DeaconSig
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Can’t focus on one thing unless you focus on everything. It’s why All Lives Matter.
Hate Trump all you want but he was calling out China and the NBA a year ago:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/10/sport/popovich-donald-trump-kerr-nba-china-spt-intl/index.html
Exactly. Been calling out China his entire time. But the NBA can't get out of their own way on this one--this is where all the basketball millionaires are having all their own brands of shoes made by all the Chinese slaves! Bron needs to pay them reparations.
Are you aware of how much money Trump and his company owes the Chinese? Makes you wonder...
Trump's an asshole.
That does not excuse the blatant and unforgivable hypocrisy of the NBA and its defenders. Where is the Hong Kong matters or Free the Uighurs from concentration camps?
point noted, but are you trying to defend the NBA here, FYC?
literally no large corporation is speaking out or changing their behavior inre to china and their truly awful humanatrarian record. but now the "America First!" crowd suddenly turns into a bunch of global citizens who are so concerned with Hong Kong just so they can seize the opportunity to tell black people to shut up when voicing their concerns with social justice issues in America
capitalism trumps all in america, including the nba, and it is sad. but the bad faith here is just laughable
Samsung, hasbro and GoPro have significantly reduced their footprint to name a few.
More companies leaving China does not necessarily represent a win for American workers. Many companies that are moving some facilities out of China — including Samsung, Hasbro, Apple, Nintendo and GoPro — are relocating to countries where wages are even lower. While U.S. trade with China fell sharply last year, imports from Vietnam, Taiwan and Mexico swelled.
I'm not defending the whataboutism of the right and the Trump crowd, but I also think it cuts both ways
the NBA can try to be the league of wokeness with their performative jersey names, but if they want to do that (and I hope they do) then they ought to hold themselves to a higher standard