Tracy Morgan: If My Son Were Gay I'd Stab Him to Death

He can stab his own pathetic self and do us all a favor.

Amen!

What a jerk.

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Let 30 Rock producers know we won't watch as long as they employ this bigot!

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#FireTracyMorgan indeed! We should not be supporting his hatred!

He pushed the envelope with this one. One thing using gay material in your shows, but he went way over the top. That wasn't even humour. He was using the stage to spout off his igorance, making statements. Sounds to me like he has an ego problem. And I pray he doesn't have a son, or ever has a child. Teaching hate, makes you unfit to be a parent.
One can ignore homophobia. But he was on a hate vendetta, and this was done in a sick, classless way.

Dee, sadly he does have children. Three sons I believe.

My heart goes out to them. Unless of course they are just as hateful. But then again that would have been what they were taught.

This garbage is hardly worth responding to! Why give him air time at all!?

PLEASE, do not lump all that reside in Tennessee into the group of people that are "just as nasty and bigoted as Tracy Morgan is." Believe it or not, there are people who think differently. That last line made me lose all respect for this article. Thanks for painting us all with the same filthy brush.

As a closing note, Tracy Morgan is absolutely vile, and I will never support him nor anything he does. Ever.

I live in TN. There are some nasty works of art living in this state.

Let's not forget that TN just passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and they did it enthusiastically.

This is a conservative christian state. It is not gay friendly, it is not liberal friendly, it is not education friendly, it is not progress friendly. It's a backwoods southern religious hellhole with a few tiny spots of moderate thought that are shouted down every time they open their mouths.

As echoed in the past two comments, I was appalled enough by Renee Shah's closing sentence to create this account just to make this post.

How dare you lump the inhabitants of an entire state together as nasty and bigoted?Whether the statement was made for entertainment purposes, because you couldn't think of a better ending, or because you are simply ignorant yourself is of little consequence. I was born and raised in Tennessee, performed as a child at Opryland, and now as an adult I help children learn about bullying and tolerance through theatre. Some of my best friends are native gay Tennesseans. There are both academic and liberal communities within the state. Just because some individual attendees at a single performance might not have been does not give you the right to make a statement as bigoted and offensive as the one you felt the need to write about.

You should be ashamed.

I live in Nashville. The line is appropriate.

I'm from Murfreesboro. You legitimately want to tell me you haven't met a single person you wouldn't say is nasty and bigoted? Even... gasp!... yourself?

Give me a break.

So far I have not. Even my own family here is bigoted. And it's accepted by their friends. No one questions it.

If it makes you feel better there are a host of other states which, had they cheered on Mlorgan, I would have said the same thing about.

You take things far too personally. Like I said to KV above, why put so much energy into defending lines on a map? It's a state. Chill.

I genuinely believe she doesn't see how offensive the statement is. If the article stated "some Tennesseans" or even "a majority of Tennesseans", I'd give it to her. There are a lot of ignorant people in Tennessee, and she's right to say we're blind if we don't see it. Hate and homophobia obviously exists in Tennessee (although not exclusively).

I believe her experience with these bigoted residents may have jaded her against the state as a whole -- as noted, she is very excited to head to Germany. But I find the generalization of an entire state's population saddening.

She's not the only one -- just look at the recent bouts of publicity regarding Murfreesboro specifically by CNN, Daily Show, and Colbert Report. We have to fight back a bit.

And why defend it? Because it's home.

The 'recent bouts of publicity regarding Murfreesboro' are pretty well deserved, don't you think?

I think the publicity of the wretched acts of individual people within the town is absolutely deserved. I cannot even begin to describe the anger and disbelief I feel toward their actions and words. But for all those people, there are many such as myself equally as pro-Muslim community. For every filmed story that focuses on the hate, they neglect to pan the camera 20 feet to the right to show the people -- not just Muslim, but all ethnicity and belief -- also fighting for their right to practice peacefully. But that doesn't sell newspapers, gain viewers, or raise the Nielsen numbers. It's truth by omission.

It also wouldn't make a catchy, pithy final sentence for your article. :)

"It also wouldn't make a catchy, pithy final sentence for your article. :)"

Lol fair enough.

Molly.

Why don't you make your own video and post it on You Tube? I believe that's the standard response these days when news coverage doesn't present the whole story.

Seeing people from TN who aren't bigoted and nasty would make my day WAY better... all I hear is bad news from TN... I hope the good, accepting, not-bigoted people stand up, smile and be counted!

I'm sure they try, but the christian conservatives who run the state shout them down again and again.

Why is it OK to speak of "the christian conservatives" in such disparaging ways, but not "gays", Renee?

Does "bigoted" only apply to people that are prejudiced or intolerant about certain kinds of people, and not others? Is there a list somewhere that tells which characteristics are off limits for criticism or humor?

What part of "christian conservatives shout them down" is disparaging? Have you ever seen the evangelical lobbyists at the TN state house John? That's exactly what they do.

I understand you're desperate to make some sort of point (whatever it may be) but let's get some perspective here.

You may say you understand such a thing, but that is to me the very same sort of "god-like" judgementalism I believe I am witnessing, and am questioning. If one is "right" for accepting one's own thoughts about others as evidence of the appropriateness of speaking harsh things about them, then the criticism of this comedians joke, falls apart . . .

Why would he not be just as "right" for accepting his thoughts about "gays" in arriving at the conclusion they can appropriately be joked about? Could he not say to you; Have you ever seen "gays" marching around like lunatics, tooting their own horns and trying to force everyone to accept their views on how great they are? Or trying to force people to call them strange things, like "husband and husband", when others don't see that as sensible? And so on?

