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Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 06:37 AM Jan 2019

Kevin Hart continues half-hearted apology tour with demand that people accept that he's changed

Kevin Hart issued another half-hearted apology on his radio show for his homophobic tweets. This time he did it in the third person.

Hart said that his words were “chopped up” in previous apologies on his Sirius XM show Straight from the Hart.

“I will say this, and I want to make this very clear,” he said. “Once again, Kevin Hart apologizes for his remarks that hurt members of the LGBTQ community. I apologize.”

Hart was announced to host the Oscars last month, but homophobic tweets surfaced after that announcement. In one tweet, he said he would hurt his son if he turned out to be gay: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice stop that’s gay.”

In others, he used the words “fag” and “gay” pejoratively, referring to actor Dwayne L. Brown as a “fat fag” and actor Damien Wayans as “a gay bill board for AIDS.”

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Kevin Hart continues half-hearted apology tour with demand that people accept that he's changed (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 OP
Talk is cheap, Kev. Try donating time/$ to gay rights advocacy groups if you want us to be "clear" flibbitygiblets Jan 2019 #1
Oh well vercetti2021 Jan 2019 #2
Just because it deserves to be in this thread... Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #3
Those 'parents' are monsters. n/t icymist Jan 2019 #4

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
1. Talk is cheap, Kev. Try donating time/$ to gay rights advocacy groups if you want us to be "clear"
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:26 AM
Jan 2019

Put your money where your big mouth is. Or else STFU and go away.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
2. Oh well
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:35 AM
Jan 2019

Hopefully this is the end of him being in almost every movie nowadays. I always thought he was unfunny and really just annoying

Behind the Aegis

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3. Just because it deserves to be in this thread...
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 06:07 PM
Jan 2019
‘Gay’ 10-year-old’s sister details extreme torture their parents inflicted before his death

A judge unsealed grand jury transcripts earlier this week in a case about the death of a 10-year-old boy whose parents allegedly tortured and killed him after he came out.

Earlier this year, Anthony Avalos died after what investigators described as years of torture at the hands of his mother, Heather Barron, and her boyfriend, Kareem Leiva.

The director of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) said that Anthony had “said he liked boys” in the weeks leading up to his death.

The prosecution’s case involves both physical evidence and witness testimony. Assistant district attorney Jonathan Hatami told the grand jury about the coroner’s report, which found injuries all over Anthony’s body.

“There were injuries to Anthony’s side and his hip area, both his left hip and his right hip, and his arms, and even injuries to his feet,” Hatami said. There were also abrasions to his knees, circular marks on his stomach and torso, and bruises on his face, and blunt force trauma to Anthony’s brain and his body.

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