Posted on 05/27/2024 12:47:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I haven’t been a sports fan for many years, partly because I don’t have time to keep up with the world of sports and partly because I have zero tolerance for the unsportsmanlike conduct that has come to characterize, if not dominate, it. And yet I am fast becoming FrontPageMag’s resident sports reporter: fresh off my defense of NFL kicker Harrison Butker for giving a commencement speech that championed traditional values and sent the media into an apoplectic fit, here I am about to leap to the defense of another athlete who is drawing petty media fire for nothing more than the contemporary sin of being white.
Even I know that 22-year-old Iowan college phenom and now WNBA star Caitlin Clark is an outstanding talent who is helping to draw a whole new generation of fans to women’s basketball. The left-leaning media pay lip service to gratitude about this, but can’t help carping about the fact that Clark belongs to a demographic they openly despise: straight, white Midwesterners.
An editorial in the reliably far-left Los Angeles Times, for example, frets that Clark’s popularity “draws questions of race and equity” – because the L.A. Times puts a race-and-equity spin on every editorial. The piece notes that “approximately 70% of [WNBA] players are Black [sic], nearly a third identify as LGBTQ and most come from urban environments,” but “Clark is white, straight and from Iowa.” The Times doesn’t explicitly state what’s wrong with being a straight white Iowan, but we all know what the problem is: the Left literally worships diversity unless straight white people get in the mix. Then it’s, “There goes the neighborhood.”
The article goes on to cite female critics complaining that Straight White Clark is getting attention, accolades, and endorsements that lesbian black players...
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The media does not pull crap like this with white foot ball players. Leave the girl alone. If she was not straight she would be a hero.
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I don’t know about basketball 🏀🏀🏀 but in Women’s Tennis 🎾🎾🎾, I always...
I support my tribe
“...the Left literally worships diversity unless straight white people get in the mix...”
Why don’t they kick her out of the league?
If you’re white and excel at anything, you’re a racist and must be stopped.
Only blacks are allowed to succeed, since they’ve been held back since the beginning of time, and slavery was not the cause.
We’ll wait until black Africa begins to excel and takes over the world; then and only then, will whites be allowed to exist with no objections.
The world will have to hold its collective breath for that to happen, but that could mean that humanity kills itself off by not breathing. Was I being racist with that comment? I think not, since there has been nothing stopping blacks from excelling and they’re still being held back by those that continue to classify them as victims of the white race. If it’s true that humanity began in Africa, then, why haven’t blacks ruled the world from the beginning?
Essence of how TV money ruined sports.
This is a difficult time for the race baiters. They are showing their true colours as shakedown artists and racist pigs. Don’t make no mistake about it, most blacks wish whites dead or in concentration camps. The get all apoplectic when whites excel in anything in which “they” are supposed to be superior. Intelligence and spirit can exceed genetics in organized sports.
Can somebody explain to me why this headline is not racist?
Don’t worry. In a few years the wnba will be filled with female Dennis Rodmans. Diversity will have arrived.
Her teammates like and support her. Apparently they haven’t got with the program yet.
Because white people are the only people it is legal to discriminate against, and discrimination against them is required by law.
Caitlin Clark is the rare female athlete who appeals to straight white men who make up the vast majority of sports fans in the U.S. today. It should come as no surprise to anyone that this demographic group has no interest in watching ugly, wretched ghetto lesbians play a third-rate sport.
I care nothing for the WNBA but she’s just trying to play basketball and earn a living. The media just needs to STFU and let her go about it.
Especially if she had a Black Girlfriend.
It wouldn't be the first time that a coach was offered money to lose games over and above the financial incentives to win them.
FWIW, the coach’s salary is $500K per year with bonuses for winning
I don’t mind being disliked by people, just so that I’m armed.
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In matters of taste, there is no dispute.
This editorial is as insane as critizing someone for preferring Pepsi to Coke. It doesn't make sense. We like what we like an that's that. A lot of people like and admire Caitlin. So what? These L.A. Times Nazis want to force people to enjoy the correct things in life: tofu, silverbacks, fake meat.
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