Hey, this is a days old post, stop reporting it and discussing whether or not the use of the n-word is okay or not. That is troll bait and I get why you respond once, but stop after that. The people refuting the word were pretty good under the circumstances, so I’m not locking it yet. If I removed your comment, it’s so the troll baiting won’t work anymore on anyone else.
Edit: Stop reporting the actual post, not the comments in it. I’ll go over everything. Always report the kind of crap going on inside the comment section. Sorry about that, I missed a lot.
My response when told…Oh no, a dead racist.
Rest in Piss
I mean, he had a point.
Just kidding, he was a piece of shit
if you didn’t before, now you know why he was campaigning for mango mussolini
I guess we’re all a little racist.
Cope. Racists simply can’t imagine that being a hateful bigot makes them a bad person- so they HAVE to pretend that everyone feels that way but we just keep it quiet.
I had a co-worker who insisted he wasn’t racist, but he did hate ‘Sand-Nwords’. He said “Everybody hates one group or another”. He refused to believe that I hate literally no one in the world because of their race.
sand-nwords? What would that be? A slur for the nomads of the Saharra? Bedouines?
This was a derogatory term for middle easterners that cropped up (to my awareness, anyway, and I don’t care to go searching around to fact check myself on this point) in the xenophobia following 9/11.
You’re going to have to research that on your own. I didn’t ask for clarification and I don’t care to know what he meant tbh.
Seems like it would be for anyone brown tbh. Y’no, cause racists think all brown people lve in the desert.
Yeah, this is straight up “I have a black friend” and citing the wealthy basketball payer as worthy is “You’re one of the good ones.”
Bet if questioned publicly he’d have said he’s not racist.
He tried to walk it back after facing the consequences- who knows if it was genuine or an attempt to salvage his reputation.
“Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it; and I apologize for having done it. This is not who I am. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise. I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs.”
Isn’t it so crazy how these people talking casually among their friends is never “who they are” but them walking it back via a publicist because it hurt them is who they actually are?
Just sooo crazy! And the one and only time they’re talking like “someone they’re not” someone happens to be recording it and it’s bad for their career! The world sure is a crazy place
Yeah weird that. The only reason I gave him the slightest benefit of the doubt was because it had been 8 years and people can change a lot in that amount of time. They usually don’t, but it’s possible. I guess a generic publicist written apology is better than doubling down on your ignorance, but I’m almost certain it was simply to protect ‘the brand’.
It’s kind of fitting in a way that he turned out to be a chud. I was never huge into wrestling, but there was a couple of years there between 4 and 6th grade that I would watch it, Hulk was my favorite because he had a positive message and seemed to be a decent guy. His theme song “I am a real American, fight for the rights of every man” resonated with me because I was young enough and ignorant enough to believe in ‘America’ and that it was founded on everyone being equal. As I got better informed and saw that this country was built upon White Men being equal, and everyone else is treated as a subhuman- I realized that the American Dream was a lie and this country was built upon white supremacy, slavery, and genocide. So to find out ol dude was ‘A real American’ after all is just icing on the ironic cake.
Never look up to anyone. Be your own hero.
Sounds like a generic, well-edited apology that we hear far too often from people that usually don’t mean it.
For sure. I don’t believe it was genuine personally.
While racist, yes, it’s funny how money appears to be the bigger issue to him. Sounds like he would be cool with Diddy.
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Jesus Fucking Christ
I knew he as trash but … yuck
Dude was also the reason unions in wrestling never went anywhere. So a racist and a fucking union buster sellout. Good riddance.
How?
He ratted out Jesse Ventura to McMahon when Jesse was trying to get his wrestling colleagues to join a union. Source.
ventura dint do any favors either, basically he said f you guys your on your own if you dint unionize with me, he only said it because had a backup plan, a union with sag-aftra, so it basically abandoned them, dint care about thier potential fall out. the wrestlers dint have much power it at the time, if the other wrestlers were also actors, they wouldve unionize, most of them were scared to do so.
he also has a history with PETER THIEL too, because thiel bankrolled hogans lawsuit against Gawker, as part of a vendetta for reporting on his business pratices, plus him being gay.
