Been digesting this NBA engaging in a China blow bang story and even started to write about it before I gave up. While the plot of the story is simple enough - the NBA kneeling before Zod for money thus betraying the principle values that drives the essence of the American experience - the rhetoric and responses by NBA personalities and radio hosts has been nothing short of breathtaking in its Blue Cap like and utterly ignorant posturing.
Despicable even.
Everyone is an asshole in this story. Silver, Kerr, Popovich, Harden, that Nets owner, and Lebron. Not to mention Disney, ESPN, Phil Nike (sacrifice everything - except here) and Tim Cook. Each of their responses actually deserves a harsh rebuttal.
Hypocritical cowards. All of them.
Everyone except Morey that is.
It's easy to rail against Trump. It's easy to act like everything bad started three years ago and incessantly rail like children about it. It's easy to scold, nag and lecture the American people when you know nothing will happen to you.
No one would have cared if you made your Faustian Deal with China and made your money had you not been such pompous, insufferable nags lecturing about how bad America is.
Wanna impress guys? Take your SJW shtick to China. See how that goes.
See how much you're willing to sacrifice.
Right. You made your choice.
And boy was it the wrong one.
I expect the NBA and its merry band of noted scholars and woke dribblers to double down. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if they even spin this as a plot by 'alt-right extremist trolls in the age of Trump'. Maybe some 'woke' ESPNer will come to the defense of Lebron and allege racism is driving the criticism of his vacuous mindset.
They can engage in all the false equivalencies and circular logic as they choose.
But before they do. Maybe they should all take a moment to think about all the dissidents languishing in prison, the people in concentration camps, gay activists who face death everyday, and human rights organizations and how their own thoughtless words and submission to money impacts them. It must be disheartening - though not the end of the world - for them to hear Americans defend a bullying regime ruled by Winnie the Pooh but they have principles and will continue to fight. I can but offer my mere words of support.
And with that, we can all see through the gutless hypocrisy of the NBA.
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Imagined headline at The Root: "Criticism of Lebron and the NBA is not about freedom of speech but....RACISM!"
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You know. It's ironic. For ll their obsession over slavery, black ballers haves traded that for being slaves to China. That apparently is okay. What do I meant by that? Lebron isn't free. He isn't free to say what he really thinks. He has to say whatever is needed to be said to protect his ability to make 'mo money'. More irony is the fact that despite being fabulously wealthy to the point of reaching billionaire status, he rails against how bad America is but kneels before Winnie.
Dude. Do you really need to do this?
See this Lebron - King of the Wokesters? That's a true, timeless hero. Would you stand before a tank?
No one knows what became of Tank Man. He didn't go on to be a drama queen athlete. He didn't make a deal with Nike. He can't dunk a ball inside a steel rim. He didn't have anything except the convictions of his beliefs. Know what he did there Lebron? He stood up for FREEDOM.
Like a man.
The free world owes much to this individual 30 years on.
Any questions?
Good.
Go fuck yourselves.
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Enough of Lebron and the NBA. They side, in the bigger scheme of things, with China in the fight against capitalist democracy. They dropped the ball. They can't dribble around this.
But Enes Kanter gets it.
This is a man who understands a real 'hard week'.
He deserves respect.
Despicable even.
Everyone is an asshole in this story. Silver, Kerr, Popovich, Harden, that Nets owner, and Lebron. Not to mention Disney, ESPN, Phil Nike (sacrifice everything - except here) and Tim Cook. Each of their responses actually deserves a harsh rebuttal.
Hypocritical cowards. All of them.
Everyone except Morey that is.
It's easy to rail against Trump. It's easy to act like everything bad started three years ago and incessantly rail like children about it. It's easy to scold, nag and lecture the American people when you know nothing will happen to you.
No one would have cared if you made your Faustian Deal with China and made your money had you not been such pompous, insufferable nags lecturing about how bad America is.
Wanna impress guys? Take your SJW shtick to China. See how that goes.
See how much you're willing to sacrifice.
Right. You made your choice.
And boy was it the wrong one.
I expect the NBA and its merry band of noted scholars and woke dribblers to double down. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if they even spin this as a plot by 'alt-right extremist trolls in the age of Trump'. Maybe some 'woke' ESPNer will come to the defense of Lebron and allege racism is driving the criticism of his vacuous mindset.
They can engage in all the false equivalencies and circular logic as they choose.
But before they do. Maybe they should all take a moment to think about all the dissidents languishing in prison, the people in concentration camps, gay activists who face death everyday, and human rights organizations and how their own thoughtless words and submission to money impacts them. It must be disheartening - though not the end of the world - for them to hear Americans defend a bullying regime ruled by Winnie the Pooh but they have principles and will continue to fight. I can but offer my mere words of support.
And with that, we can all see through the gutless hypocrisy of the NBA.
****
Imagined headline at The Root: "Criticism of Lebron and the NBA is not about freedom of speech but....RACISM!"
****
You know. It's ironic. For ll their obsession over slavery, black ballers haves traded that for being slaves to China. That apparently is okay. What do I meant by that? Lebron isn't free. He isn't free to say what he really thinks. He has to say whatever is needed to be said to protect his ability to make 'mo money'. More irony is the fact that despite being fabulously wealthy to the point of reaching billionaire status, he rails against how bad America is but kneels before Winnie.
Dude. Do you really need to do this?
See this Lebron - King of the Wokesters? That's a true, timeless hero. Would you stand before a tank?
No one knows what became of Tank Man. He didn't go on to be a drama queen athlete. He didn't make a deal with Nike. He can't dunk a ball inside a steel rim. He didn't have anything except the convictions of his beliefs. Know what he did there Lebron? He stood up for FREEDOM.
Like a man.
The free world owes much to this individual 30 years on.
Good.
Go fuck yourselves.
****
Enough of Lebron and the NBA. They side, in the bigger scheme of things, with China in the fight against capitalist democracy. They dropped the ball. They can't dribble around this.
But Enes Kanter gets it.
This is a man who understands a real 'hard week'.
He deserves respect.
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