Posted on 12/07/2018 11:06:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — Just two days after being named host of the Academy Awards, Kevin Hart stepped down following an outcry over past homophobic tweets by the comedian.
Capping a swift and dramatic fallout, Hart wrote on Twitter just after midnight Friday that he was withdrawing as Oscars host because he didn’t want to be a distraction. “I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past,” wrote Hart.
Hart stepped aside just about an hour after refusing to apologize for tweets that resurfaced after he was announced as Oscars host on Tuesday. In a video on Instagram, Hart said the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave him an ultimatum: apologize or “we’re going to have to move on and find another host.”
“I chose to pass on the apology,” Hart said. “The reason why I passed is because I’ve addressed this several times.”
The film academy didn’t respond to messages Thursday evening.
Hart has since deleted some of the anti-gay tweets, mostly dated from 2009-2011. But they had already been screen-captured and been shared online. In 2011, he wrote in a since-deleted tweet: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay.”
In an earlier post Thursday, Hart wrote on Instagram that critics should “stop being negative” about his earlier anti-gay remarks.
“I’m almost 40 years old. If you don’t believe that people change, grow, evolve? I don’t know what to tell you,” said Hart, who added, in all-caps: “I love everybody.”
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Liberal McCarthyism at its finest.
They ought to go to a darrel hugely show then.
Adam Corolla and prager was on fox awhile back sayign in essence ‘It’s time to STOP apologizing for everything every time a democrat demands we apologize- You say something, stick to it- stop giving the left what they want- stop handing them victory after victory- we have nothing to apologize for-
“Carolla and Prager ask: What if we all stopped apologizing?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cv-nOmyEk
I didn’t see everything he wrote but from what I saw he’s the type that sees something he thinks is silly and says “C’mon man, that’s so gay”. Nothing to do with anybody, but forevermore he’s now a “homophobe” who will have to grovel for a forgiveness that he’ll never be given.
I'll bet President Trump doesn't think that Kevin Hart should have stepped down - but then, Trump's not a racist like all the DemoKKKratzis are...
Oscar will only kill a Career
“It’s time to STOP apologizing for everything every time a democrat demands we apologize”
Yep, when you do that it gives them the leverage.
Gay trumps black.
But be careful, gay people, trans trumps YOU. What have you EVER tweeted? Or even said?
I’ll admit that as a young man I made a lot of fag jokes.
I’m 60 now.........and I still make a lot of fag jokes. Not that there’s anything wrong with that ( Seinfeld reference for the humor impaired)
To hell with homos!
I guess that will keep me from hosting the Oscars, also!
It came down to his refusal to grovel in perpetuity for years-old tweets. Kudos to him for not buckling to the mob.
Ah, the lib’s masturbation on the English language.
Phobia: Anything that causes fear/anguish/weeping and gnashing of teeth, belly button lint, or toe cheese to a progressive ‘tard.
Its not about an “apology” anyway. What they want ultimately is submission.
The unusually early snowmelt has washed him out.
The homo mafia owns Hollyweird. Let them have their award season and we can choose not to watch.
I’ve seen his posts, they are not bad.
That written, who watches the Oscars these days?
Someone, somewhere on Freepers posted a pecking order of privilege used by liberals. Was hilarious.
If you don’t kowtow to the Lavender Mafia, your life is over.
Its Hollywood, were no real diversity of thought is allowed.
Kevin Hart wax liberal but advocating traditional values is no longer welcome in the culture.
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