re: First time in NBA history there will be no white players participating in ASG

Klay Thompson will only give 50% effort in protest

Eh, I don't care.

#ASGSONONWHITE

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Alt26

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Congratulations, you've officially written these dumbest post I've ever seen on this board.

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First time in NBA history there will be no white players participating in ASG

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Triggered [ON] OFF

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When I read the OP, the first thing that came to mind was that obviously there were no deserving white players. I never once thought that white players should have equal representation or that there is something amiss since we're such a large percentage of the population yet no one made the roster. I believe that thought process points out how different cultures are conditioned to view race and discrimination. I'm not going to imply that all whites see it this way, nor would I ever say that all minorities are looking to play the race card, but it is intriguing nonetheless. If you learn to take away race as the first differentiating factor, you can often get to the heart of the problem - in this instance, white players weren't good enough. It is so lazy and frankly dangerous to point to race and stop there when dissecting merit based awards and recognition

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There's certain some truth to this statement.

I think a talking point on that is, generally speaking, is when white people use their own sensibilities and then seem to not having any understanding whatsoever as to why "other cultures" may process things differently.

There's fault on both sides, obviously.

#thugs

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think a talking point on that is, generally speaking, is when white people use their own sensibilities and then seem to not having any understanding whatsoever as to why "other cultures" may process things differently

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Processing things differently is fine, but I'd like to think people could agree that race is such a lazy way to excuse why things are the way they are.

For example, there is a high correlation between race and education level completed. If you stopped right there you'd fail to see that there is an even higher correlation between socioeconomic status and education completed. Obviously education is a more complex issue than basketball or acting, but my point remains.

I'm not going to get into white privilege because I think alot of that stuff is ridiculous, but I can say I consider myself blessed to have been raised in such a way that I look inward for what went wrong rather than outward for someone to blame. That approach manifest itself even with something as trivial as the OP - my first inclination is that white players should have performed better, not that deserving white players were overlooked for black players.

That approach isn't exclusive to white people by any means, but outside of a few sarcastic comments, the lack of any outrage over this provides some anecdotal evidence that most people see this as a merit issue, not a race issue. I'd like to think that could become a more universal approach to things like this.

tl;Dr - Downvoting myself for being this serious on the MSB.

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the lack of any outrage over this provides some anecdotal evidence that most people see this as a merit issue, not a race issue. I'd like to think that could become a more universal approach to things like this.

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exactly. because it is a merit issue, not a race issue. just like the fact that there aren't enough black quarterbacks or whatever (pick any of these types of debates) was a merit issue and not a race issue. the problem comes when idiots don't see it that way.

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the problem comes when idiots don't see it that way.

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And also when other things pop up in society that are racial issues and the other side ignores and it says it's not, right?