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More Lip Service from Hardaway

Sep 28, 2007 – 12:16 PM
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MJD already touched on this, but I'm angry and bored enough to give it a closer look. As reported by Lion in Oil, Tim Hardaway has made a good faith effort to make nice with the gay community. Hardaway spent some time at the YES Institute, which preaches tolerance and non-suicide.

Hardaway was "scared," I guess because of his past misdeeds and all the cooties in the room. But he overcame his weakness, and now is cool with the whole homo thing. The YES Institute website says so.

I'm calling b.s. on this one. It rings every bit as hollow as Michael Vick's heartfelt God-finding: a convenient, morally-sanctioned way to make amends. Then again, I was never wholly convinced that Hardaway was a steadfast homophobe. Let's not forget that his remarks came on the radio; he was trying to entertain, playing to the crowd. If you don't think that zany queer-bashing is part of talk radio's locker room culture, you obviously don't turn on the radio much.

I suspect that the real Tim Hardaway is somewhere between the two extremes. It's a shame that, because of his semi-celebrity status, we never get to see the real him.

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