Yeah, Gene's a huge dick for speaking his opinion in a country where freedom of speech was something the founding fathers lived, breathed and died for, yet "freedom of speech" in this country is something that will get you publicly chastised if it's not the same opinion that some oversensitive, loudmouthed whiners disagree with. "
freedom of speech is only ok if ~I~ agree with you, otherwise, you are a dick!"
The sad, pathetic hypocricy of it all is that the people in this nation that are constantly preaching "tolerance" are the most intolerable people around.
Personally, I'd rather see someone say something that isn't necessarily popular rather than be one of the countless 'celebrities' (athletes, musicians, actors and hate-mongering "social leaders") that tells us how we should live, how we should feel, how we should vote, who we should vote for, who we should listen to and who we shouldn't, and what social and political causes we should support and condemn.... yeah, Gene's personal opinion is so much worse than the shit that spews from the mouths of so many others.
And as I've said it many times before, YES he can be a real asshole, but then again, so can almost every walking, talking, breathing person on earth. At least those of us in first world nations.
Don't like an opinion, that's fine. We don't all need to agree, and thankfully we don't all agree. I fear the day when/if we are all living and breathing to the exact same pulse.