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Well then, what about Jeff Garcia?
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Originally posted by baltassoc
I don't know. I'm no TO fan, but he seems like he's struggling with this issue. I would suspect the TO, and most football players, have never had to deal with someone who was openly gay. So he almost certainly has no empirical data from which to work. Given the homophobia that is often fostered among atheletes, this sounds pretty damn enlightened.
Once you factor in that TO is not exactly William Safire in terms of linguistic precision, I can be charitable and interpret this as him saying "I would react negatively to being hit on by a man, but that aside I am more concerned with performance on the job than a person's private life."
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This is such a stretch. Homophobic does not mean that he is going to beat up all gay people he meets. It means that he has fear or contempt for gay people. It does not mean that the fear or contempt is so overwhelming that it would prevent him from playing on the same team as a win-contributing gay player. It just means he has fear or contempt for gay people. If someone wants gay people to stay away from him and wants to stay away from gay people, that person is, almost by definition, homophobic. "Pretty damn enlightened"? You probably not only think that rats are inferior creatures, but that your views on the subject are remarkably progressive.
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