The dear fighter Rob Van Dam has surprised to talk about the controversy in which Hulk Hogan lived his last decade of life, due to the fact that some videos and audios were filtered where he made racist comments. For RVD, the late Hulk Hogan was not racist and had the right to say If someone did not like his daughter's partner, Brooke Hogan.
And, although he accepted that the terms Hogan used were wrong, he also said that fans gave him harder than his friend, The Hulkster deserved. These were his interesting words in his video podcast 1 Of A Kind With RVD:
► RVD defends a Hulk Hogan for “exaggerated criticisms for his case of racism”
“Vince McMahon admitted that Hogan made a very serious mistake, paid for it and moved on. As I personally know Hogan, it seems unfair to me that so many people I hate him only for a small part of his past.
“Vince speaking about Hogan's racial insult, you know, I think that perhaps, in perspective, in the general panorama, that could relativize a little. It is not as if he had murdered someone, you know? And when he heard Vince say, you know, he makes mistakes and made a mistake, and he was really big, and paid for it. However I said it, I thought, and he is right, but I also thought:
«Man, knowing Hulk as I know him, and then knowing that there are so many people who simply choose to hate him without even knowing him, but they hate him for that little they know about him … I simply felt that those comments supported that kind of consequence or punishment. Like that process of thinking of: Yes, I understand what you want to say.
«If someone is racist, he does not need society to tell him to hate that person. I wasn't saying that Hulk Hogan is or not, only that people should decide how serious that is compared to other bad actions.
«I wondered why society says that you have to hate a racist rather than someone who deceives his spouse or mistreats his Couple, when we should all be able to decide for ourselves what is worse.
“I say it every week, you know? But if someone is racist, I don't need other people in society to tell me that I must hate that person because he is racist. And I'm not saying that Hulk is or not. That is, you heard it in his own words to say that he supposed that it was, more or less, or whatever. So the point is irrelevant. I just say that, anyway, it could be anyone.
«You could be you. If it turns out that you hate a certain race of people and you feel it very strongly, I might think that makes you stupid, but if everyone tells me that I must hate you – and they tell me that I must hate you more than an adulterer, rather than a women's abuser – shouldn't I be able to choose for myself who is the worst person, and if that has something to do or not with how I interact with that person? Do you understand what I say?
«People are entitled to their own feelings. For example, if a black family does not want your daughter to marry a white man, that is her choice. I admitted that racial insults are wrong today, but argued that being racist should still be compared to other actions such as deceiving or hitting the wife.
“So, said that, there are many people who think that Hulk is a horrible person. And I also think that if someone does not want your child to marry someone from another race, I think they should have the right to have those feelings. You know, if it is a black family and do not want their daughter to marry a white boy, I think they have that right. Now, language, rap, insults … All of that are crimes in today's society. But even so, for me, seeing the general panorama and comparing someone who is racist, with someone who deceives his wife, with someone who hits his wife … “
«I compared this with the culture of rap, where racism is not accepted, but things like deception or even violence against women can normalize. I pointed to offset as an example cheating Cardi B many times. For me, society can hurry to say that someone is “the devil” to say the word with N, but be more indulgent with other errors.
“Suppose, in the culture of rap, it is probably safe to assume that, one, they probably don't like racists. Two, they could agree with hitting women, because it is cool to give them a slap of Proxeneta. And adulterate is fine, because everyone does it and discover them all the time. As offset cheating at Cardi B again and again and again until it finally seems that it separated them.
«I mean, they choose their own values. And they say: “Oh, said the word with N, is the devil. ' You know, but they have that right. But we also have the right to take that into consideration together with all the other factors that we want to include, even some that they do not include, as if he is a good person or not, things like that, right? ”
