Conor McGregor is facing sharp criticism after calling another fighter “a faggot.”
On October 21st, the Irish pro boxer (and reigning UFC Lightweight champ) was chatting with Artem Lobov following a fight with Andre Fili.
To console Lobov after his loss, McGregor said, “He [Fili] was a faggot.”
“And everyone knew he was a faggot and I was calling him a faggot.”
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The video was uploaded to the official UFC Twitter account but taken down after the backlash.
That didn’t stop others from reposting it, however:
Oh Nooooo!!! Conor’s a Bad Boy??? #UFCGadnsk #Notorious pic.twitter.com/VBUqPzNkLi
— ?Curtis? (@fuufnf) October 21, 2017
“There’s no need to use words like that,” Fili told MMA Fighting.
“You don’t need to demean other people to make yourself seem bigger.
Whenever you hear someone use that word or call someone a ‘bitch,’ that makes you look so insecure.”
Other fans expressed outrage upon learning that a working-class Irish boxer would ever use such filthy language:
homophobia still so inherently linked with toxic masculinity. case in point: conor mcgregor brazenly shouting faggot ringside + backstage
— ?Jason (@jsnbarnes) October 24, 2017
Here’s national treasure Conor McGregor repeatedly referring to someone as “a faggot” tonight https://t.co/88ZxfAUIcR
— Richie McCormåck (@RichieMcCormack) October 21, 2017
Conor McGregor is that lad who called you a faggot at school and thought every gay guy fancied him.
Not even with a barge pole, pet. pic.twitter.com/H3sjPOSMhe
— shane telford. (@MrShaneReaction) October 23, 2017
Conor McGregor happily throwing “faggot” into his repertoire and cementing his position as Ireland’s worst children’s entertainer. https://t.co/yWt2FdUlYw
— Mallow News (@MallowNews) October 21, 2017
Conor McGregor can’t do wrong in Irish people’s eyes, wether he makes a racist comment or says “faggot”. So embarrassing.
— Igor ? Brodecki (@ibrodecki) October 25, 2017
Harriman
I guess he is totally unaware that he looks like a gay porn star who likes to bottom while gazing in a mirror?
AndThenTheresMax
Yet when some Sir or Master calls a “slave pig” or “submissive” that…well everyone in the room watching suddenly has a boner. #doublestandard
dwes09
In case you had not noticed, the two are not in any way the same. You are exhibiting the same inability to understand context that the regressives here all show. Black people using the “n-word” is undeniably different than a white person (or other race) in the US using it. Sexual role play ans sexual games are not in any sense real life; and anyone with any brains knows that if a “master” uses an epithet on a “slave”, it is not at all the same as some messed up straight boy on the street doing the same.
Learn to think.
mhoffman953
@dwes09
“Black people using the “n-word” is undeniably different than a white person (or other race) in the US using it”
What?
AllanSum
Was this a sexual encounter we were watching between consenting adults of a commensurate sexual interest? No? Oh well. #doesntgetthepoint
Xzamilloh
It’s okay… Conor advocated for gay marriage passing in his homeland Ireland, so he gets a pass… for reasons
muscl954
Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black? I thought Conor McGregor was gay!
Xzamilloh
I wish!!!!
Jaxton
Gay-identifying men call each other f*g. If you’re going to take the high ground against Conor, don’t stop there. Look at your own back-yards.
Not to mention gay men’s liberal use of words like bitch etc….
AllanSum
He used the descriptor “fagg*t” as a negative. Undeniable. Not sure how that is acceptable unless you are a troll trying to make pathetic excuses for a man who claims to accept and support gay people and then at the drop of a hat, any hat, hell who needs a hat, clumsily blurts out hateful trash. Some support … from him and you.
Jaxton
Bu the way, Conor McGregor has done more for homosexual rights than any of you ever have.
Ander
By the way, NO, he hasn’t.
AllanSum
By the way, what a load of sh*t!
Jaxton
Oh, look, I can see perpetually outraged queens (POQ’s) – who have never done anything for homosexual rights – getting their undies in a twist over something Conor said.
Message to the POQ’s: Conor has done more for homosexual rights than you ever have…or will.
Xzamilloh
Conor has been vocal supporter of gay marriage in Ireland and said he was proud that it passed there… but, outside of that, what else has he done?