01-19-2022, 08:41 PM
All of us are hypocritical. Let us start with that baseline. Else none of us are allowed to complain about any injustice because you look just below the surface into anyone’s lives and you will find examples to minimize anything they are saying and instead make them out to be the villains.
The China thing against LeBron was also used politically by the Republican Party. Yet they and their supporters stayed quiet to the news that Ivanka had many patents fast tracked by China and that our ex President also had assets in China. They stayed quiet to President Trump keeping quiet about Prince Salman murdering a US citizen while continuing to visit him and keep making deals.
My intent is not to say that Trump was a monster. Rather to point out that everyone has pet causes that they care about and others where they make certain compromises. Forget China. How many NBA players have come out against random anti Asian violence that these days are predominantly committed by Blacks? Some have voiced their dismay but it has been nowhere as vociferous and constant as it should be. These are our fellow US citizens being victimized and even people who mock the NBA stars about their stance on China rarely speak about this.
My biggest problem with Bron was not that he stayed silent about China but that he attacked Morey as ignorant. You want to keep silent. Fine. I get it. As I said all humans have some level of hypocrisy. At least let someone else express his viewpoints on that. Viewpoints that you know in your heart are correct. Bron more than anyone else should know how it feels when someone else asks one to shut up because they are uncomfortable with a given person’s opinion.
The China thing against LeBron was also used politically by the Republican Party. Yet they and their supporters stayed quiet to the news that Ivanka had many patents fast tracked by China and that our ex President also had assets in China. They stayed quiet to President Trump keeping quiet about Prince Salman murdering a US citizen while continuing to visit him and keep making deals.
My intent is not to say that Trump was a monster. Rather to point out that everyone has pet causes that they care about and others where they make certain compromises. Forget China. How many NBA players have come out against random anti Asian violence that these days are predominantly committed by Blacks? Some have voiced their dismay but it has been nowhere as vociferous and constant as it should be. These are our fellow US citizens being victimized and even people who mock the NBA stars about their stance on China rarely speak about this.
My biggest problem with Bron was not that he stayed silent about China but that he attacked Morey as ignorant. You want to keep silent. Fine. I get it. As I said all humans have some level of hypocrisy. At least let someone else express his viewpoints on that. Viewpoints that you know in your heart are correct. Bron more than anyone else should know how it feels when someone else asks one to shut up because they are uncomfortable with a given person’s opinion.
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