please, for the love of all that is good, cut this out
Populations do not = “communities”
There is no “Black community,” there are countless “Black communities”
When the Atlanta massacre happened, people kept saying “Asian American community,” like a tic.
“Asian American” itself, could usually stand for more disaggregation/specifity — and now y’all are throwing a flattening “community” on top of it
*specificity, but God knows my heart
“Community” flattens more than it illuminates, and it allows people to weigh in bc they are from the ostensible “community” even if they are not at all be part of the cohort affected by whatever issue being discussed
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Was listening to Sam Anderson and Zach Lowe talk about how we’ve never seen KD — easily one of the most talented players ever — have to really enter the Avatar State in his career. He’s never had to go full Harden, touch-the-ball every possession.
We might be about to, though.
My next door neighbor is a DC dude who played professionally overseas. We were having this long convo the other day about how hard it is to place KD (who he coached against in AAU).
He might be the most complete player ever, but no one considers him the greatest. It’s weird.
He’s never had to be, like, full tilt every night except for one stretch when Russ was out.
we’ve seen Bron have to do it and Steph have to do it and Harden have to do it. It’s not ideal — it usually means something has gone wrong — but KD hasnt.
Steph is obviously a tremendously skilled shooter, but a good deal of what makes him deadly is his reaction time and spatial awareness. It’s not run-jump athleticism, but it’s also not “teachable” either.
Also, like... we associate good shot-blocking with vertical leaps but most of the best are constantly timing their jumps and watching angles. Tim Duncan is a great example.
It’s a lot more skill-based than we appreciate.
(Timmy — especially young Timmy — was more athletic than he gets credit for. But there’s a reason that he was an all-time great shotblocker and Amare, who was a complete athletic freak, was just a passable defender.)
2.) maybe more people should have been skeptical of the so-called “reckoning.” @pikachudy said that public opinion polling of whites people on issues of race show that only about 1 in 5 white people consistently express some degree of distress at news of Black suffering.
(That data suggests it was unlikely that suddenly solid majorities of white ppl — 60 percent and higher, depending on the polls — had suddenly permanently moved into that “racially sympathetic” cohort after the killings of a George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.)