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And I'm scared of his drug addled ass, so swings and round abouts.

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[-] Dojan@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago

"When I'm standing by myself and three gays are next to me touching my leg, I get scared … I'm sorry. If that's homophobic, then I'm that," he said. "I'll be honest with you, big gay people are scary to me."

Touching as in like, there’s so many people you can’t avoid bumping into people, or groping? I definitely get it if it’s the latter, and I’ve met plenty of people who think getting a squeeze in without permission is okay. We have scumbags like that in the LGBTQ+ community as well, unfortunately.

[-] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

That’s how many women feel around straight guys lol.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly.

I find it hard to not be sympathetic if that’s how he felt.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree, but I don't know if LaBeouf is a reliable narrator

Jeffrey Damnit, a well-known local entertainer who police identified as Jeffrey Klein in the incident report, said he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf [...]
LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others that he would beat them up, Damnit said. He added that LaBeouf had pushed him from behind at the bar earlier in the night, shouting homophobic slurs and threatening his life [...]
“I didn’t shove nobody, I never touched nobody,” LaBeouf tells New Orleans police officers in the video recorded by Damnit.

Source

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

Could still be his lived experience through the lens of drugs and/or alcohol. I don't really know anything about this guy, but from the other comments it sounds like he needs some proper help. Or maybe he's just a psycho who likes beating up gay guys, there's plenty of people like that in the world too.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Could be trauma from someone higher up in Hollywood. Terry Crews opened up about being grooped by a high level male executive. Brendan Fraser has also claimed to have had the same thing happen to him and that compounded his long hiatus. Neither resorted to homophobia, but this seems to have come out of nowhere with Shia, so I'm inclined to believe there's trauma involved.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Ah, the "gay panic" defense. A shitbag classic.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Actual, homophobe Shia LaBeouf?!

[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

For those curious, this is a quote taken from his interview with Channel 5 News. I personally thought it was a really sad interview that shows just how far gone this man's mind is. It doesn't excuse the things he has done, but I do feel bad for him as a former child actor who has developed mental illness like so many other former child actors.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Then why the Freddy Mercury cosplay?

[-] rosco385@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

🎵Actual ~~cannibal~~ homophobe, Shia LaBeouf🎶

[-] Fives@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

I have a problem with being touched by random people while in large crowds, but I avoid the problem altogether by avoiding large crowds, not by being homophobic.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Did something happen to this guy?

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago
[-] orionsbelt@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

how is this unstable scumbag still getting a platform? ugh.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Does he have a history of this? This is the first time I ever heard of him being a homophobe.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

The Beef has nothing to fear.

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