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| Chinese Chequers and Other Spectator Games |
| 2019-10-18 |
| h/t Instapundit [ChicagoBoyz] The irony of very well-recompensed nominally-American basketball players of color reacting with wild indignation to American criticism of China with regard to heavy-handed treatment of citizens of Tibet and residents of Hong Kong is of a density so thick and heavy that it threatens to drop through the core of the earth and come out the other side. This of course, after months of rather public displays by professional athletes of color making a big thing of knee-taking and demonstrations of disapproval during the playing of the American national anthem at the start of various games. This cheap display of woke-virtue sporting world division may already have sunk the National Football League, in the minds and hearts of those fans of football in Flyoverlandia-America. I suppose now we can look forward to seeing the same fatal holed-below-the-waterline-and-sinking-fast pattern in the round-bouncy-ball franchise; honestly, it’s as if the NBA is basically saying, "Hold my beer and watch this!" ...That China in general, or China as a consumer seems to exercise so much economic power over American pop-culture generally is a matter to give one pause. Perhaps it's time to curve-stomp pop culture? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 ^ Snuble for the gold. Wish that could be printed and put into a million fortune cookies. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-18 08:55 |
| #3 Confucius say, "Man who feel teeny Should eat every animal's weenie, But he who drink tea Made from ballplayer's knee Soon have backbone like piece of linguine." |
| Posted by: Snumble Phosh3957 2019-10-18 08:45 |
| #2 😢 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-18 07:58 |
| #1 Curb stomp. It's because to them the American people are The Other. Everyone else in the world is in their ingroup. Even if they don't reciprocate. Far from being a contradiction, this is an entirely consistent worldview. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-10-18 07:11 |