Posted on 04/23/2016 8:57:01 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver put his foot down on Thursday, asserting that for the 2017 All-Star Game be held in Charlotte, it is “necessary” that North Carolina change its law mandating people use only public restrooms corresponding to their biological sex in government buildings.
This moves the discussion to a more definitive stance than the NBA adopted earlier in the month. In an apparent threat, Silver said that he did not know what impact the “discriminatory law” would have on the league’s ability to showcase the game in the Tar Heel state. Silver added that the law is “problematic for the NBA in North Carolina.”
According to Dan Feldman at NBC Sports, “The league is so far ahead on this issue, it deserves praise rather than nitpicking over an evolving message.” He believes that the NBA could still hold the All-Star Game weekend in Charlotte because of viability issues, but that is unlikely given the amount of time before the event scheduled for next February.
NBA icon Charles Barkley and Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy already called for the game to be moved from Charlotte. Entertainers Bruce Springsteen, Boston, and Pearl Jam have also canceled concerts in North Carolina in protest of the law. Recently PayPal jettisoned its plan for a global operations center in Charlotte, which likely cost the state up to 400 new jobs.
Friday, President Obama speaking in London weighed in on the issue saying he thinks that the laws in North Carolina and the “religious freedom law” in Mississippi are “wrong and should be overturned.” Admitting that they are crafted by good people, he stated, “Although I respect their different viewpoints, I think it’s very important for us not to send signals that anybody is treated differently.”
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No.
[[BTW what does NBA stand for?]]
Apparently it’s now short for NAMBLA
Yes.
Instead of standing up to these PC bullies, Trump joined them by criticizing the anaconda law on national TV.
I used to be pro trump. Thought he was anti PC. But he’s not. He’s a PC believer, or a coward
Now he’s dead to me
The ball is in North Carolina’s court. What’s it going to be? BIG money and a bunch of grown men running around in shorts or human decency?
Is it really any wonder why God has allowed us to have fallen so far? Moslems the world over believe, and rightly so in many cases, that the USA is filled with godless heathens that are followers of Satan himself. Little wonder that they feel justified in murdering us. Not that I would ever be a moslem, but put yourself in their shoes for a moment, and think about what our society has become. In just the last 7 years, our country has gone so far left that Hillary looks like a moderate candidate to many people. 7 years ago, I had never heard of a social justice warrior, white privilege, cultural appropriation, transgender, or blm. Nine of us had, and now these are terms used in almost every single thread posted on here. I’m only 40 years old, and I feel like an old man that has been away for decades and have come home to a nightmare. I genuinely fear for my children’s future, and whether I’ll have authorities called on me in the future for abusing them with “hateful indoctrination” because I believe that a man should piss in the men’s room. I’m not the most religious man that I know but I know that the Bible mentions that in the end that good will be labeled as evil and vice versa. Dark will be called light. Those that speak against the darkness will be shunned. The current situation cannot continue for too much longer. Something drastic will have to happen, and it likely won’t be very pleasant when it does.
Adam Silver, don’t let the screen door hit ya where your boyfriend split ya.
“Time to boycott the NBA, and anyone else (performing artists, etc.) who are cancelling events because of these laws.”
Joann, not to offend, but the whole spectrum of “professional sports” is just another “school of worthless turds” not unlike our poiliticians and government employees swimming in a common septic tank. Given their personal largely disgraceful personal attributes, I don’t know why the people of this country waste their time on them. When I look back twenty years ago when I spent a lot of time watching “professional football” it leaves me with the same feeling I’m getting today now that Donald Trump has enlightened me about my being co-opted for at least as many years by the GOPe. So it would be fine with me if all of them went out of business, and if a boycott will facilitate that process, count me in!
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
So instead you want the male transgenders who dressed up as women going into the restroom with your son? Really? Because that’s the alternative.
Oh it already is... dressing rooms and showers.
Sounds like you’re a tranny?
We have become a very sick society.
Aren’t the lines for the bathroom long enough already?
“The days of Noah”..
“Oh what a silly plight
To live as a hermaphrodite”
If we want to see who the spineless idiots are, all we have to do is for us freepers and all conservatives to look in the mirror.
We on the right know nothing about activism and agitating. Imagine the left if an issue dear to their heart was under attack - the stink they would make, the pain they would cause the corporations. We on the other hand just grumble a bit and take it.
Until we start using the same or better tactics, we’ll just continue getting steamrolled.
I don’t follow the NBA at all so I had to look this up. Didn’t the New Orleans Hornets change to the Pelicans some years ago, and allowed the Bobcats to change to the Hornets, which they did back in 2014?
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