Absurd. That term has been used in the urban and younger generation's vernacular for probably 20 years now. Its simply a disclaimer you say after something that could be taken in a gay way. Like, "I prefer the foot long hotdogs to regular ones. No homo". Pretty harmless, just like how normal boys and young men would call each other f@gs when the conversation called for it. The Marxists that run our societies still have elevated the minority of weirdos over the rest of us and taken away alot of harmless fun along the way.
Lol, it definitely cracks my Top Ten list of anti-gay slurs! I chuckle every time I hear it.
But this does remind me how hyper-conscious the NBA is about its image. I would say that even more than the NFL, the NBA (or just 'basketball' in general) is the primary vehicle to introduce and integrate blacks into the collective psyche of the world as non-threatening role models. In other words, it's a big social engineering program. You just know that these guys call to each other with "the n-word" all the freakin' time, but it's still pretty rare to catch it on a hot mic. The players are absolutely being intensely coached to police their own language in ways that aren't shown to the public.
Earlier, first-year Hornets coach Charles Lee said he had spoken to Ball, who had been “very apologetic” and intended to learn from the behavior.
“As an organization, that is obviously not something we condone," said Lee. “Our standards and what is required of our players in the environment we create is really important to us.”
“I spoke to Melo and he’s obviously very apologetic. From what I’ve seen since I’ve been around him, he loves everyone. He’s a joy to have around the facility and it’s not typically how he operates. He and I talked about the seriousness of the situation and how he needs to conduct himself going forward.”
Lee was confident Ball would keep his word.
“He and I talked about it and he definitely said going forward, ‘I’m going to be better,’ and I want to see that happen," Lee said. "So for somebody to use those words and say that out of his mouth, we will make sure to hold him accountable to that.”
Get a load of this cornball Uncle Tom house n!gga! Even his Bucknell-attending, white wife-having, Israeli pro basketball league-playing, "ex Wall Street"-working, corporate diversity initiative fast track hire ass cannot possibly believe the words that his mouth is saying. Or maybe he does. We know some white head coaches who have totally drunk the Koolaid.
One post-election hot take that probably has some truth to it was with regard to Trump (allegedly) garnering votes from 20% of black men and 50% of hispanic men: they are simply fed-up with living in tranny pronoun anus world. Policing language in this way has already created a fissure with the meat-eating men of the world. But again, the NBA is a social engineering program, and at the end of the day, black and hispanic men are not really the target audience.
No pillow-biting butt bandits were "marginalized" by this phrase being uttered, primarily because exactly none of them watch NBA player interviews on the FanDuel sports betting website.
A fun thought experiment is to consider if LaMelo said something like, "I believe the sacrament of marriage can only be shared between a man and a woman." How many hundreds of thousands of dollars would that fine rack up from Adam Silver? Another one is if he used "pause!" instead of "no homo," which is another synonym that blacks have adopted to acknowledge that some turn of phrase comes out as ambiguously gay. Is that sort of language coded enough to escape the wrath of the longhouse?
