Posted on 10/11/2019 4:04:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
We live, as you may have noticed, in the age of "woke" capitalism. Companies aren't just selling products, they're selling more than that. You see it everywhere, in movie trailers, corporate press releases and numerous TV commercials. The message is always the same: Companies aren't just soulless profit-seekers; they have values and principles. They care. They probably care more than you do. Once upon a time, corporate America flattered its customers.
Consider this. Last Friday, Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team, tweeted what seemed like a noncontroversial statement. He wrote: "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong." Now, China, as you may have seen, is trying to crush Hong Kong, and it's not hard to pick a side. China is a racist Communist ethnostate that bans dissent and murders its political opponents. They have Muslims interned in forced reeducation camps at this very moment. They viciously suppress the freedoms that we Americans take for granted.
You'd think every American would stand with Hong Kong without even thinking about it. But not the NBA. The NBA is on China's side. So, Morey was forced to delete his tweet. The NBA issued a statement making it clear that under no circumstances do they support Hong Kong or human freedom.
Steve Kerr is the coach of the NBA's Golden State Warriors. On the question of American politics, he has no problem speaking his mind. He embraces hard-left orthodoxy. He doesn't hesitate to demand stricter gun laws. In the words of one fawning media outlet, and there are many, Kerr "speaks truth to power." So what truths was Kerr ready to speak to China? None, it turns out. Choosing between freedom and fascism turns out to be a confusing choice.
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I used to like watching the NBA in the 80s and early 90s. When thug ball began to take over I gradually lost interest.
Now, with wokeness taking over, I will no longer watch this group of overpaid, entitled elitists.
Now Timmy Cooke has joined the fray by removing the HK.app from the Apple store ... the app tracks HK police.
My dad was a rabid sports fan, had played in HS and coached JrH/HS (boys' and girls') basketball...
He went through the same thing you did, and well before he passed away he was down to watching the Iowa HS tournaments and some womens' college basketball. To the rest of the family's amazement, he cut the NBA (and the NFL) completely out of his life.
I have never watched basketball, as I find it completely boring
Blizzard/Activision has also capitulated to China...
Watch the video of Kerr, these people are weak and those scum weaklings only survive on the usual tardation of conservative outrage. Kerr cannot answer any questions if his “morality” is challenged in any small way.
Slavery is fine as long as it isn’t American 150 years ago according to our Communists.
For boredom, I think soccer has it beat. Any sport played by adult males in underwear is too gay for me.
>>>You’d think every American would stand with Hong Kong without even thinking about it.
But have you heard anything from the President or the State Department about these riots?
This is the second article I've seen in the last week in which Tucker Carlson and Neal Patel engage in emotional grandstanding based on factually wrong information.
For one thing, the story is really about Houston GM Daryl Morey and his employer, the Houston Rockets. The NBA really has nothing to do with this, and was only dragged into the matter because a bunch of self-aggrandizing politicians called them out on it.
I challenge Carlson and Patel to look at the NBA's public statements on this in detail and identify even one thing they find objectionable about them. The NBA did NOT make a statement that said, in any way, that "under no circumstances do they support Hong Kong or human freedom." The NBA basically said: "We really don't give a sh!t about the original Twitter post or the dealings between the Houston GM and his boss." There's nothing wrong with that.
I'll also point out that I agree with Morley's original statement about Hong Kong, but that doesn't mean I think the NBA should be taking sides here. I'm fine with the NBA's hands-off approach for the same reason I thought all the silly "free speech" claims in the Colin Kaepernick episode were a lot of nonsense. This all comes down to a relationship between an employer and an employee, and nothing more.
As Laura Ingraham might say about this: "Shut up and play basketball."
I think that was the original idea of the game ... to keep the black man down. Remember the concept of "midnight basketball"? The thought was that there was only one thing in the world that black men enjoyed doing more than rape, robbery, mayhem and the commission of crime in general.
Basketball and pants that fall down ... two insidious inventions of the man. Oh, and HIV.
“For boredom, I think soccer has it beat. Any sport played by adult males in underwear is too gay for me.”
Someone here stated that if they wanted to watch some guys try to score for ninety minutes he’d take his friends to a bar.
Ha Ha! I never heard that one before and I will be sure to use it. Thanks.
Ditto. I was an NBA fanatic in the '80s until about '92.
I tried to watch game one of the NBA championship ten or so years ago. I made it to halftime, but was bored. Haven't cared a wit for it since.
If the NBA ceased to exist tomorrow, I wouldn't notice.
What was their point - which side of the issue were they wishing to speak to, and why are NBA players now "Taking a knee" at games? Are they virtue signalling against Communist China, or are they virtue signalling against Hong Kong?
The NBA has been Africanized and does not represent America
The NBA wants to be a Global Brand.
Let the bastards move to China. Every U.S. citizen should boycott anything NBA related.
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