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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
It sounds like it's the sports writers the haters should be mad at.

"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."

Who wouldn't hate Taylor Swift, jump shot or not?

I wonder:

Do we really know that she's straight or is that just assumed?

And if the Black lesbians aren't filling the seats at WNBA games, is it time to bring "transwomen" (men) into the league? Who wouldn't want to see "Michelle Jordan" or "Laurie Bird" or "Shakira O'Neal" back on the court?

21 posted on 05/22/2024 8:48:58 AM PDT by x
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
They should claim to be female

And Lesbian.

22 posted on 05/22/2024 8:56:00 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam only understands Death and Pain. Give it to them. )
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To: nesnah

Easy, there, DonI, you might get canceled.


23 posted on 05/22/2024 9:04:48 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Rummyfan

She’s getting the last laugh by getting multi million dollar endorsements while her competitors are making 50K a year with no endorsement. To me. That’s a win. The rest is noise.


24 posted on 05/22/2024 9:04:58 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

You know that its coming and will probably happen sooner than later.


25 posted on 05/22/2024 9:18:17 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Dixie Yooper
Most of the future trans-WNBA stars will be better.

Didn’t Britany Greiner father a child?
26 posted on 05/22/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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27 posted on 05/22/2024 9:39:03 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Rummyfan

Avoid ‘them’


28 posted on 05/22/2024 10:36:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

That was Tyrus point last night on Gutfeld...the racists are shooting their own future down...


29 posted on 05/22/2024 11:21:40 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved)
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To: x

“Do we really know that she’s straight or is that just assumed?”

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors, but ...

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/caitlin-clark-boyfriend-connor-mccaffery-relationship/c7c678a7cc64a2f092754217


30 posted on 05/22/2024 11:22:11 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Certainly cannot be the MOTHER.


31 posted on 05/22/2024 11:30:58 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Rummyfan
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.

So she is very DIVERSE from the general demographic of the team.

There's your DIVERSITY! Let's celebrate it, everyone!

32 posted on 05/22/2024 3:33:48 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Rummyfan

Oh how they hate that good old white bread Amerocan giorl who is not ony a fantastic athlete, buta;so a pretty decent person.

She is a shining light. And these sodomites want to diminish her?

Nah! The love for Caitlin is going ballistic.


33 posted on 05/23/2024 3:18:19 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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