TheFuture
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I'll chip in my two cents: in my heart, I've forgiven Warrior, and when I think of him, I think of the way he made me feel as a 10-year-old kid watching wrestling.
He said some bad things, and yes, words like that can hurt a lot of people, especially fellow members of the LGBT community. Words like that incite people to commit violence against the gay community, and can contribute to young gay people's despair and suicidal thoughts.
But around the time of his death, it was clear to me that he was really trying to atone for some of his past actions. Maybe he would have apologized for his homophobic remarks, maybe he would never have. Never really got the chance to prove it either way. But there's something very sudden yet poetic about the way he died, makes me want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I don't know, being welcomed back into the WWE Family doesn't equate to atonement for his past misdeeds. There's a very good chance he still held the same horrid views when he died. We never got an indication to say otherwise.
Maybe when they give the Warrior Award to someone from the LGBT community my view will soften, as that would say to me that Dana considered and approved someone she felt was in line with the spirit of the Warrior.