Posted on 07/12/2024 9:18:00 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Harrison Butker apparently didn't enjoy watching Serena Williams joke that he wasn't welcome in the world of women's sports.
A day after the tennis legend roasted him onstage alongside her sister Venus and "Abbott Elementary" creator and star Quinta Brunson, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker issued a statement to NBC News complaining about the joke:
"I thought Mrs. Williams was a great host and applaud her for using her platform to express her beliefs on a variety of topics."
He added: "Sports are supposed to be the great unifier and at an event dedicated to celebrating a diverse group of men and women who have accomplished great feats, she used it as an opportunity to disinvite those with whom she disagrees with from supporting fellow athletes."
The line about Butker came during a segment in which the Williams sisters and Brunson gave a tongue-in-cheek seminar on how to enjoy women's sports. Butker wasn't the only person to be the butt of a joke — the trio subtly called out ESPN's Pat McAfee for calling Caitlin Clark a "white bitch from Indiana" and Williams made a crack about how winning a Grand Slam while pregnant is more impressive than if LeBron James won an NBA championship with his son Bronny.
The Butker line, however, was the most direct. It came at the end of the segment when Venus was explaining how everyone should get into women's sports, to which Serena said "Except you, Harrison Butker. We don't need you."
Butker has become one of the most divisive figures in the NFL since his commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Butker spoke on several politically touchy subjects, including… his belief that women have been told "diabolical lies" about pursuing professional careers rather than becoming homemakers.
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Maybe women’s sports should throw the tranny trash out too, while they are at it? Just a thought. I doubt you catch Mr Butker dressed in drag swimming in competition or in jail in Russia.
I’m pretty sure that is intentional.
So, you are anti-Butker?
No. What gives you that idea?
Because, you didn’t say anything to defend him. you just said some garbled identity politics. Do you even know what he said, or understand it? In a way, you insulted him just as much as she did.
Why would a white guy MacAfee call Clark a white bitch? Is he trying to raise eyebrows like Stephen A Smith? What does it buy him?
Is Serena against men playing in women’s sports? I thought that is what she meant.
Yeah, single out the one person who has traditional values, and suggesting he be excluded from her world.
Just more open season by black leftists on white males and family values.
BTW, are black leftists redundant? How about female black leftists?
Yes. Someone once said to the effect that a male tennis player rated 100th in the world could easily beat the top rated women’s tennis player. Black females across the spectrum of politics, academia, entertainment and sports have behaved very badly recently. Lesbian Serena is now added to the list.
I wish someone would give those bullies a taste of their own medicine for a change.
I’m pretty sure it was Serena who said that.
“Into women’s sports” meant being supports and fans. But not Butker. He’s too regressive.
AMEN!! Good is Bad....Bad is Good....Up is Down....Black is white. NOT GOING TO END WELL!!
But giving the Pat Tillman Award to a guy who thinks that the First Amendment in bonkers, who is aiding multiple Deep States in censoring free speech, who just got caught destroying potential trial evidence on a court case...
That’s great!
Butker is only "divisive" because the left doesn't like what he says. Unification can only come from the right acquiescing to the malevolent whims of the left, after all.
Butker said that the "diabolical lies" are the ones that proclaim a woman can ONLY be fulfilled and happy if she has a career. Being a mother and wife first is supposedly a guaranteed ticket to self-loathing, according to the left. Butker reminded the women in the audience that for some of them - SOME of them - their true vocation may be motherhood, not careerism.
Butker is right - but the left can't stand up to what he actually said, so they distort it outrageously. Kind of like when President Trump talked about UV light being used as an internal disinfectant in the body - the left claims he called for drinking bleach.
/Rant
BOOM!!!
He was using the language of Clark’s critics. Hang some air quotes around the phrase to get a better idea of how he used it.
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