They may have gotten tired of attempts to view the original blog post using up their bandwidth for a defunct (as you put it) blog site.
But thanks for the link to a working copy of the page. I'd read that blog post yesterday and don't see how it proves that Joy Reid was ever hopeless homophobic. In that post she is examining the social phenomenon and how people handle it in private and in public:
Keeping it real ... most straight men feel exactly the same way, and would have the exact same reaction to the idea of stripping naked in a sweaty locker room in close quarters with a gay teammate. Most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing. Most straight people cringed at the Snickers commercial. Most straight people had a hard time being convinced to watch "Broke Back Mountain." (I admit that I couldn't go see the movie either, despite my sister's ringing endorsement, because I didn't want to watch the two male characters having sex.)
Does that make me homophobic? Probably. And I'm not exactly proud of it. But part of the intrinsic nature of "straightness" is that the idea of homosexual sex is ... well... gross ... even if you think that gay people are perfectly lovely individuals. For the record, I'm sure gay people think straight sex is gross, too, it's just that the nature of political correctness is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross, but the reverse is considered to be patently homophobic.
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Further, as an African-American, you're actually held to an even higher tolerance standard, which may or may not be fair. But as LeBatard himself noted, what Hardaway said probably met with quiet, embarrassed agreement on some level by many other players, who are now looking to their left and right, and perhaps quietly, and uneasily, wondering if the guy showering next to them is sneaking a peek at their naughty bits.
It's not pretty, but it's for real.
https://archive.is/SOR69#selection-641.0-645.35She did not express the original anit-gay sentiment, she is examining it. Ten, twelve years ago many people were less comfortable with homosexuals than they are now. Most people, as President Obama said, have evolved on the issue and would not be as antagonistic to other people's life styles as Tim Hardaway was in the comments Reid was discussing.
(The other post that was put up yesterday about "lesbian hairstyles" read to me as satirical, not as a anti-lesbian screed. If you want to post a link to that one, I will review it and think about it, too.)
Yes, Joy Reid did say that she was probably homophobic - but that is in the context of someone brought up in a Southern Christian family. I know a lot of people who were taught hatred of "the others" that have grown out of it. My mother was raised by Southern Baptists to hate black people but she grew out of it and worked hard in her community to bring awareness of black history to the town.
Watching Joy Reid today I expect she has grown out of her acknowledged homophobia.
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