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Old homophobic Kevin Hart comments surfaced (update: Oscars request apology, Kevin declines)
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Because his initial refusal to apologize is what's in his heart.
What was in the last tweets where he backed out is what was in an email from his publicist.
but he didnt this is the age of spin in 2 weeks nobody outside this website and the people who dig up everybody tweets will care. Do people still care about the james gunn thing no, seriously every 2 weeks someones in trouble
"NUH UH, ACADEMY I AIN'T APOLOGIZING FOR SHIT."
(parts ways with the Oscars)
"Sorry, gay people for my bigotry. Let's all be positive! I said sorry? Jeez."
Christ Almighty this took a turn.
(parts ways with the Oscars)
"Sorry, gay people for my bigotry. Let's all be positive! I said sorry? Jeez."
Christ Almighty this took a turn.
All he had to do was apologize and say that he has changed and feels embarrassed by his old tweets.
Literally all he had to do.
I can't remember the last time I have seen such a self inflicted wound. The epitome of toxic masculinity.
Literally all he had to do.
I can't remember the last time I have seen such a self inflicted wound. The epitome of toxic masculinity.
every celebrity just needs to use tweetdeleter and delete every tweet from 2008 till 2015, you'll love some good ones, but in the age of LETS DIG UP THE TWEETS, you gotta do it and you gotta get removed from the wayback machine,
Damn shame too.
This was a good opportunity to apologize and help heal that by showing that he's grown as a person.
Turns out he didn't and decide to quit knowing his termination was imminent.
More people were upset that Gunn was fired, not at his old tweets. And Gunn had already apologized for his old tweets prior to the alt right bringing them back up and we saw him grow and change.
The situations are not the same. And Kevin Hart's next big film is a children's cartoon where the other lead actor was already fired for sexual harassment allegations.
Kevin Hart just stepped down
NVM late
So like, well that was a shitty response he had when asked to initially apologize by the Academy, makes the the stepping down "apology" look like he is a lying piece of shit.
NVM late
So like, well that was a shitty response he had when asked to initially apologize by the Academy, makes the the stepping down "apology" look like he is a lying piece of shit.
I don't get it, he wouldn't apologize earlier when they asked him to, so why apologize now?
I mean it seems rather stupid to me not to issue a simply apology, it would have taken far less work then doing the whole "I apologized in the past, not going to write a simple apology now thing" not to mention it, like spending less energy and time issuing an apology then trying to issue a non-apology and then having to deal with alllllll the backlash and then losing the oscar gig because you wouldn't do it in the first place, seems like a really strange thing to me to do.
I say just get Randy Rainbow to host it now, he'd be great imo.
I mean it seems rather stupid to me not to issue a simply apology, it would have taken far less work then doing the whole "I apologized in the past, not going to write a simple apology now thing" not to mention it, like spending less energy and time issuing an apology then trying to issue a non-apology and then having to deal with alllllll the backlash and then losing the oscar gig because you wouldn't do it in the first place, seems like a really strange thing to me to do.
I say just get Randy Rainbow to host it now, he'd be great imo.
Dude got fired and is dressing it up like he stepped down. Someone told him how seriously he was fucking his future prospects.
All he had to fucking do was type out an apology. Not go out on life TV in front of cameras and say something. Nope, just type one out behind the safety of his computer screen. And he couldn't even do that...
First response was how he really feels.
Second response was him doing what his reps told him to do to hopefully not get blowback on his career.
Second response was him doing what his reps told him to do to hopefully not get blowback on his career.
exactly
not gonna be an issue when the film comes around
Damn, this whole thing could have been avoided if he'd been a grown up and worked an apology into one of his earlier statements. It's not hard to be all like "What I said was dumb and hurtful and doesn't represent my views."
Pride is a hell of a thing. Life is so much better when you don't get in your own way.
Pride is a hell of a thing. Life is so much better when you don't get in your own way.
What a destructive and isolating decision to have in a situation where it is both good morally and good for business to take the free and easy option of apologizing for bad behavior.
You absolutely fucking played yourself, Hart.
