Kobe Bryant: (The Rest Of The Title Would Be “Offensive”)

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God how I long for the days when nobody ever heard of political correctness.  Poor Nixon Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz makes a lame joke about good sex, shoes and warm place to go to the bathroom and he’s a terrible villain. On the other hand, would anyone have ever even gave a rat’s behind who Earl Butz was if he hadn’t made a lame joke about good sex, shoes and warm place to go to the bathroom?  So piss off all you politically correct defenders of all that is sensitive. Earl Butz will live forever in the hearts and minds of everyone and you’ll be whining away your lonely existences.

Howard Cosell made a faux pas when he said “look at that monkey run” while announcing a football game. No harm was intended. And Howard Cosell was no bigot. An ill thought out word blurted out doesn’t make someone a racist. Many times it means nothing more than someone blurted out an inappropriate word. If you’ve never done that then you’re either a mute, saint or liar.

Today’s despicable perpetrator or inappropriate word blurting is Laker’s star Kobe Bryant. He was called for a technical foul and in the heat of the moment used a term offensive to gays and those sympathetic to gays. The world is outraged. Thank Heaven the world doesn’t watch me when I leave a putt three feet short. Christians, Muslims, Women and Gays would be outraged. Despite my strong support for freedom of religion, Gay rights and equal pay for equal work.

Folks, I have no use for bigots, misogynists and homophobes. But if we all go around finding bigotry where there is none, the bigots win and we become the elitists everyone despises. Kobe Bryant apologized for using a word that is offensive to many. I also apologize. I’ll do my best to not use terms offensive to women and Gays next time I’m on the putting green.  I’ll also continue to support Women’s and Gay rights by speaking for them whenever I can and voting for candidates that believe that everyone deserves to be treated equally. And I’ll rot in Hell before I stop doing so. And anyone who disagrees with this perhaps should cover his ears if I’m in a bad mood when discussing the civil rights of Gays and Women. You may hear something offensive.
 

Breaking News: – Kobe Bryant is no angel


 
EDITOR’S NOTE – Kobe Bryant is reported to have called an NBA referee a “f*cking f*ggot” or was it a “fu*king fa**ot?”

 

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Joe Hagstrom

Reformed Liberal now dedicated to saving world from Obamacare and Godless Atheists. Using MadMike's America to audition for high paying job with Fox News.
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12 years ago

Sorry to bore you Joe. I was just trying to get some definitive answers from you about an issue you pretended to define and seemed to have an interest in and one that I feel very passionate about.
I guess you just wanted to say what you said and leave it at that. That’s cool.
Regards,
SH

Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

Sorry SG. I find the N word far more offensive.

And I’m also sorry but you’re are boring me with your attempts to start an argument and show everyone how tolerant and wonderful you are. If you want to think I’m a (insert your own explicative because no matter what I use you will find it offensive to someone) because I I’m not willing to put a label an someone before being surer than he used an offensive term so he’s as bad as David Duke and Hitler, then go tell everyone you showed me.

Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

If life were fair there would be no reason to have this conversation SG.

I’m sorry also.

Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

This isn’t about “fair.” Who mentioned fair? It’s about civility and acceptable prejudice.

Answer the question Joe:

What if a white player had used the “N” word the same way the “F” word was used? Would that have been ok or even excusable and would those who were pissed about just be “politically correct defenders?”

12 years ago

I’m sorry Joe, but your logic escapes me. When someone uses a derogatory word that is full of vileness and hatred I have no tolerance. Like I stated in my first remarks, I’m also fairly intolerant of “political correctness” from the granola chewing crowd, but hardcore slurs against any group of people are completely unacceptable.
My original concept: What if a white player had used the “N” word the same way the “F” word was used? Would that have been ok?

Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

Sagacious Hillbilly said: “It’s a shame we can’t have discussion and disagree here at Mike’s place without people coming out with personal attacks.”

In your first comment you told me to “STFU.” Then you accuse me of having a fragile ego in your second SH.

The bigots have won this one SH. But I will continue to draw a distinction for those like me who show insensitivity and poor taste from time to time. We may well deserve a few reproaching looks. But for what it’s worth to you or anyone else, if I was around when some idiot called your daughter “faggot” I would forget my age and physical infirmities and clock the shithead before your daughter got her shot in.

12 years ago

Joe,
Did you even read my post or did you just note the fact that someone disagreed with you and you had to blindly flip out in defense of your fragile ego? IF that’s the case, then my sympathies to you.

