June 22, 2006

• Well, I guess its time to blog about the story that has everybody
  talking, Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called Sun-Times columnist Jay
  Marriotti a fag. First of all, being a rabid, huge Cub fan, I’m
  officially not supposed to like Ozzie, but I do think he is a great
  manager and would kill to have him manage the Cubs. As for Marriotti, I
  don’t read him often, but I can honestly say, he never has a good thing
  to say about anybody. Now, onto the issue of the day. This is one of
  those stories in which everybody has an opinion, and as a gay baseball
  fan living in the Chicagoland area, of course, I have an opinion too.
  Obviously, he shouldn’t have said it. The question is, is Ozzie Gullian
  homophobic? The knee jerk reaction that offended people have is a
  resounding yes. Others say its just Ozzie being Ozzie. And yet others
  have other opinions, as one simple minded fuck called up to a radio
  station said “you can’t compare it to somebody using a racial slur,
  because gay people choose to do something that they know is morally
  wrong.” Ok, I’m not even going to go there. Yet. Let’s just breakdown
  what Ozzie said. I’m going to stereotype here. Let’s face it, sports is
  filled with gay bigotry and people that are filled with homophobia.
  Ozzie is hispanic, and sad to say, most minorities do not approve of
  gays. I know, it might sound bad for me to say that, but let’s face it,
  its true. And in sports, the word fag is thrown around. A lot. When
  Jordan was with the Wizards, he called Kwame Brown a “flaming faggot.”
  Lions GM Matt Millen once called a Chiefs player a faggot. Those are
  just 2 examples. And now, of course, Ozzie. He tried to apologize and
  say that he didn’t mean to offend gays, saying something to the effect
  of  “I know lots of them kind of people”, which is something
  bigoted people do when they offend a certain class of people, they
  state their racial or gay resume, as I like to say. Honestly, I’m sure
  he didn’t intend on offended gays. But what he and many others just
  don’t get is that when you call a straight person that, you are
  basically treating gays like 2nd class citizens. Its as if you are
  saying “I’m really upset, so I’m going to call him something that is
  one of the worst things you can be, and that is gay.” Allow me to offer
  an analogy. Back in the day, God fearing people thought the worst thing
  that could happen to you was to be damned to hell by God. So, the
  phrase “God Damn” came into use. Its sorta along those same lines. Fag
  or faggot represents being gay, and being gay is morally wrong, so I’m
  going to use it to really insult somebody, because nobody wants to be
  called gay. And therefore, it is just like using a racial slur, only in
  a way, its worse. Because, calling somebody the “N” word is usually
  only used against blacks. You wouldn’t call a white or asian person the
  “N” word. But, the term fag or faggot, that can be used to apply to
  anybody. And lets say for argument’s sake, being gay was a choice,
  which as we know, it certainly is not. But, just for the case of the
  argument. What would be so wrong about being gay? How would being gay
  be any more morally wrong than, say, oral sex? That dope that called
  the radio station, I bet he likes a good blow job from his girlfriend.
  Yet, calling her a cocksucker would probably really piss him off, even
  though, using his moral standards, being a cocksucker is morally wrong.
  In closing, none of these gay or racial slurs are acceptable and should
  never be tolerated. People have freedom of speech, so they should not
  be held legally accountable for anything they say, but from other
  standpoints, yeah, they should be held accountable.

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