Hate! It's an Irrational Thing
Driving home from work, I was listening to my local sports channel, which an ESPN radio personality was talking about Tim Hardaway's anti-gay rhetoric, given in response to some interviewers questioning him, following retired NBA player John Amaechi "coming out of the closet". Mr Hardaway said that he "hated gay people". He was pretty up front and straight forward about it. One even has to admire his honesty, especially in this day and age of politicial correctness. Anyway, the female radio personality commented, rightly, that hate was an irrational response, and that it was wrong because of that, and that hate had no place in the NBA or anywhere else. Now, I am not quoting her, but basically paraphrasing her intent her. In one way I do agree with what she said, in that hate is an irrational response, which it is. However, her following comments meant it to sound like you could logically dictate within yourself what you feel in regards to hate. I disagree. Emot...