https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-nba-prostitutes-itself-for-the-politburo/
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One person who seems positively nonplussed about this situation is the NBA’s deputy commissioner and COO, Mark Tatum, who comes across in the report as a desiccated ruin of a human being. This is not to say that the authors describe him as such; they merely relay his own words, which are more than enough to paint a picture of his character. “When pressed,” Fainaru and Fainaru-Wada write, “Tatum declined to say whether human rights were a factor” in the closure of the Xinjiang academy. And when he was willing to speak about what the league has done in China, he did so in disgustingly euphemistic terms. “We do need to have more direct oversight and the ability to make staffing changes when appropriate,” he said. That’s corporate-speak for “maybe we should try to hire some Chinese coaches who won’t beat the living daylights out of children, but we’ll have to see if the commies allow us to.” Elsewhere in the story, one of the NBA’s ex-coaches said it better: “Imagine you have a kid who’s 13, 14 years old, and you’ve got a grown coach who is 40 years old hitting your kid. We’re part of that. The NBA is part of that.” But when the reporters presented Tatum with this information, he pleaded the same lack of expertise in matters of elementary morality that NBA players did last year when confronted with similar inconvenient truths:
"My job, our job is not to take a position on every single human rights violation, and I’m not an expert in every human rights situation or violation. I’ll tell you what the NBA stands for: The values of the NBA are about respect, are about inclusion, are about diversity. That is what we stand for."
The NBA cannot say whether the concentration camps holding Uyghur mulsims, which undoubtedly contain some former attendees of their basketball camps, are bad, and they explicitly do not feel the need to comment on the human rights abuses committed by the government from which they hope to glean billions of dollars. But it IS their job to put "Black Lives Matter" on their basketball courts.
You aren't upset because aren't speaking out against Chinese atrocities. You can't care less about the plight of Muslims. They aren't worth the dirt under your Florsheim laced shoes. You have no affinity for them.
You are mad because they dare to speak out against what they consider to be American atrocities.
How dare those black guys speak out against things affecting the communities in which they once lived? Who in the hell do they think they are?
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