I can't handle the NBA anymore. It's a cess pool of wild, faux-righteous virtue signalling stupidity.
The last straw for me was the league changing the word 'owner' to governors to describe, well, the owners who own the franchises.
All because another phony and bastion of intellectual thought Draymond Green thought the word 'owner' conjured up images of slavery.
It's all so sophomoric and preposterous.
Governors, as you know, are elected officials just to further cement the idiocy of it all.
No NBA. They're owners.
Oh. And in case this pointless exercise (which literally advances nothing) in empty language manipulation wasn't enough, take a gander at Green's own bio on Twitter:
"Forward for the Golden State Warriors by way of Michigan State and Saginaw Michigan... Owner of Performance Inspired Nutrition"
Furthermore, and more dear to me as a committed student of history, I was particularly annoyed by Greg Popovich's facile 'we are now Rome' quip after Trump's election. If I were a reporter I would have asked how exactly? I would have pressed and asked how a country that was often compared to Rome going back years and years could suddenly become 'Rome'? And what part? Was he focusing on a narrow prism to fit his narrative say from the point of Nero on?
Really wasn't impressed because anyone with a grasp of Roman history wouldn't have made such an obviously politically motivated comment.
It's similar to the persistent nonsense of Trump being Hitler and America becoming Nazi Germany. Every single time I demand someone explain and back up their assertion with specifics they never do.
Know why? Because a) most are just repeating stupid talking points and b) there are no examples to cite.
Moving on to Lebron James.
The poster child for SJW on the sports landscape, it seems he's catching some flack for him mimicking a Mexican accent while telling about his taco Tuesdays in his home.
Here's the problem with this.
It was innocuous. Fun even. But these are times where the Twitter mob (who do not represent the thinking of any nation on any level) will take a fun thing and turn into a festival of outrage.
And Lebron played his own role in fostering this atmosphere.
Remember his anger about Jackson's 'posse'? How offended he got? James is always making sure he defends blacks. He may have even orchestrated a hoax about racism soon after Trump's election when racist graffiti was said to have been found at his home. We never got the full story on that and it was eventually memory holed.
Given the precedence he helped set, this was not only tone deaf but displayed some cognitive dissonance.
Put it to you succinctly. If a white or Hispanic NBA player went on Twitter and spoke Ebonics about eating fried chicken and water melon with their 'posse', how would Lebron react?
I think we all know.
That's the point of the push back.
The NBA, of course, would suspend that player and who knows? May force them to recant and apologize. Lebron? Nah.
He gets to do whatever the fuck he wants.
Which brings me to his antics at his son's basketball game. I don't care about that so won't talk about it.
I just want to respond to a comment Nick Wright on Mad Dog Sports made about it. I think the vast majority of people, whether they think it was over the top or not, can live with it. It's a silly basketball game. Most would just conclude a father was celebrating his son and move on. They have every right to also feel it was exaggerated and particularly so for someone of James' stature.
Decorum matters for some.
But when Wright argues along the lines of 'he's Lebron and he can do what he wants so too bad, too sad deal with', I disagree completely.
What is it with sports writers and commentators and their constant giving of passes to celebrity athletes for actions and behaviours that can be perceived to be excessive?
You think it was okay? Do so but spare us this double standard rubbish.
I don't accept he gets to live by another standard than the rest of civil society.
He then completely lost me when he cited Nye and De Grasse-Tyson.
I don't understand how anyone who pays close attention hasn't realized these two are just pop culture faces.
The last straw for me was the league changing the word 'owner' to governors to describe, well, the owners who own the franchises.
All because another phony and bastion of intellectual thought Draymond Green thought the word 'owner' conjured up images of slavery.
It's all so sophomoric and preposterous.
Governors, as you know, are elected officials just to further cement the idiocy of it all.
No NBA. They're owners.
Oh. And in case this pointless exercise (which literally advances nothing) in empty language manipulation wasn't enough, take a gander at Green's own bio on Twitter:
"Forward for the Golden State Warriors by way of Michigan State and Saginaw Michigan... Owner of Performance Inspired Nutrition"
Furthermore, and more dear to me as a committed student of history, I was particularly annoyed by Greg Popovich's facile 'we are now Rome' quip after Trump's election. If I were a reporter I would have asked how exactly? I would have pressed and asked how a country that was often compared to Rome going back years and years could suddenly become 'Rome'? And what part? Was he focusing on a narrow prism to fit his narrative say from the point of Nero on?
Really wasn't impressed because anyone with a grasp of Roman history wouldn't have made such an obviously politically motivated comment.
It's similar to the persistent nonsense of Trump being Hitler and America becoming Nazi Germany. Every single time I demand someone explain and back up their assertion with specifics they never do.
Know why? Because a) most are just repeating stupid talking points and b) there are no examples to cite.
Moving on to Lebron James.
The poster child for SJW on the sports landscape, it seems he's catching some flack for him mimicking a Mexican accent while telling about his taco Tuesdays in his home.
Here's the problem with this.
It was innocuous. Fun even. But these are times where the Twitter mob (who do not represent the thinking of any nation on any level) will take a fun thing and turn into a festival of outrage.
And Lebron played his own role in fostering this atmosphere.
Remember his anger about Jackson's 'posse'? How offended he got? James is always making sure he defends blacks. He may have even orchestrated a hoax about racism soon after Trump's election when racist graffiti was said to have been found at his home. We never got the full story on that and it was eventually memory holed.
Given the precedence he helped set, this was not only tone deaf but displayed some cognitive dissonance.
Put it to you succinctly. If a white or Hispanic NBA player went on Twitter and spoke Ebonics about eating fried chicken and water melon with their 'posse', how would Lebron react?
I think we all know.
That's the point of the push back.
The NBA, of course, would suspend that player and who knows? May force them to recant and apologize. Lebron? Nah.
He gets to do whatever the fuck he wants.
Which brings me to his antics at his son's basketball game. I don't care about that so won't talk about it.
I just want to respond to a comment Nick Wright on Mad Dog Sports made about it. I think the vast majority of people, whether they think it was over the top or not, can live with it. It's a silly basketball game. Most would just conclude a father was celebrating his son and move on. They have every right to also feel it was exaggerated and particularly so for someone of James' stature.
Decorum matters for some.
But when Wright argues along the lines of 'he's Lebron and he can do what he wants so too bad, too sad deal with', I disagree completely.
What is it with sports writers and commentators and their constant giving of passes to celebrity athletes for actions and behaviours that can be perceived to be excessive?
You think it was okay? Do so but spare us this double standard rubbish.
I don't accept he gets to live by another standard than the rest of civil society.
He then completely lost me when he cited Nye and De Grasse-Tyson.
I don't understand how anyone who pays close attention hasn't realized these two are just pop culture faces.
Progressives and liberals and the 'I fucking love science' crowd can't seem to scratch the micron-thin surface and see that Nye and Tyson are pseudo-intellectuals simply used as cudgels for their willingness to parrot the party line.
Nye in particular is an odious character given a) he's an engineer and b) called for the imprisonment of 'deniers' who are skeptical of the whole climate change narrative which is pretty much a cult in disrepute.
Gee, the tolerant left looking to silence people through imprisonment.
Where have we seen this before?
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