Losing Gawker was a big turning point for the public having a consistent satirical biting rag news site. Looking back, losing gawker probably contributed to the enshitification of Reddit too with the influx of Gawker commenters. We may never have been able to avoid the current reality but if Gawker was around still it would have certainly been different.
thiel backing the lawsuit, just made a Conservative activism in the courts, which paved the way from right wing groups backed by russia and funded to introduce legislation or lawsuits against (non-religious laws)
Yeah, after Ventura tried to get them to unionize and Hogan messed it all up, Ventura bailed. He was already unionized as an actor before approaching them, but saw the obvious benefits of a union and wanted them to have the same. If he was really their friend, he would’ve fought harder for them to have what he had.
oh yea, i place some of the blame on ventura too, hes the one who started it, he shouldve finished it instead he just ditched them, he was only able to speak from him position, because already was an actor with sag aftra. he shoulve known a lowly wrestler isnt going to have many negotiating positions in a union formation.
plus him being gay.
that’s no excuse /s
I forgot who was trying to organize the union (Ventura??), but Hogan found out and ran to Vince McMahon.
I know next to nothing about this topic but heard in an interview with Ventura, that Hogan was the only one of that league (or how they call it) who had already signed a fat contract with a higher league and that the unionization would have put that into risk of not proceeding.
Edit: Found the interview. It was a bit different than I remembered but not much.
https://youtu.be/nt5mRyIyOzU?t=2947 (at 49:07)
She had two white kids. So, I guess she took this one to heart.
Gawker media died for this post.
nothing of value was lost back then either, they kept pushing bs clickbait and calling it journualism
BS clickbait is annoying, but it shouldn’t be made literally illegal.
Gawker was found civilly liable for defamation after publishing details from Hulk Hogan’s sex tape. They also published a recording of the quote in the OP, I don’t remember if it was from that tape or a separate incident. The size of the judgement against them basically bankrupted the company.
BS clickbait is, for better or worse, still completely legal.
They also defied the court order to take it down by republishing the video in an article titled something like “the court wants to bury this but we refuse”.
He’s right, everyone is a little racist. That’s what happens when you’re raised in a racist society.
But that shit was really racist
And it was said privately that somebody filmed. Doesn’t make it right but neither is releasing a private tape.
Conservatives would do well to behave like everything they say in private will be published. If they can’t be good people out of empathy they can be good people out of fear.
In most states if you’re party to a conversation you have a right to record it and share it with others if you’d like. Federally it’s legal too, including phone calls. Some states do restrict recording without informing all parties, but most don’t as it’s important means of protecting yourself sometimes.
I emphasized “if you’re party” above because it’s an important distinction. In many situations you cannot record the conversation of others if you’re not an active participant, though there are exceptions for things said/done in public and in/on your property.
I just don’t understand how private sex tapes get leaked. First of all, do people really regularly film themselves having sex? Also, surely only the couple would have a copy, and surely you’d trust someone before making such a tape, no?
I’m just amazed each time it happens.
Ozzy dragged Hogan down on his way to Hell to do us all a favor
If we’re doing “old guys with reality shows in the early 2000s”, I know a person that would complement this specific rule of three very well.
Dude pulled nearly $200,000,000 for charity giving his last concert. If he deserves to be hell, Hogan should be elsewhere.
You don’t understand, Ozzy Osbourne is not damned, he is there simply because he wants to trip crazy train with Allister Crowley
Ozzy would be there because it’s metal, Hogan would be there to suffer.
Ozzy once played a wise badass in a game about ruling hell, Brütal Legend. This is him now aha
That was a fun game. Not a good game, but one with an amazing premise. Gotta re-watch some lets plays.
Metal, Noise, Blood, and Fire tell me what you most desire.
It’s not that Ozzy deserves to be in hell. It’s because, being the Prince of Darkness, he bought some nice real estate there.
He’s one of the ones that can come and go as he pleases
Don’t put him in hell or it’s going to kill the vibe down there. Shove him in heaven with all the other insufferable dicks.
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun, darlin’ only the good die young.
(Which, if no one’s noticed, is about a guy trying to get in the pants of a Catholic school girl.)
I have quite a few people of the same age in mind that I’d much rather have seen dragged to hell - not that I am too bothered with Hogan
