Extra, Extra: Tina Fey Denounces Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Routine

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Tina Fey denounced 30 Rock co-star Tracy Morgan's violently homophobic stand-up routine: "It also doesn’t line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person."
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By Ben Yakas in News on June 11, 2011 7:00 PM

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While what Tracy said may sound negative, it could be taken another way. Maybe, just maybe, he's sick of gay men acting like what they see on television as being gay. Maybe, just maybe, he's saying that if is son is gay, which is OK with him, his son should not, all of a sudden, start to talk where everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like a question with the inflection of the voice rising octaves as the sentence ends. Maybe he would want his son to come up to him and say, "I'm gay. You got a problem with that, motherfucker? If so, we can take this outside right now. If not, then we cool, Dad."

I knew a guy in high school that was as gay as Perez Hilton, but he sounded and acted like every other straight guy I knew until he moved to Atlanta and lived in the gay community. Then, his voice, walking gait, posture, and just about everything else changed about him. It was as if he was afraid of being ostracized from the gay community because he wasn't gay enough.

antimisogynycrusader

Seriously, what's up lately with black dudes and their homophobic comments? It's not bruthas on da DL compensating, is it?

DoctorMemory

Dear Gothamist: "violently" is not a synonym for "virulently", nor for "hatefully," "offensively" or "stupidly." Unless you have footage of him throwing a punch at a gay 14-year old, "violent" is the one thing his routine wasn't. (It was, however, all of those other words.)

ItchyGoiter

"He said if his son was gay he better come home and talk to him like a
man ... or he would pull out a knife and stab that little n-word to death."

glxglx

I should go around joking about stabbing "nigger children". That would be really funny, right?

Roger_the_Shrubber

Morgan broke one of the 10 Commandments of political correctness: Thou shalt not make fun of gay people.

Mordicai

I also condemn Tina Fey for exercising her right to free speech! For the record: using your free speech to talk about killing gay children-- a thing that happens all the time? "He was joking!" Jokes about how a person who talks about killing gay children needs to apologize better? PC BS!