comparing a little verbal jab to the Halimi story is preposterous. Pingback: Mark Cuban kind of apologizes for homophobic wisecrack « News & Opinion on LGBT – get over yourself. You just feel good, that’s all, and you felt like letting the world know it. That assumption may be part of why you feel good, but it does not mean (yet again) you care what people think of you. You imagine this needed to be said, and it will in some way gratify or enlighten those who read it. You do not give a damn if others do, or what they think. None of this means you will not seek to become a better version of yourself, though apparently you do not spend undue time considering in what areas this may be possible.īecause, when it comes right down to it, you like yourself. You will not waste time considering even the content of what others think, because you do not care what they think.
You are what you are (which will surprise those who thought you might be someone different from yourself). Because, to repeat, you do not care what others think of you. This does not mean you won’t offend people in the future, either thru misunderstanding or because they deserve to be offended, in your view, and you may take pleasure in offending, as you do in harmless (to you) fart jokes. Then why are you writing this non-apology? To feel better, which you have succeeded in doing. You totally do NOT care what people think of you. You are not, emphatically! You sometimes make mistakes in your spontaneous habit of speech, but when you do, you immediately correct them… as you did on the recent occasion which gave rise to (unnecessary) controversy. This does not mean you are politically correct. You are NOT a homophobe, in fact, have nothing against any group of people. So let’s see if I have this straight, Mr. I’m the guy who still feels bad about punching Michael Cooper in the stomach in 6th grade purely because he was overweight, even though I made the point to apologize to him when I ran into him at a reunion years later. But I think being the person I want to be includes not blurting out throw away jokes about sexuality, race, ethnicity, size, disability or other things people have no say in about themselves. I honestly don’t give a shit what you think about me. I’m the last to be politically correct and the last thing I am trying to be here is politically correct. Sometimes I make stupid throw away comments that I quickly realize are wrong.
There are a lot of things in my life that I need to improve at. I guess what I am doing is admitting that at some level I am prejudiced and that I recognize that I am.
I’m not trying to justify anything at all. I’m not trying to convince you I’m not a homophobe. I’m not trying to defend my sense of humor. This blog post is not about trying to defend what I said. I hoped at the time I didn’t offend anyone. I quickly realized it and tried to fix it. It wasn’t a comment on anyone’s sexuality. I quickly realized that the comment wasn’t appropriate, so I added “”Or his girlfriend, this is gender-independent commentary,” The interviewer mentioned it and commented “I like the Kiss Cam,” In response to the interviewer comment, I said “That’s because you and your boyfriend are always on it,” During the conversation the topic of the Kisscam at sporting events came up. This past week I did an interview at a sports conference.
It may even offend them if it comes out at the wrong time. I hope I’m 95 and still laughing at dumbass jokes.īut sometimes what I laugh at isn’t appreciated by others. Like my high school buddy Todd, who I still refer to by his high school nickname, Boafy (don’t even remember how he got that name) says, every guy laughs at a fart joke. Not every guy does. I’m the first to admit that sometimes my humor runs to the sophomoric. Things make me laugh that may or may not make you laugh. That doesn’t mean that I’m always completely sensitive to everyone I engage with. I’m happy to take the responsibility to be your friend, your acquaintance or if I don’t like you, what you do or how you do it for whatever reason, to completely ignore you. I also don’t care who you tell about it or if you flaunt it. I have come to realize, intellectually, that I personally don’t give a shit about your sex life, your spiritual life, your personal life, whatever. I do however feel that all of us can learn to accept everyone. I don’t know if its nature or nurture, but I don’t believe any of us on this earth is so pure that we absolutely accept everyone as they are. There are things we all innately fear or are uncomfortable with. I think at some level every single one of us is prejudiced.