Kyrie Irving Says His Flat Earth Theory Was Just A Social Experiment To Troll Everybody
BOSTON (CBS) — Listening to Kyrie Irving, it’s pretty clear the guy knows what he is talking about.
…he comes across as a pretty intellectual individual. That’s why so many people had a tough time grasping the fact that he proclaimed earlier this year that he believes the earth is flat.
Irving sat down with Rich Shertenlieb and Jon Wallach of 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich at Monday’s Celtics media day, and admitted that he was indeed trolling everyone around the world with that flat earth stuff.
“Look, look. Here it is. All I want to do is be able to have that open conversation,” Irving told Shertenlieb. “It was all an exploitation tactic. It literally spun the world — your guy’s world — it spun it into a frenzy and proved exactly what I thought it would do in terms of how all this works. It created a division, or, literally stand up there and let all these people throw tomatoes at me, or have somebody think I’m somehow a different intellectual person because I believe that the earth is flat and you think the world is round. It created exactly that.
“It became like, because I think different, does that knock my intellectual capacity or the fact that I can think different things than you?” he asked. “That was the intent behind it. Do your own research, don’t come to me and ask me. At the end of the day, you’re going to feel and believe the way you want to feel. But don’t knock my life over that.
“When I do something, I know my intent. And it proved what I thought it would,” said Irving.
Some controversial, dumb opinions were just a social experiment huh?
Hmmmm….
The Barstool U fans know exactly where this was headed the second they clicked on the headline:
Cue the Marshall Henderson blog!
Marshall Henderson…Not A Michael Sam Fan. *Update: It Was Just A Social Experiment His Gay Psych Major Best Friend Asked Him To Do* (May 2014)
Marshall! Shut it down! Shut down the Twitter! Come on man! What is it with these athletes? We get it. You hate gays. That’s your right. Why tweet it out to hundreds of thousands of people? Especially when you see what happens to literally everyone else who does it? Forced apologies, horrible press, team suspensions, really worth it just to do some gay bashing?
PS – Marshall to every tolerant non homophobic person on Twitter right now:
Update:
In perhaps the most amazing Twitter move I have ever seen, Marshall is now claiming his best friend, a gay psychology major, asked him to send those tweets as an experiment.
Hey Twitter. You just got fucking schooled bro!
And three years later, my words still hold up – it’s still the most amazing Twitter move I’ve ever seen. The ultimate excuse. “Just a social experiment.” Try it in your ordinary everyday life. Try it with your girlfriend or boss. It was just a social experiment babe. I was just using an “exploitation tactic” to see how you’d react so I could get further ahead, sir. It’s foolproof. Worked for Marshall Henderson back in the day (who never even thinks about Michael Sam anymore) and it should work for Kyrie today. He doesn’t really think the world is flat. He just wanted to troll everyone and get their heads spinning, like the globe spins, because it’s definitely round and not flat.
It’s called PSYCHOLOGY folks…and you all just got taken to school.
PS,
To be fair I do not believe either one of them.