What White People Don’t See When They Watch Basketball

New York Magazine ^ | 3/20 | Jonathan Chait

[Darren McCarty]

Jonathan Chait spelled his name wrong. The C is an S, and there's no "a" in it.

Go Spartans.

[chris37]

Seeing that I’m white, that isn’t something that I watch.

Oh no he di’in’!

Oh yes he di’id!

[Rummyfan]

Oh shut the hell up!

[x1stcav]

Huh?

[chesley]

And the point is?

Everybody has preconceptions. White preconceeptions are no more evil than those of anyone else.

[dfwgator]

Basically we’re all racists.

[Billthedrill]

Yep, Johnny, we're all so immersed in Whiteness that we can't even see straight. No hope for us.

I'm patiently awaiting the day this ridiculous, racist, superficial, two-bit pop-sociology fad fades into a deserved obscurity.

[PGR88]

My take away from reading this - The author has no point whatsoever, and racism is always and everywhere whatever the speaker declares it to be.

[Navy Patriot]

What White People Don’t See When They Watch Basketball

The Box Office?

[MrB]

It must suck to look at the whole world through a straw.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Well Chait’s the whitest mu fo on the planet….

[karnage]

What white people don’t see when they watch basketball is white players.

[henkster]

What White People Don’t See When They Watch Basketball

Diversity.

[x1stcav]

‘Basically we’re all racists.’

Hell, I’ve known that for years. Does this doosh get paid?

[MrB]

By the LEFTIST definition of “diversity”, you’re seeing the culmination of it.

“Diversity” means

fewer white people, less Western Culture.

The basketball court is the penultimate example of “diversity”.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Everybody has preconceptions. White preconceeptions are no more evil than those of anyone else.”

Funny, no mention of Wayne Simmonds color when NHL games are on.

[Vigilanteman]

Basketball is the only sport that gets duller as the level of competition goes up. We had a 5'6" kid in high school who could literally scamper under the outstretched arms of blockers to make baskets. Very exciting.

By college, you still have kids who can make exciting 3 point shots. Not quite as exciting as my high school classmate, but close.

NBA: eight foot guys making eight foot baskets. Whoopie!

They ought to raise the basket at least five feet higher than the median height of players in the league. Coach John Wooden suggested something similar when he was alive, but the regulation height is still what it was more than a century ago when Naismith invented the game . . . in an era when 5'6" was an AVERAGE height.

[Servant of the Cross]

Jonathan Chait hears the same 'dog whistles' that Chrissie Tingles Matthews does.

Sophomore Nik Stauska of the University of Michigan men’s basketball team was named the 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year by the coaches and media