Try Taking A Knee

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The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.
 
A former league employee compared the atmosphere when he worked in Xinjiang to “World War II Germany.”
 
In an interview with ESPN about its findings, NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer Mark Tatum, who oversees international operations, said the NBA is “reevaluating” and “considering other opportunities” for the academy program, which operates out of sports facilities run by the Chinese government. Last week, the league acknowledged for the first time it had closed the Xinjiang academy, but, when pressed, Tatum declined to say whether human rights were a factor. […]
 
The program, launched in 2016, is part of the NBA’s strategy to develop local players in a basketball-obsessed market that has made NBA China a $5 billion enterprise. Most of the former employees spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared damaging their chances for future employment. NBA officials asked current and former employees not to speak with ESPN for this story. In an email to one former coach, a public relations official added: “Please don’t mention that you have been advised by the NBA not to respond.”

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31 Replies to “Try Taking A Knee”

  1. But there’s one glimmer of encouraging light “a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps.” They’re not in the West killing people in Orlando nightclubs while the Chinese have any say…. good job Xi.

    1. Many would not like your saying that but sometimes the truth can be painful and ugly.

    2. From Lord of War:
      Yuri:
      But in the Iran-Iraq War, you sold guns to both sides.

      Simeon Weisz:
      Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?

      Add in the NBA as well, and I want all three to lose.

  2. Maintaining prisons for religious beliefs is not a conservative value.

    I cannot praise the ccp for anything they have done.

    At least someone from the nba recognizes a police state.

  3. “Maintaining prisons for religious beliefs is not a conservative value.”
    Correct. Now note that the religious beliefs you speak of are enumerated in their holy book and life instruction manual, the Koran and Haddith, they order muslims to murder you at the first opportunity….. and some do.
    The most remarkable fact in 21st century Canada is that these people are imported as immigrants never having renounced their core belief that we should be slaughtered by their good muslim selves.
    Fascinating….. the extreme self loathing that allows this immigration policy is beyond rational understanding.

    1. “Maintaining prisons for religious beliefs is not a conservative value.”
      ‐‐‐—-
      Real conservative values also entail “homogeneous societies” with shared values. Something that conservatives (in name only) such as Mulroney & Harper #LibCons ignored while accepting 1/4 million new citizens yearly from weird places.

    2. willy, you leave out the fact that Islam, Kristianity, and Judaism are all Abrahamic religions, and they are many similarities in all three religions. The kristian shit I was taught in religious school would NOT pass muster today. And don’t forget the witch burning, so killing those who do not fit is not just a Islamic tenant!

      1. “And don’t forget the witch burning”

        Nothing to do with religion. It was the in vogue treatment for mental illness. And during the Thirty Years War, it was political.

      2. Islam is not an Abrahamic religion. It is a bastardized, plagiarized version of some of the Torah and some of the Bible. Some people are even dumb enough to believe that an illiterate Mohammed wrote the Koran before he died in 632 AD, just a wee bit after Abraham, Moses and all the other ancient Hebrews. I realize that understanding the teachings of Christ is one of your personal failures but those who burned people as witches who called themselves christians sure were not. They are of the so called christians of which Christ would say, I never knew you. There are many of them.

      3. 666, you ignorant slut, the first two letters in Christianity come from the Greek letter Chi. Greek was the “learned” language when the Bible was written. It has nothing to do with the Germanic K. St. Paul knew Greek, but I doubt if German was even a written language then. Misspelling it thusly, in English, shows nothing except your own ignorance. It is interesting you don’t choose to do anything snarky with the word Islam, showing you have a deeper hatred for Christianity, despite what the two different religions have done in the real world today. Yes, slaughtering thousands is less of a sin, to you, than forcing your almighty self to attend a, gasp, religious school.
        Just out of idle curiosity, exactly which religious school did you attend, and what did it teach you that “would NOT (sic) pass muster today”?
        Besides, as usual, you miss the point entirely in your zest for religious persecution. Religious persecution by Muslims may be a salient point, but not of this article. The point of this article is religious persecution done to Muslims by the Chicom, an entirely different subject, on which you probably approve. How better to please you than equal opportunity persecution of all religions?

    3. +++ Bill. I have been saying this for over twenty years yet the terminally stupid always think I am wrong no matter how many thousands have been killed by the mandatory jihad.

  4. In China you don’t take a knee, they put you on your knees.
    Belly-aching Blacks (you have to capitalize it now, mofo) in the NBA taking a knee who don’t know that about China, but want all that TV revenue to top up homey’s account need some corporal punishment reality.

  5. When asked about this issue, Lebron James proceeded to stick his head up his ass and declined comment.

  6. Folks if you had noticed: I said:

    {I cannot praise the ccp for anything they have done. }

    Small c conservative values do not require homogeneous societies. Convince me I’m wrong.

    conservative societies do put violent criminals in prison and we are allowed to defend ourselves, from the violence and from state violence.

    What should exist, does not exist and this society or china’s is not one to draw from when deciding the right thing to do.

        1. Thanks for the honorable mention. Anyone notice that we now must use American spelling of English words or the computer underlines it as an incorrect spelling.

          1. Yup OWG, I noticed from the beginning, but it’s a small price for the chance to post with like minded folk.

          2. Haven’t spelled center with an ‘re’ in decades. My drawings were always stamped anyway!
            And as I said previously on SDA, I quit hockey after that crap at center-ice a few nites ago!

  7. It’s not called kneeling in China. Emperor Xi demands they kowtow. Stupid NBA officials should learn some culturally appropriate behaviour.

  8. NBA suddenly has an ethical problem with China. How did that happen? Oh yeah, they have a vampire as their league commissioner.

  9. National Post in its full comment section, is posting parts of a new book warning democracies about the hidden hand of China.

  10. “American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang”

    I’m sure it’s nothing that a bit of coaching from the Chretien and Desmarais families couldn’t fix.

  11. I would recommend you get Ezra Levant’s book “Virus” to read how Canada and the Liberals are working hard to make Canada into a Chinese province. What do people think Trudeau meant when he said he admired China’s basic dictatorship?

    1. ” What do people think ..”

      The problem is, they don’t, David.

      Yes. I’ll get Ezra’s book. Claws of the Panda by Jonathan Manthorpe is another good one

  12. Looking at the timeline on a lot of this stuff and realizing that a lot of it was kicked off by the dust-up over Morey’s tweet all the way back in October, I have to wonder how long ESPN has been sitting on this story. ESPN is as woke as anybody and they’re not about to say anything the Chinese money-addicted Mouse doesn’t approve of, so where’s this criticism coming from and why do they suddenly have the backbone to repeat it? Has ESPN, Disney, and the NBA suddenly realized they have a problem on their hands and suddenly they decided it might be time to start back-pedaling on their love of all things China?

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