1. I never said you called anyone the “N” word. Read my post a little more carefully.
2. I don’t have to search for a reason to be outraged. If I wanted to be outraged (and at my age, i don’t), there are plenty of reasons these days to be so.

Perhaps I was not clear in my thoughts, so let me reiterate for you and those who may have had problems reading my english.
I said that calling someone a “Faggot” was just a severe as calling someone a “nigger.” I stand by that and I’ll also reiterate that if you want to see outrage, call my gay daughter a “faggot” in front of me and you’ll see a quick glimpse of outrage before your lights go out. Ditto you call my wife or one of my daughters “bitch.” If that is being overly politically correct, then so be it.
Do you really believe that using the term “faggot” is not “real bigotry?”

Yes, it would be nice if we had better manners in these times. Everyone seems to be combative and contentious at every turn. You seem to epitomize that with your response to my post. I suspect you are young and full of anger and if that’s the case, I wish you all the best in getting rid of your anger and being able to see the world more clearly.

It’s a shame we can’t have discussion and disagree here at Mike’s place without people coming out with personal attacks.
Regards,
SagaciousHillbilly

12 years ago

Go Joe!!!

Zocora
12 years ago

I’m with Hillbilly on this one. There are these things called manners. We need more of them and less of the self-centered “I do what I want!” mentality these days.

Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

Here’s the problem sagacious one. And you’re it.

When did I call any one an “N” word. (I don’t like using that word in any context)

You search for a reason to be outraged. Like the “young man” (hate to offend anyone offended by the word “boy” ) wo cried wolf, when real bigotry rears it’s head, thanks to comments like yours the bigots, idiots and homophobes can make light of it because people like you decided to be politically correct saviors of the world and find bigotry where there was none.

12 years ago

No, no, no you don’t get a pass when you call someone a “faggot” or anything like that any more than you’d get a pass if Kobe did something stupid and you called him a “nigger.”
I’m all for taking the ridiculously politically correct and telling them to stick their bullshit up their granola shitting asses, but certain name calling is out-of-bounds and can not be tolerated.
Step up and call my gay daughter a “faggot” and see how long you’re standing.
For me it’s not about political correctness. It’s about living in a civil society. We’ve become so hardened that it’s ok for people to walk around calling women “bitches.” WTF?!
Maybe I’m just old, afterall, I take my hat off when I walk through the doors of a building. I always remove my hat and wear a shirt at the dinner table and insist that my guests do the same. How archaic, huh? So perhaps it’s ok to call women bitches, gay people faggots and black people niggers. What? The last one isn’t ok but the other two are? STFU.

12 years ago

Growing up a faggot was a delicious meatball served with peas. The peas were of the dried variety and they were soaked for hours before cooking with the meatballs. The dish was called “Faggots and Peas”, so I am just wondering if the worldly Kobe was calling the ref a meatball?

12 years ago

Lawyer : You weren’t even on a hook

If I had the wings of an Angel
If I had the ass of a crow
I’d fly up above PC morons
And crap on the bastards below

….so there….;-)

Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

I wonder if Kobe asks if anyone has any Midol when he leaves a free throw short?

Money doesn’t make us more sensitive. Lack of money, as in my case, doesn’t either.

There’s a great joke in your comment Lawyer. I’m too girlie man to post it though. Oops. I did it again!

lazersedge
12 years ago

I understand Joe, I really do. On the other hand if I was making what Kobe was making, or perhaps what some of the top golf pros are making these days, I too would just apologize and keep on going. Yes they may absolutely nothing by such brain farts but they put themselves in front of millions of people when they are under pressure so they get to take the heat when they have one. “To err is human,..” millions of dollars buys a lot of salve to put on the self inflicted wound.

12 years ago

It is hard to be perfect. I was at a party once discussing something with a group of people. One of the people there is a homosexual male, which I knew. Another guy was talking about how someone had done him wrong. I blurted out that the offending character was a “cocksucker.” My gay friend said, “Hey, I resent that.” It took me a second, but I put two and two together and deduced where he was coming from. He laughed at the shock of embarrassment on my face and let me off the hook.

Michael John Scott
Reply to  The Lawyer
12 years ago

LOL! Great story and I’ve been there. My boss and I were driving in town one day and there was a beautiful girl on the sidewalk. I remarked: “Man I’d love to fuck that.” My boss slowed down, glanced over at me, and said “that’s my daughter.” Fortunately he also had a great sense of humor.

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