When Travis Kelce defends Harrison Butker, does he make Harrison look higher?
Or does Travis make himself look worse?
Unfortunately, it’s as soon as once more time to speak about Travis Kelce’s terrible teammate, Harrison Butker.
It’s one factor to (needlessly) defend somebody’s proper to say terrible issues. But Travis is taking issues additional than that.
Travis Kelce is definitely defending Harrison Butker
On Friday, May 24, Travis Kelce spoke about his now-notorious teammate, Harrison Butker, on the New Heights podcast that he shares along with his brother, Jason Kelce.
This is the primary time that Travis Kelce has spoken about Harrison Butker’s Benedictine College speech for the reason that man spewed hatred and misogyny from a podium earlier in May.
Many individuals hoped that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend would name out Butker. But evidently Kelce has chosen one other path.
Remember, not solely did Butker spew misogyny and homophobia, he additionally talked about Taylor Swift — referring to her as “my teammate’s girlfriend.”
As if being a billionaire, Grammy-winning, record-breaking celebrity wasn’t sufficient!
Despite this, Travis Kelce has outlandishly referred to his teammate (Butker is a “kicker” on the staff) as a “great person and a great teammate.”
Kelce emphasised that he doesn’t agree with “just about any of” the abhorrent issues that got here spewing out of Butker’s mouth. But apparently Kelce’s a kind of individuals who thinks which you could say despicable issues and nonetheless be, one way or the other, a very good particular person.
‘I cherish him as a teammate’
“I’ve known him for seven-plus years probably, eight-plus years,” Travis Kelce recalled of Butker. “And I cherish him as a teammate.”
He delved into the controversy: “When it comes down to his views and what he said at the [Benedictine College] commencement speech, you know, those are his.” Yes, that’s how views work.
“I can’t say I agree with the majority of it — or, just about any of it,” Kelce admitted. “Outside of just him loving his family and his kids.”
Travis Kelce then went on to elucidate: “And I don’t think that I should judge him by his views — especially his religious views of how to go about life. That’s just not who I am.”
One does then must ask concerning the foundation on which Kelce does choose somebody. There are individuals who solely consider somebody’s character by how they, personally, deal with them. That is tragically shortsighted.
Is Kelce somebody who doesn’t care how a person treats others, as long as he’s well mannered to him?
Apparently, Harrison Butker being good to Travis Kelce personally is sufficient for him
Kelce cited how Butker has at all times been variety to Kelce and to his family and friends. “That’s how he treats everyone,” Kelce argued.
Someone smiling and talking politely in particular person just isn’t the identical as being good. It’s simply politeness.
This is a person who referred to girls’s rights as “diabolical” whereas telling them to be stay-at-home mothers. And he spewed hate about “the deadly sin sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it” and “pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” None of that’s variety or good.
The NFL has determined in opposition to penalizing Butker. Commissioner Roger Goodell stated one thing concerning the group’s “diversity of opinions.” (Not to combine rotten apples with oranges, however was that the NFL’s stance when Colin Kaepernick acquired a lot hell?)
If Travis Kelce had merely reminded everybody that Harrison Butker has a authorized proper to say loathsome, bigoted issues, he’d have been proper. It can be pointless (Butker just isn’t in any authorized bother), however he’d have commented on it.
Instead, Kelce appears keen to consider that private politeness can one way or the other override outspoken bigotry and vitriol. It can’t. There are rude people who find themselves good individuals. There are well mannered people who find themselves completely despicable. Clearly, Harrison Butker is the latter.