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US envoy Sam Brownback: NBA is 'coming around' to oppose China's human rights abuses
Posted on 8/3/20 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 2:17 pm
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Billions of dollars makes strange bedfellows
Billions of dollars makes strange bedfellows
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NBA officials and teams are “coming around” to recognizing the human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party, according to the State Department’s lead official for religious liberty. “The NBA is making some proper steps,” Ambassador Sam Brownback told the Washington Examiner. “I didn’t like some of their early steps, but these things take time in a democratic country.” That’s a gentler tone than NBA officials have learned to expect from Republican lawmakers and officials in recent months, as the league has become a political lightning rod by embracing the Black Lives Matter movement while flinching from condemning the repression of the Chinese Communist Party. Last month, the league announced that it had severed ties with basketball academies in Xinjiang, the region where Beijing has established “reeducation camps” for Uighur Muslims on a scale that has drawn comparisons to the Holocaust. “They’re coming around,” Brownback said. “This isn’t unusual in a democratic system, where you have lots of independent actors, for it to take a little time for people to kinda convince themselves of what the right course of action is."
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Posted on 8/3/20 at 2:19 pm to RedRifle
Progress is progress. Sometimes it is slow. Sometimes it is fast.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 2:22 pm to RedRifle
Yea right
They’ll just get all these out there so we think they do something
But eventually they really won’t
They’ll just get all these out there so we think they do something
But eventually they really won’t
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:24 pm to RedRifle
Sam got some under the table cash for that statement
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:25 pm to RedRifle
Lebron about to start his own league
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:30 pm to jlovel7
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Progress is progress. Sometimes it is slow. Sometimes it is fast.
sometimes it's full of shite.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:57 pm to RedRifle
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but these things take time in a democratic country.
well not having a dictator/league commissioner telling you what you're allowed to say and think slows down the process.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 6:38 pm to RedRifle
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where you have lots of independent actors, for it to take a little time for people to kinda convince themselves of what the right course of action is."
I want nothing to do with people who have to convince themselves that what the Chinese are doing to the Uighurs is bad.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 6:44 pm to RedRifle
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NBA officials and teams are “coming around” to recognizing the human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party
LOL
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:09 pm to SeeeeK
Leftists hate fascism unless it’s oppressive communism, then they like it.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:25 pm to BregmansWheelbarrow
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Leftists hate fascism unless it pays them, then they like it
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:28 pm to RedRifle
I am sure there is a growing list of tweets and statements from the NBA and its employees/players about the topic
Since you know he said they are coming around and "making proper steps".
Go on. Show us the proper steps they have absolutely made as you have said.
Since you know he said they are coming around and "making proper steps".
Go on. Show us the proper steps they have absolutely made as you have said.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:30 pm to RedRifle
Daryl Moray for NBA commmish
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:36 pm to RedRifle
What pieces of shite
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:43 pm to NastyTiger
Too little too late. Phuck em all
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:55 pm to RedRifle
Wonder if they want to “keep the conversation going “? Most likely, they want to sweep it under the rug.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:31 am to RedRifle
Assuming they continue to progress along that path, then I have to at least give them props for trying to be consistent in their human rights stance. Can't say the same for all of their players, but it's something.
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