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It should be noted that the NBA is only woke with respect to the US, with China there’s no politics or social justice.
by Google234 6y ago
It should be noted that the NBA is only woke with respect to the US, with China there’s no politics or social justice.
- bopbeepboop 6y agoWhich is particularly galling: LeBron et al talk about how they won’t back down confronting wrongs! — except for China, who is actually racist and actually abusing human rights, right now. He shut up, sat down about that and read the script like he was told. It’s beating your wife because you’re scared to confront real issues — and I don’t respect that behavior from pampered circus acts.
- Google4567 6y agoLebron James, a black man in America, spoke out on issues affecting black men in America. He did not speak out on issues in China, nor does he speak out on issues affecting the First Nations in Canada, the Native Americans in America, the Aboriginals in Australia, and neither did he protest injustices in Africa, Europe nor the Middle East. Terrible behavior indeed not shouldering every injustice in the world.
- KlinkEastwood 6y agoFunny how it works. Black people's struggle is always my people's struggle, but it's never the other way around. Injustice toward black people anywhere is injustice everywhere, but it's never that way when it's not black people. they don't have principals, they have a shallow and myopic self interest. and you are wrong - he did speak out on issues in china, he said shut the hell up about it because they will stop buying my shoes if you don't shut up. for all the good he does, when it comes down to it, when his bottom line is marginally affected he is a coward just like everyone pimping out wokeness to sell garbage.
- bopbeepboop 6y agoYep, and a man should focus on discipline in his house instead of confront the injustice of the world — that’s why he beats his wife instead of confronting real problems. LeBron happily accepts Chinese money for his work to be aired in the Chinese market: focusing his criticism on the less problematic customer is exactly what I’m calling out. China pays money he wants, and will stop if he talks, so he doesn’t talk about it — because he’s a cheap hypocrite. More than that, your portrayal of him not speaking on those issues is plain false: he was happy to discuss Hong Kong. He just doesn’t speak about issues in China which would negatively finically impact him. How do you think black people are treated in China? My hunch is “not well” based on how they hid Finn on the Star Wars poster. Why doesn’t LeBron talk about the treatment of blacks in China, where the NBA also airs? LeBron runs his mouth, but he sits down and shuts up for a check. He knows that China is racist against him and treats him like a trained dog, telling him to sit or speak on command — and he does it. So he lashes out at other people about the fact even though he’s an overpaid circus performer, he’ll always be a bitch like that.
- Google4567 6y agoChina really living rent free in your head, huh? How long have you been at war with Eastasia? Just say it out loud, you hate black people and you hate China, so it stains every other thought you have.
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- kerng 6y agoYes, but the point is that he should speak up, because he is in a position of power to help change things.