by zappo Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:37 pm
Don't give me too much credit, Ned. I appreciate the support, but I'm not fighting any fight, relatively speaking, let alone the good one. The (unfortunate? I don't know...this might be a "good" thing, once again speaking relatively) reality is that Kobe Bryant is many things at the same time--just like the rest of us, though obviously in different ways and on an incomparably different scale. Some of those things are enough to make your skin crawl, but it is worth remembering that some of them are the good kind of hair-raising, too. He did a lot of good, too. It's tough to admit, but it's true. Other notable monsters who changed the world for the better include John Lennon, Walter Payton, and Michael Jordan. I, too, have done (and more often said) truly awful and arguably unforgivable things in addition to, I hope, doing much more good than harm to the world and people around me, on balance.
I'm very much anti-Kobe Bryant, whatever that means and in large part (but not exclusively, I have to admit) because of the rape situation. That's true. And I do have "pretty strong feelings" about these matters. But let's be real--I was just being predictably snarky because WP was being predictable in taking a handful of examples and drawing sweeping conclusions about them and their speakers. I probably do sound like this Bill Hicks guy! But just like I hope I'm now at least partly demonstrating (and as I'm equally/maybe even more sure WP would, outside the bounds of a single, probably off-handed message board post which obviously cannot possibly contain and communicate every nuance of his feelings), there's more to it, to me, and to "my take" than "RPI RAPEMAN FUCKK YOU."
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