Why aren’t you so damn tired of seeing black people killed by black people? That’s 93% of all black murders. You tried to dox an officer who saved an innocent black woman. Because he’s white. Pathetic. And embarrassing for you. Open invite on @outkick to talk real facts & data.
You’ll notice that woke athletes like LeBron never actually engage with facts or data. And the sports media all protect them from ever having to answer any questions about their ignorance on these issues. Sports media doesn’t speak truth to power, they ball wash.
What LeBron and his woke sports brethren either don’t realize or refuse to acknowledge is the more they demonize police the more black people are murdered. Because the vast majority of police are working hard every day to save black, white, Asian and Hispanic lives.
If we eliminated every police shooting of black people — justified or unjustified and most are justified — 99% of black murders would still be happening. Blaming police for the black murder rate is like a 1,000 pound person focusing on their thumb being too fat.
The small minority of police who break the law should be prosecuted. But athletes pretending police are the issue is so nonsensical, illogical, & rooted in such a bad faith argument that every member of the sports media who has allowed it to occur should be ashamed. It’s pathetic
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So @nytimes has a front page article about Monday’s NYC attack on an elderly Asian woman. The video has since gone viral. The race of the perpetrator isn’t mentioned in the entire article. (He’s black). If a white man had conducted the beating it would have led the story.
Yesterday NYC police were asking for help in locating the suspect. The article actually mentions this, BUT DOESN’T DESCRIBE THE SUSPECT. The paper actively chose not to describe the man wanted for a hate crime despite the fact that NYC police were seeking help from the public.
How does this happen? I can’t imagine a front page story with FOUR BYLINED WRITERS just forgot to mention the race of the suspect or share his identifying details as NYC police had requested. This is shameful & pathetic journalism @nytimes. It’s not the truth, it’s your agenda.
The two most liked current athletes in American sports are Tiger Woods & Patrick Mahomes. You can debate which is first and which is second. But there is not a remotely close third in the conversation right now.
Michael Jordan isn’t a current athlete, but I still think he is by far the most liked living American athlete. Just thinking about this in the wake of all the PGA players wearing red & black today for Tiger.
Lots of you will mention Tom Brady, but Brady is still very polarizing for many NFL fans. Steph is more popular than LeBron in the NBA, but with Warriors mediocrity he’s fallen off the radar. LeBron has stans, but I actually think he’s disliked by more than like him.
Big tech companies all simultaneously reaching exact same decisions when it comes to banning individuals & businesses demands antitrust action. It’s monopolistic collusion, yes, but it also destroys marketplace of ideas & is a far bigger threat to the country than any individual.
The Chinese government restricts free speech on the internet, but big tech companies in the US are now so powerful — and colluding — that they have created monopolies which dictate which online speech is allowed. It should terrify anyone who cares about the marketplace of ideas.
In other words, the first amendment jurisprudence of the United States is predicated on the government not prohibiting speech. But the Internet has created such powerful companies that their power to restrict speech is now more all encompassing than the US government’s.
The Chinese government is allowed to brag & propagandize about how it’s treating Muslim women in its concentration camps on this platform, but the president of the United States isn’t allowed to Tweet. It’s insanity.
If you’re going to censor the democratically elected president of the United States, shouldn’t communist dictatorships at least have to not brag about their concentration camps?
This is the problem, btw, with any entity attempting to implement speech standards. It’s virtually impossible to do on a content neutral basis. But if you’re going to do it, it probably makes the most sense to start with keeping communist dictatorships from spreading lies.
The NBA players are effectively locking themselves out of their own jobs while demanding an action that their business has no control over. I don’t see how this boycott/strike/lockout ends. The NBA can’t address any demands with the players or institute any additional changes.
I suppose if charges are brought in Kenosha the NBA players could declare victory and return to games, but they have no control over whether charges are brought. And they don’t even know all the facts in that case. None of us do.
I suspect LeBron — and some other older players — will want to finish the season. But the interesting angle here is the woke NBA LeBron created has now passed him by. I’m not sure how much the younger players will listen to him. He might be outwoked by them.