Jakey53
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- Aug 27, 2011
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In my experience—a little more than a decade of tutoring teenagers—kids who use racial, gay or any other slurs tend not to be moral paragons otherwise. That you would call someone a ****** even out of reflexive anger suggests that you see homosexuality as some kind of shortcoming, but it pretty much always goes hand-in-hand with other character issues. Tony DeAngelo is not a good samaritan who had a lapse. He's a flawed human who has the potential to reform. Because of his hockey talent, he'll be given chance after chance that too many gay kids still can't have. That's not a good thing, and to celebrate it or even write it off as "PC culture" contributes to the problem. There are still 0 openly gay NHL players, and it seems far more likely that attitudes like DeAngelo's keep that the status quo than that there has never been a gay man good enough to play hockey at the highest level.
At any rate, dismissive attitudes aren't going to help anyone. DeAngelo has been held accountable for his actions, and it's up to him to grow up.
We are all flawed humans with short comings.