I mean in the most cynical of ways. Heâs not wrong, heâs absolutely speaking for the silent majority. Just a bitter hard truth. We as Americans as a whole donât care that much, I mean we care enough to say itâs wrong, maybe some virtue signaling on social media. Itâs all caring in the abstract, but deep in souls people of all walks of life and beliefs donât care. Politicians want to be mad s China and issue high level statements but certainly donât want to be burned for the economic upheaval of punishing China.
The Uighurs qualify for the Ambivalence Freedom Package
Yes the same approach was taken about Jews in Europe. The only difference if that we had a much bigger Jewish population in America that emigrated âearlyâ to escape the nazis. How many Uyghurs live in America? We have a choice to either boycott this chinese dictatorship or we do not.
This nba owner tell us how he feels about it. We have every right to tell him how we feel about his franchise.
Yeah and we didnât care about the Jews until the end of the war and got there. Itâs almost line the ending the Holocaust was written in at the bottom of"war aims" to make ourselves feel better.
But on this guy, Iâm not going to lose it over him telling a a hurtful truth. That basically no one cares, because heâs right. For 85% of all America if you or I told them that getting the Uighurs to work harder in the camps would lower prices and solve silly chain issues and get them there Amazon stuff faster thatâs be the first ones cracking the whip.
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It is your opinion. Apartheid is another good example. the West did put pressure and finally South Africa opened up. The difference here is that we are witnessing a communist dictatorship acting as they please.
The question is do we have a choice to put pressure on the nba to condemn such racist actions. Furthermore we have the choice to prohibit the nba from playing in the chinese dictatorship. Sports teams in the past were barred from playing in South Africa or Cuba.
If you watch the interview, later on the owner starts to back track a little.
He says he simply feels that if bigger organizations or institutions who are more equipped to confront China about it and make it a priority, then he, like a lot of other people who are indifferent, would be more inclined to do or say something.
But, he argues, NATO, the United Nations, and even the US has not taken tangible actions to address it, no policies, no penalties, nothing to show we really care about the issue. Oh, we arenât sending people to the OlympicsâŠ. That will show ChinaâŠ
The NBA will not do anything to hurt their golden Chinese goose. They proved that with Daryl Morey
Unfortunately for the Uyghurs they do not hold any political, voting, public opinion or economic power. So nobody will care to do anything other than say a few nice words. Thatâs how the world works, unfortunately.
Exactly, just the ugly truth. Then people get mad when the ugly truth gets told to them. Which is whatâs happening here
That is why I refuse to watch the NBA. By catering to the ccp dictatorship they are an accomplice to this genocide.
They/we have a choice to do business with them.
What is the definition of bloody/dirty money?
He comes from Sri Lanka which is an absolute disaster and has the nerve to tell us we need to worry about our issues before we fix someone else.
Why didnât he help fix Sri Lankaâs sh___ before he cross-docked through Canada and came to tell us to fix shâ?!
Fâ him.
Thatâs some sweet shooting of the messenger right there. Itâs all the truth nobody cares in a meaningful way, if people cared something would be done about it, there be mass boycotts, protests, high level actions, all that but there isnât, and there probably wonât be.
And besides itâs not his job to take care of Sri Lanka itâs one of the worst arguments of bad arguments. Do better youâre not a dumb person donât make dumb arguments.
I think that if the media made efforts to cover it, there probably would be. It is something that they are choosing not to cover.
Why are you calling someone dumb? Whatâs the point? Do you want to be called dumb?
You mentioned nobody cares. That is your opinion. Case in point I opened up this thread. The backlash from his comments are all over sports media. How quick did the nba/warriors respond? They did so precisely because of the backlash. Do you think the nba is happy about it?
yup, and sometimes you wonder if its not covered because it wont be a popular enough story to sell adâs or if friends and relationships are involved in a story not coming out.
Sounds like a BIG concerted conspiracy among dozens of news organizations all over. âCatch and Killâ industry wide ? Not buying it.
Wait a minute.
There is a genocide happening due to the chinese dictatorship. This is not an invention. We boycotted the Moscow Olympics in response to the oppressive Soviet regime. The ccp is not a free republic. It is a dictatorship with daily deadly consequences. The nba has a choice. They choose to âalignâ themselves with the chinese dictatorship responsible for this genocide. They did not have to. Solar panels are mostly made by the Uyghurs. A friend of mine in the solar industry told me that his company used to have an American factory. The Uyghurs solar panels that first appeared on the world market was product dumping. His factory could not compete with product dumping. They now have no choice but to import Uyghurs made solar panels.
First⊠Didnât call anyone dumb called the argument of âHeâs from Sri Lanka he should fix Sri Lanka!â Dumb. Fully reading instead of looking at words wouldâve been useful here.
Yeah Iâm aware of the performative apologies and the need to shoot a messenger. Perhaps they can also change their social media profile pictures to show how very serious they are. Theyâre doing the smart thing as it was put in Futurama, âWhat do we do when we break a window? Pay for it? Oh heavenâs no, we apologize with nice cheap words.â Words are cheap, wake me up when someone actually does something substantive.
On the media, it exists to sell itself, if there was a real demand for coverage their would be coverage. If it had been determined that the Uighurs plight is not profitable it wonât be up there. Now a foreign migrant criticizing the US and our the citizenry thatâs an easy click, view, etc.
But Bryant I could care less if the media speaks about it or not. We all know that the media is owned by huge conglomerate that do business in the chinese dictatorship. Remember when the previous stinky rodent C.E.O. said that China is not ruled by a dictatorship. He also had one of his movies (canât remember the name) shot where the Uyghurs concentration camps are located. The nba choose their side. The nazis controlled the media in the 30âs. how did that turn out?
I donât know whatâs happening (being suppressed or not) and I really donât care to be honest. But news stories being suppressed or influenced by relationships is nothing new. It does exist. Especially when advertising money is involved.