It’s just wild to me that some of these sports over the years have or had sexual offenders, abusers people who have done some vile things on their roster, but lord forbid people kneel and have some words other than their name on their jersey! Cuz that’s where the line is drawn lmao.
Oh no, you need to be quiet forever.
As far as sports are concerned, I only really follow College football and any sport Clemson is playing in (as well as the NFL but not nearly as big into the NFL as I am CFB). Anyway, What is the NBA doing in relation to China? Genuine question.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774985504/the-nba-and-hong-kong-protests
Marlow hit the nail on the head, basically they are pathetic cucks simping for China for the revenue. Then they have the nerve to act like they give a fuck about how people are treated here?
It kind of highlights one of the main problems with relying on corporate entities or business organizations for leadership on social issues.
Hollywood totally does this too. The crappy soulless Red Dawn remake was supposed to be about China invading America, but they didn't want to offend the Chinese audience, so they changed it in post to North Korea.
That makes sense, I don't find it hypocritical for players to do so either. They are doing so as individuals rather than "leaders" or simply basketball players. But the NBA organization is just nasty, very cringey and obvious what they are doing. If they gave a fuck about free speech or anything they would have the balls to back people within their organization for showing support for the people of Hong Kong.
Good point! It has actually got much worse recently. In 2013, Dice/EA's Battlefield 4 was their most recent modern game and was centered around China being the worst. I dont know man, I don't see a game like that getting made now, Russia is the popular bad guy once again.
Reminds me of J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot always talking about how they want to help end racism and raise awareness for race issues, then turn around and scrub the black people from their posters and remove all traces of homosexuality from their movies for the Chinese audience.
Movies, games, everything really would be better if creators were empowered to stick to their vision and make it just a fuck it, take it or leave it kind of thing. But a lot of these projects come out so generic and samey because of the strangle hold of appeasing EVERYONE. I think The Last of Us 2 has a shit ton of issues and the shit going on at Naughty Dog behind the scenes, as well as Neil Druckmann himself saying and doing things that are questionable at best.... I still respect them for making the game they wanted to and not being too terrified of disappointing people to tell the story they wanted to tell. Wether that story ended up being great or not (it's a let down imo) is beside the point, it was refreshing to be surprised, angry, and shocked at something. Kind of the opposite of Transformers which has no surprises, is pretty safe and inoffensive, but ultimately does nothing. Then again, at least Micheal Bay doesn't pretend like he is doing anything important. At least Neil Druckmann doesn't pretend that he did anything other than tell his own story because it's what he wanted to do. People like these NBA cucks need to stay in their fucking lane and be the National Basketball Association, nobody wants or needs their empty, meaningless, hollow takes on social injustices.
The NBA has been unwatchable since the end of the SuperSonics.
As someone who loves George Karl and rooted for the SuperSonics his entire youth, I cannot like this statement enough.
Sexual offenders in sports, particularly in gymnastics, continue to be exposed and charged with sexual abuse. Nobody is charging players who kneel with any crime as there is none. I honestly have no idea what kind of equivalency you are attempting to draw in this case.
Its not the charges I am focusing on, its the fact that things that should warrant the nba becoming unwatchable don't, and things that shouldn't make it unwatchable apparently do. The point I am making is people like you and others I have seen are actually cancelling the NBA over something that doesn't impact them negatively yet continued to be fans when other things occurred. For example, Karl malone slept with a 13 year old in college and basically abandoned the child that resulted from it, yet he still got drafted highly, nobody really stopped watching the utah jazz or the NBA over that. Jason Kidd plead guilty to a domestic abuse charge and he kept playing just got traded, nobody cancelled the nba over that. Yet when players exercise free speech about black people dying THEN its time to cancel and not watch. People will turn a blind eye to one thing and condone something else. But fine I'll ask you this, why did this make you not want to watch the NBA yet the comments players and coaches made about China didn't? I'll add that some players and coaches have actually apologized for the things they said as well. To me if you were truly a proponent for free speech I would 100% understand you not agreeing with what they are doing but still watching, but to completely stop watching something over things that won't harm you is very suspect to me. I'd think it was strange too if someone choose to stop watching NHL because the majority of the players don't kneel.
I think it’s kind of weird to compare someone who identifies with neo-marxism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism) to perpetuators of genocide, just like I wouldn’t compare someone who believes in Democratic Socialism with murderous South American dictators. Or someone who believes in Islam/Christianity with the fundamentalist/radical/extremist fringes of their religion.
If a sport primarily played by Black people having a lot of those Black people support a movement for Black Lives makes you find the NBA bear Unwatcheable when they don’t talk about it all that much on broadcast I need you just admit what you’re actual problem is instead of tip toeing lmao.
That's total facts. What I mean is that there's a false equivalency like a motherfucker between disregarding the BLM movement and all the good it's doing because of who it was founded by, while simultaneously praising the fortune and prosperity of America in spite of how it came into existence.
Exactly, people who support BLM should be smart enough to see through the NBA and that its obvious that it has nothing to do with their moral code, them backing BLM and not backing Hong Kong is purely financial.