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Come on, Joy. You blog posts weren't even that bad, they were just in poor taste. You didn't say anything particularly vitriolic or hateful. This is your opportunity to admit that these were once your views, and emphasize your personal growth since then.

Instead, you are just going to pretend that your past self never existed...

"I find gay sex to be gross" isn't that controversial of an opinion. Plenty of open-minded, accepting people agree with you. It just wasn't a worthwhile opinion to espouse...

Own it, Joy. Don't just play dumb, because now you just look dumb.



>You blog posts weren't even that bad

Some of them crossed the line and were no longer merely disappointing.

>claims that gay men prey on “impressionable teens”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/business/media/joy-reid-h...


You're not wrong. Her blog is tame compared to some of the comments I see DAILY in ANY subreddit on reddit.

What Joy SHOULD have done was admitted that she "used" to be a homophone, and apologized.


She's still a homophone; Reid sounds exactly like "read".


Isn't that the point though? She wasn't a homophone in the past.


"homophone" - each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, e.g., new and knew.

"homophobe" - a person with an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.

Just a little joke about a linguistic mixup.


:) Might just be my pronunciation, but Reid only sounds like the present form.


Is the use of the word "homophone" some in-joke that I'm not aware of?


I agree.

The better narrative would be to say:

"This is who I used to be, there were many people like me at the time, but my views have evolved and I've become close friends with many of the people that my words hurt. I'm sorry and I work every day to make up for these mistakes."

Actions speak louder than words.




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