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Caitlin Clark Shamed for Being ‘White, Straight, and From Iowa’
PJ Media ^ | 21 May 2024 | Matt MArgolis

Posted on 05/22/2024 8:03:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Honestly, I'd never even heard of Caitlin Clark until more than a month ago when I was visiting my childhood home and wound up watching the LSU-Iowa game with my father. During the game — the first college basketball game I'd watched ever — my dad pointed out Caitlin Clark and praised her as a star player who'd broken all sorts of records and was bound for the WNBA.

Sure enough, he was right, and now it seems I hear about Caitlin Clark all the time — including the controversy of her five-figure salary at the WNBA, which pales in comparison to the lowest salaries of star players in the league that people actually watch: the NBA.

But I digress. It was clear that Clark's talent had generated interest in women's basketball, including the WNBA. This is arguably a good thing because, right or wrong, the WNBA continues to struggle to attract interest from sports fans.

Naturally, the interest that Clark has generated in the WNBA has triggered the liberal media because of identity politics.

"Women’s basketball has never seen anything like Caitlin Clark, the sweet-shooting rookie guard for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever," writes Los Angeles Times staff writer Kevin Baxter. "She’s Taylor Swift with a jump shot, Mia Hamm in a singlet; a figure so transcendent she is changing her profession."

Baxter went on to note that more than 55,000 people showed up to watch her play a practice game last fall, her final college game drew 24 million TV viewers this spring, and more than three million people tuned into ESPN to watch her get drafted.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basketball; blackracistsmatter; caitlinclark; hatespeech; identitypolitics; iowa; race; sports; wnba
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To: Rummyfan
But Clark, who will lead the Fever against the Sparks on Friday at Crypto.com Arena, also stands out for who she’s not. In a league in which approximately 70% of the players are Black, nearly a third identify as LGBTQ and most come from urban environments, Clark is white, straight, and from Iowa.

The lesbians and haters can .... lump it.

2 posted on 05/22/2024 8:04:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Okay, being from Iowa I can understand…but the other two? Come on, man!


3 posted on 05/22/2024 8:05:25 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: Rummyfan

She just signed another with Wilson I think

That’s too bad 😎


4 posted on 05/22/2024 8:06:55 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Rummyfan

White, straight, talented, deserving and not full of hate, no wonder she stands out.


5 posted on 05/22/2024 8:07:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Rummyfan
Nicole Melton, co-director of the Laboratory for Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, agrees.

“Cailtin fits a very comfortable narrative for a lot of people in the United States,” she said. “She comes from the heartland. She’s an amazing talent. She’s also a white, straight woman, right? There’s not a lot of things that would make people feel uncomfortable with that person being successful.”

UMass has a lab for Inclusion and Diversity in Sport?! WTF?! I wonder what the lab fees are...

6 posted on 05/22/2024 8:07:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

The wnba finally has a role model


7 posted on 05/22/2024 8:07:50 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Rummyfan

haters gonna hate hate hate. or as Aesop said

You can’t please everyone, don’t try.


8 posted on 05/22/2024 8:08:43 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: Rummyfan

Most of the future trans-WNBA stars will be better.


9 posted on 05/22/2024 8:09:05 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Rummyfan

LGBTQ, woke, politically correct nonsense does not help sell anything and leaves such a bad taste in most people’s mouths that they will avoid any sponsor who advocates their crap.

I have never heard of Caitlin Clark previously, but she looks like a good example for others and has obvious value for sponsors. But never underestimate the stupidity of our leftist media!


10 posted on 05/22/2024 8:09:34 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Rummyfan

Five or six really good men basketball players should band together and go to a small Division 1 basketball school. They should claim to be female, although respecting women’s privacy, etc., and go out for the women’s basketball team and win the NCAA Women’s basketball championship. That would stop all this nonsense about allowing men to compete in women’s sports.


11 posted on 05/22/2024 8:10:43 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Rummyfan

This isnt a case of glamor overriding sporting talent. She’s a pleasant looking young woman, but no great beauty. This isnt (much) about celebrity sex appeal.


12 posted on 05/22/2024 8:12:26 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Rummyfan

When I think of the WNBA, I think of WNBGay. It’s negroid sour grapes because she’s getting attention for her play.
maybe she needs to take a Larry Bird trash talking course.


13 posted on 05/22/2024 8:12:45 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Rummyfan

“White, straight and from Iowa.”

I couldn’t imagine anything better


14 posted on 05/22/2024 8:17:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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“her $28 million sponsorship with Nike in 2024 is more than ten times Michael Jordan’s first deal with Nike 40 years ago. He didn’t account for inflation, by the way.”

I believe that’s about $6 million more than Nike paid colin kaepernick- for doing nothing


15 posted on 05/22/2024 8:17:10 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Sounds like some of the WNBA nappy headed hoes ain’t real keen on her.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream White-American who is athletically talented and white and clean and a nice-looking girl....I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”


16 posted on 05/22/2024 8:17:38 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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“Nicole Melton, co-director of the Laboratory for Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, agrees.

“Cailtin fits a very comfortable narrative for a lot of people in the United States,” she said. “She comes from the heartland. She’s an amazing talent. She’s also a white, straight woman, right?”

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Nicole, you left out perhaps the most important part.

Caitlyn Clark has OUTWORKED her competition for years. All the talents and attributes one is gifted with by God doesn’t mean diddly if you don’t FOCUS and WORK HARD.


17 posted on 05/22/2024 8:18:58 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: nesnah

They are as bad as muslims thinking once they have taken over something its theirs forever. Cannot begin to grasp that her coming to the WNBA will help everyone. Forget about grasping that if they treat her poorly/drive her out it will kill what little interest there is for it.
* still think she should have gone with the Big 3 and collected the endorsements.


18 posted on 05/22/2024 8:24:36 AM PDT by 1malumprohibitum
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To: Rummyfan

Minority signs multi year deal with Wilson

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40191102/caitlin-clark-signs-multiyear-endorsement-deal-wilson

Racists complain


19 posted on 05/22/2024 8:27:18 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Nobody complained when Tiger Woods brought a whole new demographic to golf. His skill, discipline, and success got younger and more diverse people into the game as participants and fans.

If Caitlin brings in more people to the ever-struggling WNBA then that should be considered a good thing.

Black dykish lesbians are not filling the seats at WNBA arenas. Maybe they need to get more diversity in their fan base.

20 posted on 05/22/2024 8:36:36 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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