…my word, have you read the comments attached to that article??? i.e. ‘…the chances of getting AIDES for these people’. Those kind of people (commenting) really give a bad name to your country…
Thanks for posting the links. No, I don’t buy his apology and I think the fact he even spouted all that crap to the media is disgusting. I’m sorry but I don’t believe ‘free speech’ should include degradational and discriminational comments like that. His apology means absolutely nothing.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Oh please. Whenever one of these celebrities slip up and let their true feelings be known, somebody on their management “team” must damn near shit themselves and immediately start writing up a totally fake apology for them to recite on camera.
It’s quite obvious that:
-Michael Richards is a bigot
-Hardaway and the Grey’s Anatomy guy are homophobes
-Mel Gibson is anti-semitic
-Paris Hilton is all of the above, and add on a hatred for fat people and just about anyone else who isn’t just like her
Do they really think that people are big enough suckers to fall for their “apologies”? Actually……there probably are. They’re the same suckers who voted W into office for a second term.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Some people out there need to make like Thumper — if you don’t have anything nice to say then say nothing at all.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:14 am
As a girly girl, there I confessed it, I am so confused by that article. Here is a jerk saying horrible things, awful things, then a one sentence paragraph of an apology.
But *then* (this is the part that gets me), in the very same article just below all this awfulness, all the NBA scores from around the nation. Homophobia and oh, the Timberwolves been the Jazz. Huh?
February 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Linguist Geoff Nunberg did a piece on “false” apologies on Fresh Aire last month.
Audio is here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7030762
and the transcript is on his site:
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/nonapologies.html
“I apologize to anyone who may have been offended by the misinterpretation of my remarks.”
February 16th, 2007 at 11:42 am
How sad that people are still so ignorant to the fact that it is not a decision or choice to be gay, just as it isn’t a choice for those of us who are straight. I hope that sometime before I die I’ll be able to live in a world where this type of intolerance no longer exists, but I have a feeling that will never happen.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Good gracious Tim!
Now what if a white guy had said:
“You know, I hate black people, so I let it be known. I don’t like black people and I don’t like to be around black people, I’m negrophobic. I don’t like them. They shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States.”
And what if the same white guy had said this about a black player:
“First of all, I wouldn’t want him on my team. And second of all, if he was on my team, I would, you know, really distance myself from him because, uh, 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.”
Damn Timmy, but I bet you would have been upset by that huh?
February 18th, 2007 at 5:34 am
As a black person, I’m always surprised when other people of color are bigots, but I don’t feel that we should be held to a higher standard just because our race - a bigot is a bigot.
And as with homophobia, Charles, just because people aren’t saying it out loud doesn’t mean people don’t think those things about black people. But would it solve either? This guy clearly isn’t smart enough to see how similar his bigotry is to that of those who hate black people.
I’m sort of glad he said it out loud - at least he was honest, and honest comments like that is how discussion happens. Yes, it’s annoying and irritating and rude and inappropriate. But honestly often is, and this is how we move forward, through honest discussion, not through silencing people who don’t know better.
I don’t understand this whole apology craze. What is the point of it? All people are really sorry for is that they got in trouble, not that they are ignorant, hateful people. An apology doesn’t solve that particular issue.
February 18th, 2007 at 5:37 am
As a black person, I’m always surprised when other people of color are bigots, but I don’t feel that we should be held to a higher standard just because of our race - a bigot is a bigot.
And as with homophobia, Charles, just because people aren’t saying it out loud doesn’t mean people don’t think those things about black people. But would it solve either? Gay people can be racists just as black people can be homophobes - the knowledge of the other’s feelings isn’t going to solve this problem. This guy clearly isn’t smart enough to see how similar his bigotry is to that of those who hate black people.
I’m glad he said it out loud - at least he was honest, and honest comments like that is how discussion happens. Yes, it’s annoying and irritating and rude and inappropriate. But honestly often is, and this is how we move forward, through honest discussion, not through silencing people who don’t know better.
I don’t understand this whole apology craze. What is the point of it? All people are really sorry for is that they got in trouble, not that they are ignorant, hateful people. An apology doesn’t solve that particular issue.