Larry Johnson Banned for Gay Slur

Link is in the title.

This article has blown up over on Fox Sports.  I'll tell you this much, the title says 'Banned Indefinitely' but the article doesn't go into much detail.  Larry Johnson Chiefs running back, same dick Johnson that is on probation for getting into fights with women (hitting and spitting), tweeted about his first year coach Todd Haley and his lack of ability and experience.  He went as far as to tweet about how Todd went to college on a golf scholarship and never played college or pro ball.  Somewhere in his tweets he said fag.  I think he was responding to someone talking about how he likes to hit women.  He also called a reporter a fag when the reporter was attempting to interview him.

My turn: Larry Johnson is a piece of shit plain and simple.  I wish I could say he came from nothing and his lack of a father figure and growing up in the ghetto were factors in his bad decisions, but I can't.  His father played professional football for a little bit.  Point being is at the very least he had a decent middle class up bringing.

Larry has a history of this type of behavior:

1. In 2003, he was arrested for felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor domestic battery for waving a gun at his ex-girlfriend
    
2. In 2005, he was again arrested for assault when a woman accused Johnson of pushing her to the ground
    
3. His third arrest for assault came on February 24, 2008, after allegedly pushing a woman's head at a nightclub
    
4. On October 10, 2008, Johnson was arrested for the fourth time and charged with one count of non-aggravated assault for allegedly spitting a drink in a woman's face.  It was rumored that Johnson attempted to flee from police officers but was tackled after two yards. The woman involved, Ashley Stewart, has since filed a civil suit against Johnson, accusing him of negligence, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress

The info above came from the Wiki page about Larry Johnson (this link)

Without trying to defend this asshole, I believe the term fag was used in the same manner had he chose to use the word asshole (just like I did above).   I highly doubt he was attempting to slander someone who is part of the the LGBT community.  So I think we should chill out and let people insult others as they seem fit.  However I do recognize that someone in his position (and I don't mean hands against the wall) is representing the organization he is associated with, the NFL and they don't want to be known as the gay hating pro sport.

We need to weed out people like him.  I'd prefer that we 86 him due to his tweets about his coach compacted with his peachy history of being a dick.  However, I'm not against the NFL taking the same action if it means using the language he used against him.  I firmly believe that we need to realize that a word that is associated with the term 'hate' is not always used in such manner.  Sometimes a word is just a word.  But if it means we can use his words against him towards the greater cause of making this world a better place, I'll put that idea on the shelve for this instance.  Does that make sense?  What I'm trying to say is he wasn't trying to insult a community of our brothers and sister who happen to like the same sex but with his reputation/past if using his own words against him we should kick Johnson where it counts... in his footballs.