Kevin Hart is just being 4 real.
It would have been pretty easy to apologize and just say he changed. Heâs a public figure. It wouldnât be be hard to see if he was still going on about this stuff but instead he did what he did. Also, in comedy you punch up not down.
Oh, i thought he had apologised for it all.
My understanding is when it came out in the year it was released, he didnât apologize and complained about people being sensitive. Then it came out this year and he was asked to apologize, refused, lost his gig and then apologized. His guys I am almost 40 spiel is at the end of what was kind of a weird road. Some of those tweets might not actually be jokes either.
Itâs weird because KH usually has a sort of humble, self-effacing type of humor. But I guess bashing gays is more important.
I have heard it argued that the context of the jokes has to do with him poking fun at his own gay panic.
Unfortunately, at a certain point, you almost always become your persona eventually, even if it started as schtick. Even if was intended as self-satirical at one point, once it gets enough momentum, it takes on a life of its own.
Much like Louis C K joking about masturbation?
Not sure what point youâre trying to make, but sure.
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Sports writer uses âtrannyâ in a story. It is unclear if it was intended as an indirect quotation meant to be attributed to the subjects of the story. Apparently it was an (extremely) ill-advised attempt at a joke [see below].
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Many people are offended by this idiotic word choice. Story is edited with an apology from the editors.
Editorâsâ note: We deeply apologizeâ forâ the offensiveâ languageâ originally published inâ thisâ story.â It failed toâ meetââ our editorial standards and we commit to doing better moving forward.
- Writer apologizes in the comments of the story in question:
I was completely wrong. Completely wrong. It was a a foolish, tasteless joke that was mistakenly posted for less than 10 minutes. I wonât even bother explaining the joke because it doesnât matter. It was just wrong. Everybody who is angry at me has every reason to be. I am angry at myself. I apologize profusely.
- Apology is accepted by the community at large, and everyone moves on.
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Ahahaha, you didnât actually buy that for a second. No, Deadspin at least isnât having any of this apology shit.
Thereâs no reason to doubt that Thompson feels bad for fucking this up, but âI wonât even bother explaining the joke because it doesnât matterâ is inadequate as an apology not only because it doesnât explain why the word was used or how it made its way through the editorial process[âŚ]
Even in a year that has seen some spectacular misadventures in profile writingâ [âŚ] âthis one stands out.
Yeeeeaaahh okay. I mean, if you are pissed off at the writer and the editors and probably the athletes involved, by all means, be pissed off. I would hardly expect everyone to hug it out after a dipshit use of an offensive word.
But fucking Christ, there is no apology good enough for some people. I mean, dude straight up owned it and apologized in no uncertain terms, condemning his dumbass mistake and committing to doing better in the future. ThatâsâŚthatâs pretty much best-case.
This part seems a bit much. You guys donât even get my awesome joke! Take that out and the apology seems fine to me.
I read that more as "the joke was in no way good enough to justify using that word so Iâm not even going to bother going down that road. "
Deadspin is garbage more often than not, so this isnât surprising.
But it was funny when they told Ted Cruz to eat shit.
Ask them again in few weeks, even a good apology needs a little time to simmer. Apologies donât insta magic emotions away, they usually help though.
I think you are looking at this the wrong way. He is apologizing for using the term, but he also isnât answering the question as to why he used that term in the first place. Basically, was he quoting Steph Curry? Did he throw in his own garbage? They arenât arguing that his apology is oddly hinting at him covering up something deeper.
Either Thompson made a bigoted joke without anyone at The Athletic noticing until the story was published, or he clumsily described something newsworthy and The Athletic hastily deleted it, or he fabricated something entirely. None of these possibilities reflect well on the writer or the publication, but whichever describes what happened, itâs worth an explanation.
The apology specifically goes out of its way to further incriminate the writer, because he either made up something that didnât happen, or he is covering for the subject of his article, or he made up a stupid thing that had nothing to do with the story.
They all look bad, and this apology makes it look like he is trying to cover something up
Making things more confusing is what the Warriors had to say: âNo such exchange ever transpired between Stephen and Mistah F.A.B., hence the removal of the line from the story,â a team flack told Deadspin.
This explanation, Thompsonâs apology, and the editorâs note are all saying different things. The Warriors say it never happened; they are accusing Thompson of fabrication, the cardinal sin of journalism. Thompson says it was a joke, but fails to explain whose joke it was, what it was, or how it got published. The editorâs note merely apologizes for the âoffensive language,â without addressing whether the conversation happened or why the âjokeâ appeared in the story.
All around great stuff from the Athletic.
Totally agree.
Idk man, I think itâs pretty well covered that he was trying (and badly failing) to make a (weak) joke (probably related to the whole stupid Dwight Howard thing).
But whatevs. I donât have a dog in this race other than my general eyeroll at the over-the-top demands for public flogging even after a decent apology. Like I said, dude used a shitty word that has no place there. Heâs eating some rightful shit about it. Another Tuesday on the Internet.
I think the Mika Brzezinski thing was already posted in another thread, but the apology and its backlash probably deserve to like here.
The skinny is that Brzezinski was criticizing SecState Pompeo over the Saudi murder of Khashoggi, and spake thusly:
The âbutt-boyâ comment raised the expected Twitter objections, and Brzezinski quickly provided a Twitter apology:
https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/1072856682303275009
She was not on the âMorning Joeâ show the following day, but she apologized on-air this morning, specifically apologizing to the âLGBT Communityâ.
Pretty decent apology in my opinion; both the short Twitter version and the lengthier on-air apology.
Of course with her history with the Shitgibbon-in-Chief, that was never going to suffice, and the right-wing pundits have begun to howl that such a comment would have gotten any conservative commentator fired immediately.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073269881334849536
A few have been comparing her statement with the posts that got Kevin Hart self-booted from the Oscars.
They will raise hell, of that Iâm sure. I heard Mikaâs comment and didnât do anything but chuckle at it. Iâd have gone with something a bit in use, though, like bootlicker or toady.