Current Events > Kevin Hart did not apologize for the hurtful comments until now.

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If you're tired of hearing about this, you don't have to read the topic. I'm only posting this because of the misinformation that people have been spreading.

People have been claiming that Kevin Hart already apologized for the hurtful comments he made on twitter and in comedy routines like these back in 2010:
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There are a lot of homophobic tweets he made but those are just a few of them

Earlier this week Kevin claimed he'd "already addressed" his previous homophobia and that he was a different person now. People took this to mean that he had apologized for it and that he isn't that kind of person any more.

The interview where he "addressed it" was conducted in 2015 with a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine. Here is a part of that interview:

I'd never apologize for what was never intended to be disrespectful--I'd never allow the public to win for something I know wasn't malicious. I think people take things so seriously--you send out a tweet, and I'm not apologizing for that. You're ignorant for thinking I'd have any ill will. I will not defend ignorance. What I will defend is a point of view. Those are two different things. If I'm talking to you through my lens, my point of view, this is my version of what I see and how I see it. You have the choice to say I don't like his POV or I like it. And then you turn your back or you continue to talk about it.

Showing that not only did he not apologize, he explicitly said he'd refuse to apologize because he didn't view his comments as disrespectful, and you're ignorant if you think they were. In that interview, he also claimed that he wouldn't tell the joke today, not because it's hurtful but because of the potential blowback. You can read more of it in these tweets from the interviewer:
https://twitter.com/jonahweiner/status/1070494134924767234

After being declared the Oscars host, Kevin Hart was asked to apologize for the hurtful comments, to which he posted indignant replies on social media claiming that he'd already addressed it and we should move on (in other words, get off my back already, I'm not gonna apologize)

Finally after stepping down (who knows if he chose to or if the academy told him to) he posted a real apology on his twitter, maybe because his publicist wanted to damage control or maybe he actually is sorry now.

So please stop spreading the narrative that Kevin Hart apologized and was targeted anyway. Kevin Hart was never sorry for his comments, and even now is probably only sorry that he got called out.
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I don't like his name for some reason.
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I wish I gave a even the slightest fuck about 8 year old comments
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This is stupid. I was offended at Tracy Morgans routine cause that really did cross a line, imo. This was meh.
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Regardless if it was something said 8 years ago.

Why care and what does it matter what someone's opinions are.

Everyone doesn't think alike.

People are who they are.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Regardless if it was something said 8 years ago.

Why care and what does it matter what someone's opinions are.

Everyone doesn't think alike.

People are who they are.

People are looking for any way to mess things up for people more successful than they are
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Why care and what does it matter what someone's opinions are.

Everyone doesn't think alike.

People are who they are.

You don't have to care. I'm not saying you do. I'm just clearing up the misinformation because I got tired of seeing people make it up

The oscars will be better with a host who isn't so blatantly homophobic. Kevin Hart isn't a very funny person either, so it shouldn't be hard to top him.
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Uh, I went to look up the jokes, but those don't sound like jokes. He just really doesn't respect or like gay people.
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Bump
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rikasa posted...

Uh, I went to look up the jokes, but those don't sound like jokes. He just really doesn't respect or like gay people.

Yeah people are intentionally ignoring the fact that much of what he said wasnt a damn joke
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