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NBA Retracts Store Jersey Policy, Will Allow ‘Free Hong Kong’
Washington Free Beacon ^
| July 14, 2020 1:00 PM
| Jack Beyrer
Posted on 07/15/2020 10:59:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The National Basketball Association quietly backtracked its policy that forbade the text “FreeHongKong” on custom jerseys on its online store after severe blowback.
As the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday, the NBA did not allow the phrase on custom jersey orders but permitted a variety of other phrases, including anti-Semitic messages.
As of Tuesday morning, however, “FreeHongKong” is allowed on jerseys. …
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; china; communism; freehongkong; hongkong; kareemabduljabbar; nba; redchina; xianggang
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posted on
07/15/2020 10:59:00 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
What anti-semetic phrases do they allow? How about anti black or homosexual phrases ???? They bought it and now they own it.
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:13:44 AM PDT
by
shadeaud
(Stand up and be proud that you are Americans regards of color)
To: Olog-hai
Will they allow “Kill All Whites?”
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:14:26 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Olog-hai
Id like to order a jersey....
“Desegregate the NBA!!”
“White Players Matter”
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:21:29 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
(The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
To: Olog-hai
The real question is why such a policy existed in the first place.
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:27:20 AM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: Olog-hai
The NBA dug themselves too deep a hole—they can’t get out of it.
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:28:46 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
To: shadeaud
Just because it can be ordered doesn’t mean it will be produced and delivered.
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:52:44 AM PDT
by
lodi90
To: mac_truck
These are custom orders. Every company has a policy excluding some words that they won’t allow on their products like profanities.
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:54:27 AM PDT
by
lodi90
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/15/2020 11:59:18 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/15/2020 12:10:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
“End Communism” is still not allowed. Nor is “Antifa is Fascism”
To: cgbg
For sure-they can go pound salt. It doesn’t matter any more-they already peed in everyone’s soup and insulted the ticket buyers and people who buy NBA gear.
I know tons of guys who will never EVER spend another dime on that crap again
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posted on
07/15/2020 1:08:09 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
(Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
To: Olog-hai
they have to know they’re on thin ice right now.
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posted on
07/15/2020 1:10:03 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...the NBA did not allow the phrase on custom jersey orders but permitted a variety of other phrases, including anti-Semitic messages.
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posted on
07/15/2020 2:33:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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