You know, I agree with just about everyone that Kobe Bryant shouting an anti-gay slur at a referee is awful.I'd feel weird describing any utterance of a star athlete as 'awful': To be required to express an opinion on Bryant's slur might give someone the impression I care--or know something--about professional sports.
That morality-laden language sports fans use, discussing their heroes, escapes me.
It’s a sign of deeply internalized homophobia, and it’s the kind of thing that should be and has been rightly decried.I'd prefer a more perfunctory public condemnation, instead of the Fecke-beloved pillory via psychoanalysis.
Jeff Fecke: Forever asserting 'obvious' moral or behavioral lessons that cry out for a person of Jeff Fecke's courage to come forward and solve--generally via spanking.
But honestly, Kobe Bryant is a rapist.I don't quite think Kobe Bryant would accept your conclusion above, Jeff--as I suspect Bryant believes 'to rape' presupposes some consciousness of guilt--and Bryant is claiming zero awareness thereof, until later. (Accidental rape sounds oxymoronic to most people.)
“Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did.” That’s a direct quote from Bryant. Of course, if she did not view the encounter as consensual — and Bryant admits she didn’t — then it wasn’t consensual. Therefore, it was rape, and therefore, Bryant is a rapist, whether convicted or not.
Perhaps feminists aver any man putting forth I thought it was consensual is lying.
But remember: Fecke isn't accusing Kobe Bryant of lying--he's claiming Bryant has admitted to being a rapist which, in reality, he has not. Fecke:
...he isn’t a good person. And so while I will gladly point out that this is further evidence that Kobe Bryant is a jerk of the highest order, and someone who decent people should shun assiduously, all the evidence we really needed of that happened one night several years ago in Colorado. If this shattered your image of Kobe, you need to seriously reassess why you viewed him as anything other than a scumbag; his talent for playing basketball does not excuse his sexual assault of a woman.If we had a comprehensive list of all the people Jeff Fecke believes decent people ought to shun, there'd be extremely few people left over to enjoy all the shunning.
And Fecke, of course, is a serial abuser of shunning--as he transparently uses it to muzzle dissent.
How might one know--without sentimental bias--if one lies among the decent or the shunned? Who gets to decide? Should evidence play any role? Might some sliver of due process be admitted?
And what is it that Fecke hopes all of the shunned do with their lives?
Should the shunned be legally prohibited from making eye contact with the decent people, Jeff?
