Posted on 08/29/2020 8:37:24 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
This train wreck of an NBA season proves revealing in a number of ways. It decimates the illusion that big business is in any way an anchor of moderation and nonpartisanship in American life, as opposed to just another compromised institution—along with the media, universities, and the public school system—used by the Left to bludgeon deplorables out of wrongthink and cudgel undesirables into adopting newspeak. For example: has Commissioner Adam Silver, or anyone in the league, for that matter, read the all-revealing “what we believe” section on blacklivesmatter.com? Do they understand whom they’re assisting? Is championing an organization that openly aims to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” and supplant it with encouragingly Maoist “extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another” in line with the league’s values?
How does “freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking” factor into the league’s goals? It’s difficult to see where exactly all this BLM psychobabble fits in with the NBA’s mission of “growing and celebrating the game of basketball.” Does the league intend to box out bigotry and “make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead” by increasing the representation of the gender dysphoric on every one of its 30 teams’ benches? I’m sure executives are champing at the bit to develop innovative 5-year-plans aimed at “co-creating alongside comrades” and to “engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts”—as soon as they manage to figure out what the hell that’s supposed to mean, of course. And I bet Commissioner Silver is prepared to take the great hopstep forward, be “self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege,” and help smash the patriarchy by resigning his post and “passing the mic.” Drag Queen Dunk Contest, anyone?
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“We are trained Marxists” - BLM
Congrats NBA, your Chinese overlords will be pleased.
Only in America can someone as stupid as Lebron James become a multi-millionaire. Try that skill set in Botswana. They’d have you killing small animals for dinner.
Don’t worry, we’ll always still have the WNBA!
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When will the NBA have race quotas to better reflect the diversity of their fans?
I’ve actually watched a few EuroLeague games, more entertaining, the crowds really get into it.
A picturue’s worth a thousand words.
There was a tent at the carnival that had games and amusements in it.
There was a large, wooden box with a plate of glass in the front.
If you put a quarter in the slot, a chicken would come out from the back of the box.
You could watch as the chicken picked up a tiny basketball and dropped it through a tiny hoop.
Bells would ring and lights would flash and the chicken received some chicken feed.
I don’t think the chicken ever had a shoe contract.
Oh no, don’t cancel it. Keep it going but have a boycott every time a black person gets themselves shot.
It will be fun. A game here, a game there...no game here, no game there...
There was a time when I was a big NBA Fan. Years ago I followed the Lakers and was a huge fan of the likes of Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Magic Johnson and Kareem etc. Today, with all the politics and the way players move from team to team every year, I lost interest. The latest Black Lives Matter protest drove the final nail in the coffin. I wouldn’t walk across the street to see an NBA Game.
Prima dona meet tomato in the best case - if the civil war II heats up and it becomes something like the Spanish civil war these people are in for a world of hurt as it is, they better have great security because I suspect going forward the police aint doing anything quickly for these losers.
This crap has gotten so insane it makes me long for the 60s.
A year ago I would have said no way. But after the insanity of the last few months I am no longer sure.
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