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Curt Schilling still doesn’t get it. After being fired from ESPN last week for an inappropriate meme that he shared to his Facebook page, and subsequent blog post, Schilling continues to embarrass himself in the media.
Here’s the Facebook meme that Schilling posted as described by FOX Sports:
Schilling, who had been with ESPN since 2010, shared a post that showed an overweight man wearing a wig and women’s clothing, but parts of the T-shirt were cut out to show his chest. Next to the photo of the man was text that read: “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!”
That was ignorant enough, but then Schilling decided to double down:
Schilling then added: “A man is man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.”
Schilling did an interview with Stephen K. Brannon of the Breitbart News Daily airing on SiriusXM two days after having his contract terminated by ESPN and he’s still making ignorant comments.
“I’m not transphobic. I’m not homophobic,” Schilling said. “If in my past I’d ever been a racist or I had ever said something racist, or if I had ever been transphobic or homophobic, somebody somewhere would have said something I’m sure given my status.”
Although he may not believe that he’s a transphobic, Schilling’s comments and opinions are extremely transphobic and the fact that he doesn’t realize that shows how ignorant he truly is.
Later in the interview, Schilling responded to his firing from ESPN:
“If that job meant I had to continue doing it to put a roof over the head of my family and food on the table, I’m probably acting differently than I did,” he said. “A lot of people can’t or won’t jeopardize what they do for a living to be and espouse the things they believe and are.
“I’m not that guy … At a company where the rules are different based completely and solely on your perspective and your beliefs, it didn’t work. They didn’t like that.”
Yes, Curt, your job at ESPN was based on your perspective and your beliefs about baseball, not your opinions on who should use the bathroom where. Your famed career is based off of the amazing baseball player you once were and ESPN valued your insight on the game. They didn’t hire you to give your ignorant beliefs on transgenders and where they should use the bathroom.
In a feeble attempt to prove that he’s not transphobic, Schilling said he wouldn’t care if his 16-year-old son told him one day that he wanted to be a woman.
“If my 16-year-old son came home tomorrow and said to me, ‘Dad, I want to be a woman,’ I would be disappointed,” he said, adding his son is a founding member of the LGBT club at his high school. “Because as a man and a father, I want my son to experience fatherhood and being a father … But I wouldn’t care. I wouldn’t care. I would not feel any differently about him. I would not love him any less. I would actually be proud of the fact that he’s trying to be true to himself.”
But you still wouldn’t allow him to use the women’s bathroom, right Curt?
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