The NBA speaks out on the Rittenhouse miscarriage of justice

[RAB910]

[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Joinfortmill]

2. 👍

[Casady1]

3. The NBA

is the best. Crickets from the MLB and the NFL as usual.

[phandancer917]

4. The same NBA....

.....that ignores human rights violations and geneflects to China in order to make money?



Good for them on this statement....but they are not without blind spots

[manicdem]

7. I don't trust them

NBA just goes to the side with the money like China.

[cadoman]

8. exactly, there's no moral component to this with the leagues

They run the internal demographic polling and correlate it with the revenue demographics and go from there.

NBA determined that portraying the verdict as an endorsement of vigilantism rather than self defense yielded the most profit. NFL and NBA determined that ignoring it entirely was best for their profits.

NBA also determined that going along with the wishes of the Chinese government is good for their future profit there.

[LastDemocratInSC]

11. I don't follow pro basketball.

What's the linkage between the NBA and China?

[cadoman]

12. they view it as their next big market and go out of their way to accommodate the CCP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_in_China

[LastDemocratInSC]

13. Thank you for clarifying.

After posting the message last night I started thinking about what the NBA does - primarily advocating for and promoting basketball - and came to the same conclusion.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Thank you NBA! Others??

[Rural_Progressive]

6. Might not hurt at this time to remind ourselves

that institutions are simply frameworks. The messages that come out of those frameworks are coming from the actual people who currently hold a position in the institutions. Sometimes sane people are controlling the message, sometimes less than sane people, but always it's people.

Institutions don't actually text, tweet, message, release statements, or appear on talk shows.

[Wild blueberry]

9. Very good

Thank you

[rockfordfile]

10. I agree

[pecosbob]

15. Well, as long as the NBA opposes vigilantism I guess that it's okay they support genocide?