When Floyd Mayweather Shouts 'Faggot,' This Is What LGBT People Hear
When Floyd Mayweather Shouts ‘Faggot,’ This Is What LGBT People Hear
Boxer Floyd Mayweather just called upcoming opponent Conor McGregor ‘faggot.’ This, alongside racism, has taken the men’s pre-bout baiting to a dark place far beyond trash talk.
TIM TEEMAN
07.14.17 8:30 PM ET
“Faggot.”
Floyd Mayweather shouted it at Conor McGregor today, Friday, in London.
To give his ugly litany proper context: “Punk. You faggot. You ho.”
Link to tweet
There it is. Loud. Like a bullet. A knife. Threatening.
I’m ready for the “It’s only pre-match hype.” “It’s all pantomime.” “This happens in every big boxing match.” “None of them mean it.” “This is just boxers trash talking.”
Don’t bother. We can all hear how Mayweather says, and means, “faggot.” He means “faggot” when faggot means “gay,” when “gay” means “less of a man than me” who should be scared of me when I shout “faggot” at him, and know his lower, disgusting place. The ultimate, de-masculinizing insult.
That kind of “faggot.”
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It takes a special kind of asshole to be a boxer. 
Sarcasm 
If, so then it is A-OK to use homophobia. Because, as it has been 'splained to me and several LGBT members here, if it is a matter of "the ends justify the means" and because calling him a "faggot" will make him and his supporters mad, then it is acceptable to slander and slur gay men. To be doubly sure this is OK, let me check with "some of my best friends" and a few random members of my family. YEA for justification of homophobia!!
Just in case... heavy with a double side of 
