11-19-2021, 02:08 PM
(11-19-2021, 01:40 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: 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.
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.
Thats a fair point with pointing out how the NBA/Nike turns a blind eye towards the atrocities that China is committing. But my issue is more of the grandstanding that is being done like all those complaining are equally championing all of these causes. Kanter had a pro-Isreal post not that long ago, does his concerns extend to Palestinians?