San Francisco 49ers Who Appeared In An “It Gets Better” Video, Deny Ever Being In An “It Gets Better” Video
But I’m watching the video. You’re totally there…
After Chris Culliver’s controversial comments about gays in the NFL, USA Today talked to 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks about his role in the 49ers’ “It Gets Better” video.
4. The reporter from USA Today told Brooks that he had seen the video, but Brooks didn’t back down.
7. The reporter pressed Brooks, reminding him of studies that highlight how prevalent teenage bullying over sexual identity is, to which Brooks responded…
8. When the reporter went to Isaac Sopoaga (who also appears in the video), another teammate Will Tukuafu stepped in.
12. He was told it was to help prevent bullying against teens due to their sexual orientation.
13. I wonder what Chris Culliver would think about all this…
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salvatorea 4 months agoHow big of a bitch do you have to be to say this. And in all places, San Francisco! Maybe they should worry less about guys sucking dick, and focus more on them not sucking at football.
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kimberlyp3 4 months agoI’m not saying football players do things they are contractually obligated to do for their organization like appear in PAs but, well they do and I’m sure some of them showed up, read the cue card and had no clue or care what it was for
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BarbaraWalters 4 months agoPeople are coming down on them hard for nothing. These athletes never said “eww gay people” they just said they thought it was an anti-bullying in general psa. Honestly if you think being bullied because of your sexuality is worse than being bullied because you’re weird/geeky/nerdy, then you’re the assholes here. All bullying is bad, and like the two athletes said, they thought it was just a bullying in general psa. The idea that “It Gets Better” is a LGBT thing and only a LGBT thing is stupid, if it helps other people then let them use it.
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boweryboy 4 months agoAs a person who was bullied for being gay, black and a nerd I agree all bullying is bad, but …ummm…it’s not an “idea” that the It Gets Better campaign is a LGBT thing, it’s a fact. The whole purpose behind it is to let bullied LGBT teens know that it “gets better”. Maybe it’s an “asshole” thing to only focus on a singular marginalized group but it is what it is.
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BarbaraWalters 4 months ago
You misunderstood that sentence, I never said it wasn’t a fact, I said that anyone should be able to use it if it helps them Anyways, I’m not here to to argue about what cause is more important, I just wanted to pointed out that the two players agreed that the video they were in was a LGBT psa and Buzzfeed is twisting the story
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2free 4 months agoI don’t see why people are coming down hard on these players. They could be perfectly right thinking it was just an anti-bullying campaign if that’s how it was presented to them. Why should it matter if they did it for general bullying or bullying against gays? Do they get more points in the eyes of society if it’s a campaign for anti-bullying against gays than just general bullying?
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2free 4 months ago
Well first of all we only saw snippiest of what they said and it was edited later together to look cohesive. They could have easily had different scripts at the time of their read or things could have been re-written to fit each player personally. Also even though “It Gets Better” campaign started off as a anti-bullying cause for LGBT Teens it has actually started to be broaden out towards all teens and all types of bullying. Just like the Civil Rights started off as cause for African-Americans but now is more broader towards all rights (including LGBT rights). Which in my book is pretty cool. All teens face challenges no matter if they’re gay, straight, tall, short, fat, skinny, Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, etc. Non of players never said that being gay was wrong….actually one player even said “they can be gay, that’s their right.” My whole point is that the narrative of this article is trying to push as if these players were anti-gay. And it shouldn’t matter if they did a anti-bullying for LGBT Teens or anti-bullying in general because bullying is horrible period.
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melaniem12 4 months ago
So…by your logic, if the players were handed a script and put in front of a cameta and did their thing, and it turned out it was propuppy kicking, its not their fault because they, as grown men, cant be held responsible for the words coming out of their mouth?
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Guacamoley Oley 4 months agoThis is dumb. I guess reporters no longer ask questions about football during media day, they’d rather try and get the players to slip up and say something they’ll regret? Obviously the reportershad an agenda if they brought video to present to the players. Also, in case anyone actually watches the video (instead of looking at fancy pictures and cutsey gifs), Donte Whitner is the only one that actually mentions anything about LGBT individuals. Who knows what kind of a script the players were given? I think it’s entirely conceivable that they were given a paragraph or two, read it to the camera, and then they were done. This portrayal of the 49ers as being homophobic jerks is completely misguided. I guess we should forget about all the other charity work the organization does (http://www.49ers.com/community/foundation.html), and forget about all the players with their own charity organizations (Moss, Akers, Smith, Goldson, Davis to name a few).
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