Bigotry Watch: The real outrage isn’t that Kobe Bryant said “fag”

[William769]

Kobe Bryant, the Lakers’ superstar basketball player, Tuesday night looked straight into a TNT TV camera and called the referee a “fucking fag.”

Bryant’s defense? “Frustration.”

It took Bryant three attempts and twenty-four hours to reconcile the situation with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community and their allies, but if his attempts — at least at first — felt half-hearted, perhaps it’s because they were.

While Internet platforms like Twitter and Facebook voraciously took to the controversy, it was plain Bryant’s fans and defenders out-numbered his LGBT-supporting opponents — if not in number, at least in volume.

Ironically, Bryant’s words could not have been more relevant.

http://www.365gay.com/opinion/bigotry-watch-the-real-outrage-isnt-that-kobe-bryant-said-fag/

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1. Shows lack of imagination

If they can't call someone a F*G, some people just don't know what to say. They've run out of insults. We're really asking a lot of the rest of society to not use our names in vain here. You watch a film like 'The Departed', and it seems there are no other insults to be found.

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2. browser duplicated n/t

[joeybee12]

3. He, like too many others, think it's no big deal...that the problem is that

it was caught on camera.

yeah, read the comments on any site after the story and they are appalling.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Kobe is a wimp who wraps himself in 'protected status' on so

many levels. He's Babyman, Superstar. Pitiful to see.

[costahawk1987]

5. Loved the old Lakers...

Can't stand them now--because of him! Now, this makes my new favorite team: anybody playing the Lakers.