Kevin Hart Receives Ironic Gay Justice

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Kevin Hart refusing to apologize for tweet about Gays. Pic by Vanity Fair

by Joe Hagstrom

One day comedian Kevin Hart is on top of the world. He’s been named to host this year’s Oscar Awards Show. God bless him. Not long after previous “tweets” posted by him and stand up comedy material of him being insensitive to Gays come out and now the poor guy has to withdraw as Oscars host. Man, he really got it shoved up his ass,

Mr. Hart says he’s a different and better person now from the one who used material insensitive to Gays and publicly hoped his son wouldn’t grow up to be Gay. I believe him. And God bless the Gay Community, it may not have actually been the Gay Community that made Kevin’s previous stuff about Gays public, I don’t know, but just as with Al Franken, rather than having someone who is remorseful and willing to speak out for justice, empathy and understanding, the people who are hating on the Frankens and Harts of this world are only driving more people whose crime is a lack of good taste in humor away from those who find offense in anything they see as an opportunity.

Kevin Hart has made a career of being the brunt of short people jokes. I applaud him for not claiming his detractors are hating him for his lack of height or they’re bigots against him because of his skin color. He just apologized for his past words and withdrew as Oscars host. Just as Al Franken left the Senate. They left the stage with class. Unlike their detractors who will continue to act as self-righteous enforcers of whatever they find offensive. Or most likely, whatever they think they can use to achieve whatever it is they want to achieve. No different from one of my Republican friends trying to force our version of morality down the throats of the public.

I think the Oscars show would have been far better with Kevin Hart hosting. I know the United States Senate was a better institution with Senator Al Franken. But these two, and America as far as I’m concerned, got bent over when these two fell prey to not high-minded individuals fighting for a better society, but petty opportunists who deserve neither respect or attention.

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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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Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

Daft in’t it? Sticks and stones n all that 😀

Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

Mike. : I’m not getting it. I agree with all of that. None of that includes being rude or offensive. Neither is inciting hatred or violence.

All I’m trying to say is – we either accept we may be upset or offended sometimes or we compromise freedom of speech.

I’ve been called a ‘Twat’ something or other right here at MMA. As it happens my Rhino hide couldn’t care less but, some would be upset or offended.

Even if it did bother me I would defend their right to call me that.

We can’t have freedom of speech watered down just cause some are so offended by whatever the latest offended craze happens to be.

jess
Reply to  Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

Who called you a Twat here and did it end in waffle because I have called people that, I have called one person in particular a twatwaffle and it made Mike laugh, so I call her it again and again.
The way I had it explained to me a long, long time ago by my dad, Jessica Marie(always full name when I was caught doing something I shouldn’t have been doing) everyone has the right to say whatever nasty stuff that is in their head and you have the right not only to reply to that nasty stuff but to walk away and be offended but they have the right and you cannot and must not take that from them because it could be you next that it gets taken from and you would not like that because you and your opinions matter no matter how bad someone else thinks they are. This was after someone called me a camel jockey when I was 11 (yeah I’m half Indian but the ignorance knows no bounds with middle school kids) when they found out I was part Indian and my dad found me in tears, plotting a revenge that included superglue and a beanie hat. The superglue and beanie hat revenge is why I got the full name treatment from dad.

jess
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
5 years ago

I want full make up team and a fancy dress and shoes with shiny baubles for my neck and ears to go along with that. Is there room in the budget, if not you need to find someone else because I have nothing to wear and it’s fancy.

jess
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
5 years ago

I KNEW it, Jesus IS a gay guy. Come on, how many straight men do you know do hair and make up. Me, I don’t know any.

jess
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
5 years ago

Aha! Were I to go on a tear or rant about him being gay or straight, then it would be hypocritical of me but I am ok with “teh gheyz” and teh straights (them especially if they are named any of the Chrises, Evans, Pine, Hemsworth etc, unless they are my best friend right now who is letting his dick do the thinking and then all bets are off because I am NOT OK with him right now. Just saying is all, he’s being such an idiot it isn’t even funny. I have to don thinking cap to rid him of this meddlesome guy that he has attached himself to because he is vile, nasty and a taker and does not deserve my friend at all.

jess
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
5 years ago

Joe you probably won’t be saying anything I have not said already to him and about him in my head probably.

Reply to  jess
5 years ago

Oh yeah! Jesus is big time gay. He makes Robin Williams in “The Bird Nest” look like Jason Strathan 🙂

jess
Reply to  Professor Mike
5 years ago

Oh you are so lucky you are straight right now, getting that all kinds of wrong otherwise I’d have to have your gay card revoked. It’s The Birdcage not The Bird Nest you uncultured you 😉 Oooooh Jason, another one I would like the kids say, if given the chance 😉 This is one of those movies I will watch over and over again and can quote endlessly, it’s so very good.

Bill Formby
Reply to  jess
5 years ago

Jess, while you would not need such finery to make you look great we would allow you only the best for your appearance in a limousine so long that the drive will have left when you arrive.

jess
Reply to  Bill Formby
5 years ago

Thank you Bill and I promise I will turn in the loaned jewelry and clothing after the show, the driver of the vehicle, depends on what he or she looks like and the chemistry between us, may not get turned in right away. Hey, it’s been a while what can I tell you 😉

jess
5 years ago

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have to do it together just one time, like they have in the past for Golden Globes, come on just once have these two do it. I like Kevin Hart too and was shocked when he dropped off because I’ve seen Chelsea Handler do homophobic stuff in her stand up and nothing gets said to her. Maybe it’s because he was saying..oh fuck I give up I don’t know I like him and will watch his movies because some of them have been quite funny depending on who he has been co starring with.

