2021-2022 AROUND the NBA: GSW Champs [ARCHIVED]

[SleepingHero]

I mean, it's not reasonable to expect every person who speaks up about a particular issue to then make sure to mention all other wrongs currently in progress. BUT...if you refuse to weigh in because mentioning those particular people being abused in that particular country where you do business, because it's bad your for business...then you're doing what so many people have done in being quiet over the centuries about the injustice that you do care about.

Honestly it's hard to have a nuanced discourse on topics such as these over the internet, but I suppose I'll try. 

What you said here mainly hit the nail on the head for me as the crux of the issue. I find it disingenuous that these multi-millionaires that earn 6 figures PER GAME find it appropriate to lecture the country on all it's wrong doings, but are perfectly fine overlooking a horrible atrocity because it'll affect their bottom line.

It makes everything that they tried to stand for seem spurious and shallow last summer, and frankly turns me off of the NBA as a whole.

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As an American, I see no issue with focusing on American issues primarily. I do not agree with the idea that if you dont care about everyone's issues then you can not speak openly about your communities' issues. I do not see that same logic get applied to other tragedies, "if you do not care about every terrorist attack, then you cant complain when America gets attacked" is pretty flawed logic imo

I think you're missing the fact that the NBA is directly partnered with China, and their relationship alone generates hundreds of millions of dollars for the NBA every year. 

That's why this is hypocritical. One of the NBA's biggest partners is directly engaging in concentration camps of an underrepresented minority in China, and the league that has gone out of it's way to brand itself as "for the people" and "woke" has turned a blind eye.

If the NBA wasn't directly benefiting off of this, then yeah, sure, focus on American issues if you really want. That's your choice.