You absolutely fucking played yourself, Hart.
Yeah, that's not an apology in the slightest. This is what he's touting as his apology?
To be fair, most have either deleted old bad tweets or never went on homophobic hate rants to begin with.
But you need to be a special kind of stupid to double down like he did.
You telling me the academy wasn't aware of the stand up that pretty much brought him to light, even with it being covered several times in different publications? Of course they did. Why ask for an apology now?
The problem is that people who aren't familiar with his work, and don't like him enough to watch any of his stuff have caught wind of it and feel angry because they haven't been explicitly shown an apology.
It's not a hidden tweet, it's part of an 8 year old stand up which has been on Netflix for as long as I remember. It has been brought up in a Rolling Stones interview with him. The guy is one of the biggest comedians in the world, with several kids films on his track record. I'd be surprised if he hadn't apologised at some point during the several times it has been brought up outside of the last couple of days. But I'm just a random posting on a message board, what would I know?
The problem is that people who aren't familiar with his work, and don't like him enough to watch any of his stuff have caught wind of it and feel angry because they haven't been explicitly shown an apology.
It's not a hidden tweet, it's part of an 8 year old stand up which has been on Netflix for as long as I remember. It has been brought up in a Rolling Stones interview with him. The guy is one of the biggest comedians in the world, with several kids films on his track record. I'd be surprised if he hadn't apologised at some point during the several times it has been brought up outside of the last couple of days. But I'm just a random posting on a message board, what would I know?
Lol, pathetic. "Sorry you're mad," basically. I wouldn't mind watching his career suffer for this.
His only apology for it occurred tonight, and only because his career was threatened.
I hope that's not the apology he was speaking about because if so then nah bruh that's not gonna cut it.
Better late than never, but maaaaan there is no way this isn't some desperate attempt to try and salvage a shitty position of his own making.
Wow at Kevin, what a terrible response.
Lets be real, Has there anyone that has been forgiven after apologizing in a similar situation?
Regardless of apology, that person normally gets pushed out.
The apology makes us feel alittle better about our vitriol but doesn't do so much for the person apologizing.
Lets be real, Has there anyone that has been forgiven after apologizing in a similar situation?
Regardless of apology, that person normally gets pushed out.
The apology makes us feel alittle better about our vitriol but doesn't do so much for the person apologizing.
Right? Baffling. You're gonna try and handwave away homophobic comments when you're trying to host the biggest night in Hollywood??? Might as well go after the Jews while you're at it
His PR handlers got hold of his Twitter account and are running damage control.
It might be too late for Secret Life of Pets 2, but I could see him being replaced in future movies. They already replaced Louis C.K.
His apology on Twitter doesn't seem genuine at all.
Because the Twitter posts are PR cleanup. The Instagram shit was his real feelings. He didn't "step down", he was fired, and he's trying to save face.
Good riddance to this trash human.
Just a gut feeling, but I think he probably didn't want the Oscars hosting job to begin with.
It's kind of a crappy gig -- high risk, low reward. Nobody's career has ever really been improved by hosting Oscars. At worst the show goes poorly and the host gets blamed. At best the show is fine (but long and boring) and the host receives no acclaim.
It's kind of a crappy gig -- high risk, low reward. Nobody's career has ever really been improved by hosting Oscars. At worst the show goes poorly and the host gets blamed. At best the show is fine (but long and boring) and the host receives no acclaim.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-oscar-host-is-worst-job-town-1165880
There was something written about it just yesterday. Although, funny how this was written before all this went down and includes this lines like,
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Good call, THR.
Eichner turning the Oscars into a long episode of Billy on the Street would be both brilliant and would make peoples heads explode worse than Gervais hosting.
Holy fuck, he got me. I was only criticizing his homophobic remarks because I wanted to take away his happiness, not because I think homophobia is shitty. But he's fucking happy! Hes happy and homophobic! HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
What a fucking dumbass, honestly. I bet he really was genuinely personally annoyed that people had the audacity to ask him to apologize for calling people fags and shit. He already told us we're too sensitive, why the fuck do we keep bothering him!