Reply to  jess
5 years ago

Tina and Amy are the best! Love those guys.

Bill Formby
Reply to  jess
5 years ago

Jess, I think the difference is that Chelsea often has gays on her show and has been openly supportive of there causes. This is similar to my point about Don Rickles who was known to show up at functions for blacks with Sammy Davis Jr., and to to just about every other cause any other group had that needed support during his days. There are a few folks who can get away with that because people understand the joking and they know where the line to to be crossed is located.

Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

Freedom of speech includes the right to be rude and offensive if you are nasty enough to be so inclined.

Otherwise you would be banned from saying anything that upsets or offends Trump.

You want that? Crack on then.

Reply to  Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

I would actually debate this with you, but I expect it would be an exercise in futility as you have already missed the entire point. Anyway, here’s a just a few things freedom of speech doesn’t guarantee:

1) To incite actions that would harm others (e.g., “[S]hout[ing] ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”).
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).

2) To make or distribute obscene materials.
Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957).

3) To burn draft cards as an anti-war protest.
United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968).

4) To permit students to print articles in a school newspaper over the objections of the school administration.
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988).

5) Of students to make an obscene speech at a school-sponsored event.
Bethel School District #43 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986).

6) Of students to advocate illegal drug use at a school-sponsored event.
Morse v. Frederick, __ U.S. __ (2007).

As for politicians like that fat pig wallower squatting in the People’s House, we can pretty much say anything except threaten to kill him. Pols are fair game.

Bill Formby
5 years ago

I started watching Kevin Hart when he was first on his way up. I liked his stand up less than I liked Eddie Murphy’s, which means it was pretty bad. Obviously that is just my opinion because he has done very well for himself. I do believe my gay friends need to get in line with others who were probably offended by Hart’s stand up routine. His number one target was, of course, white people in general, and then people of his own race, But I just did not find him very funny. I still don’t. I think that Don Rickles perfected the art of verbally abusing people and making them laugh while he did it. He did it to everyone equally and everyone understood that it was a joke. I think that Rickles secret was that everyone one knew that he was a really sweet and caring guy. Some comedians these days forget that those old guys had work long and hard at their craft earning respect before they were knocking on people. They did not start that way. While I will agree that Hart did apologize for his language toward gays it should have been before now. I don’t think his attitude has change but his desire for exposure has and he or his agent should have saw this coming from a mile away.

Glenn R. Geist
5 years ago

It seems like a bit of a club – the League of the Easily Offended. But the ability to retaliate against rudeness or some offense real or imagined is an indicator of which crusade is in power and which is not. It right to claim offense is hotly contested.

I’m offended by it.

Reply to  Glenn R. Geist
5 years ago

Remember the poor bastard who jokingly mentioned “lingerie” when the elevator stopped? Everyone laughed except some professor (a woman) who found it sexist and insulting. Went after his job and all.

Glenn R. Geist
Reply to  Professor Mike
5 years ago

Yep. It’s all about groups who set standards and make rules and proclamations, thus forbidding any opinion that isn’t absolutely congruent. It’s all about power and not so much about decency. And in any such group, zealotry is the road to leadership.

It’s not that I’m anti-feminist or anti-gay or anything else or that I don’t listen. I just want to temper the extremism and the lust for vengeance.

I got chewed out last week for mentioning that “woke” is the past tense of wake and I prefer not to use someone else’s dialect. Shouldn’t have done that!

Holte Ender
5 years ago

Good stuff Joe.

Some people are easily offended. I know a guy who gets offended if you don’t say “you’re welcome” after he says “thank you”, offended to the point where he will say “thank you” again in an effort to entice a “you’re welcome” from me. Politeness required by gentle intimidation.

Some people cry free speech so they can be rude. Fake free speech.

Glenn R. Geist
5 years ago

I’m so removed from popular culture, I admit I don’t know who he is. I’ve never heard him perform and I’m unlikely to watch the Oscars on TV.

None the less, I can’t imagine that whatever he said rises to the level of endangering public safety and I can’t support the idea of anyone saying anything in bad taste (and no matter what you say, it will offend someone) must be banned from ever working anywhere again. I worry as much about the death of humor as I do about the melting ice caps.

And of course we get more extreme in our definitions of racism and other speech crimes with respect to comedians and refuse to praise the right with faint damnation. Does some joke, good natured or otherwise compare to what comes from the mouth of the Trumpers every hour? Is Doctor Suess to be banned yet we have to listen to accusations that “liberals” are insane, and child molesters and stupid without doing a damned thing? We give freedom of speech to Fox, but Dr. Suess is the quintesscence of evil? I call hypocrisy and double standard.

Joe Hagstrom
5 years ago

A great irony is that as host of the Oscars one is required to hurl insults non stop for around 4 hours.

Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

I don’t know the chap nor his material but, as long as he wasn’t inciting violence nor hatred then it should have been cool.

Freedom of speech includes the right to offend. Otherwise it ain’t freedom of speech.

Not my rules. Freedom of speech rules.

Reply to  Neil Bamforth
5 years ago

Actually, you are wrong about that old bean. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can say anything you want, at any time. For example, you aren’t allowed to yell “fire” in a crowded theater unless there is actually a fire, and you can’t go around insulting people based on some freedom of speech context. For example, tell your boss his wife has a fat ass, and see how long you keep your job.

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