International Fascists buy sneakers too

[Tairy Hesticles]

I honestly find it amazing how you guys keep repeating this dumb argument.

When did the Uyghurs move to the United States? Why would Lebron be informed on the politics and issues of ethnic minorities in another country?

The idea that if you criticize injustices done in YOUR OWN country to other people IN YOUR country, that that means you must also find and criticize injustices around the word is some of the dumbest shit I see on this topic.
Obviously, people are going to know and care more about shit that is happening in their own backyard.

You're right, Americans should have never cared about the holocaust. It just wasn't the responsibility of people outside of Germany to care about something awful happening to people in Germany.

Nobody is asking Lebron to be an activist for people in China. What people are doing is pointing out that he's a hypocrite for propping himself up as a civil rights leader all while staying silent about obvious genocide. Do the lives of the Uyghers matter so little to Lebron that he can't do 30 seconds of research? He made over $1 billion in China - he has an enormous impact on the lives of the people in China whether he wants to admit that or not. He will tell people in America that silence is violence and then say nothing about people suffering in a country that he has massive financial ties in. And you're defending him because they aren't American.

What's funny is that I'd be willing to guess that you despise nationalism, but will argue that Americans shouldn't have to worry about genocide if it happens somewhere else.

 

[Tairy Hesticles]

Vast majority of Americans don't know shit about CCP human rights. Why would you expect LeBron to be any different?

Because he has $1 billion in business interests tied up in a company famous for using child labor, in a country famous for enslaving a race of people, all while telling people that he is passionate about equality and a pillar of the global community. That's why.

 

[Tairy Hesticles]

My point isn't to defend LeBron, because I think he should have defended the coach, rather than trying to placate the CCP. My point is that if LeBron was pushing conservative viewpoints, he wouldn't be receiving flak from the right.

More than a year or so ago, when Breitbart and Alt Right bloggers posted news on what the CCP is doing to the Uyghurs, it was not uncommon for commenters to say the Chinese know how to deal with Muslims. Even here, there were 1 or 2 rightwingers who didn't have a problem with China stomping on the Uyghurs. All this has changed over the past year and a half, with it now being rare to find rightwingers lauding the CCP for oppressing the Uyrghurs

It's not just right wingers that are calling out Lebron for his bullshit. I'm not a right winger or a conservative, I just know horse shit when I smell it.

 

[MicroBrew]

It's not just right wingers that are calling out Lebron for his bullshit. I'm not a right winger or a conservative, I just know horse shit when I smell it.

And I am not saying he shouldn't be called out. I am saying he is a small/mid tier fish , with the big fish being Nike , the NBA & the team owners. I am saying the reason the righwing focus on him is because he is vocal in supporting BLM.

 

[Tairy Hesticles]

And I am not saying he shouldn't be called out. I am saying he is a small/mid tier fish , with the big fish being Nike , the NBA & the team owners. I am saying the reason the righwing focus on him is because he is vocal in supporting BLM.

You're half right. I think that, for most people, it's not that Lebron supports BLM, it's because he's one of the more vocal celebrities regarding racial injustice and inequality. He's the same guy who told people that he would never shut up and dribble, and that he would use his giant platform to bring awareness to racial injustice. I can get behind that. But when he gets asked about the horrifying racial treatment of minorities in a country where he makes a large portion of his net worth, he goes right back to shutting up and dribbling.

I'm sure there are a ton of right wing puds that attack him just because he has different political views than them, but there are also a ton of non right wing people that see this as a coward grandstanding as a hero.

 

[ocfightfan]

The fascists were communists as were the nazis who were also far left liberals.

True.