A while ago on thequestionclub, someone asked the question "do you enjoy
schadenfreude (German word meaning "to take pleasure from someone else's misfortune")?" And my answer was, "only when the person is a really deserving idiot." I couldn't explain myself any clearer than that, but the following should make it clear just what I mean.
Most of you on my flist need no introduction to the following news item, but the tedious explanation is for those of you not being bukkake'd by American media:
Basketball player Tim Hardaway announces he hates gay people and is a homophobe. "Well, you know, I hate gay people. I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic. It shouldn’t be in the world, in the United States, I don’t like it."Scott Adams wants Tim Hardaway to hate him too. But my favorite part of the story is that Hardaway apparently never noticed that he’s African-American. Or maybe he never realized that enthusiastically promoting bigotry isn’t a good idea if you’re a member of a persecuted minority. Either way, it’s not the sort of thing that gets you into Mensa.
But Scott Adams' roasting doesn't even come near openly gay Star Trek actor
George Takei's incredibly awesome rebuttal PSA video on YouTube.Tim Hardaway has since been fired, not surprisingly.
Idiot.
Edit: Scott Adams explains why he deleted his post.