What makes it "wrong" to criticize or joke about one, and "right" to criticize or joke about the other?

He is the epitome of hate and anger brought on from a society steeped in homophobic fear due to religious misinterpretation and stereotyping.

"god don't make no mistakes"
haha! this guy isn't very bright...
so easy for the uneducated to make such erroneous, off-the-wall statements.

He's certainly grammatically challenged.

At least this SOB is honest, not like other homophobes who have no trouble with their own gay kids. It's those OTHER fags/dykes who are going to hell.

It's easier to fight such hatred when it's out in the open.

He's a comedian... Relax. You don't have to find it funny. Who quotes commedians anyway? They are say stuff that is inappropriate when you read it in block letters on a blog, while sippin from a latte of political correction in a tight wad suit. Lighten up.

When we can't even stop this kind of vitriol at the "joking" phase, when can we? Do you we have to wait until someone's dead before we can speak up?

Well, here's 18 dead people for you, buddy. http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/06/puerto_rico_lgbt_murders.html

This isn't the first time he's done this, and every report of him making comments like this say that he strayed from his routine and started giving an anti-gay speech in the middle of his show.

Why should a comedian get a pass for bigotry?

I agree with Jay, comedians often satirize their own opinions, and that line about stabbing his son is a good example, I think. He intentionally portrayed himself as irrational and depraved, by playing a word game with the stereotypes of "manly" talking, and "gay man" talking", and then runs with the audience reacting negatively to his caricature of a gay man speaking, and hits them with a shock-line, that essentially mocks that negative reaction when taken to the "logical" extreme, I imagine.

In a sense, I think he was mocking strong homophobic reactions, whether in himself or others, and more or less getting the audience to laugh at themselves for having the mild reaction he provoked, by playing the "PC game" of stretching negative reactions of any kind, in any sense toward the designated "objects of PC sympathy" to rediculous conclusions.

The closing line of this article actually does a similar thing, it seems to me, without the comedic underpinnings.

If a comedian was "baiting" his audience in a similar way with something like a progression of suggestive anti-"Muslim extremist" rhetoric, till he got a rise from some caricaturing of a Jehadist wishing to kill us all . . and then said something like; "What can we do with such violent people? . . . Kill them all, I say . . The audience might laugh, but that is not them laughing about actually doing that, so much as them seeing the ease with which such things can be turned on their head.

Comedy is often hard to capture realistically, outside the actual performance.

Homosexuals and many others believe Homosexuality is genetic. Not so! If it were, it would have been bred out of the human race thousands or millions of years ago, since hpmos tend not to reproduce.
A much more logical explanation is past lives or reincarnation. Each of us is a spiritual being. We live many lifetimes, in body after body. Each time we are reborn in a new body, it is primarily a matter of chance what the sex of that body is. If a being lives in bodies of one sex for several lifetimes, he or she may have difficulty adjusting if he or she happens to get a body of the opposite sex.
One of my fears is if I happen to get a female body next time around. In that case I will almost certainly be a lesbian!

I think your grasp of genetics needs refreshing. Among other things...

I understand that you are an atheist, which would explain your response. You believe that this matter-energy-space-time illusion is the only reality.
L. Ron Hubbard said it best: "Reality is the agreed-upon apparency of existence."

Your genetic argument is wrong, John, regardless of whether one is an atheist or not (and whether homosexuality is indeed genetic or not). There are many genetic conditions that typically prevent those affected from reproducing, and yet they persist in the gene pool. That's because we carry and pass on recessive genes we do not ourselves phenotypically display.

(There might be all kinds of realities, of course, but it was your idea to talk about genetics.)

I don't think its is clear cut, there are some people that genetically act counter to the existing gender roles. However, this is not always the case, certainly some people become gay throughout there life for whatever reason. It seems to make sense that sexuality would be undetermined in a baby, and that the gender role is definitely influenced based on experience. No one would deny that their sexuality changes forms pre and post puberty. Trying to say its either one is like saying you have solved the "nature vs. nuture" debate, which is not clear cut.

Whether it's nature or nurture shouldn't matter one bit. No one deserves to be discriminated against, or spoken of in the way Tracy did.

Making fun of gays used to be the norm and gays used to hide their lifestyles so everyone used to laugh and thought it was funny. Now that gays are accepting who they are and speaking out and letting people know that who they are and really living their lives then it's not funny or cool anymore to make fun of gays but some old school comics and overall ignorant people still haven't accepted it. Talking about stabbing any child for any reason is unacceptable and is not funny at all.

"Talking about stabbing any child for any reason is unacceptable"

How 'bout dropping bombs on them, as our government is doing right now? . . Not talking about it, I'll give ya that.

Do you rather our government not respond at all and let the terrorists take over? Sit on our hands and the children that the "bombs" will be raining down upon will be our children.

Our government is supporting and backing al Qaeda in Libya, and other places, not stopping them, Charlene.

I think you may have your facts mixed up.

Have you looked into the matter, Charlene?

My high school prom date was gay. He wasn't open about it, but everyone knew it. My parents were pretty damn happy that we went to prom together.

Tracy Jordan is, at best, an average actor of little intelligence. I'm not surprised he said something like this and he probably did it for attention. If you are gay or just interested in the gay community you should pop onto http://guyspy.com , its a great place to meet men just like you but also be invited and informed of the hottest parties, events, and marches!