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Posted: 10/21/2021 2:57:46 PM EDT
How long until the NBA suspends him?
Link The NBA's Chinese broadcast partner abruptly erased Boston Celtics highlights and live streams from its website and app on Thursday, not long after Celtics center Enes Kanter called China's leader, Xi Jinping, a "brutal dictator." Kanter, in multiple social media posts Wednesday, spoke out against "cultural genocide" in Tibet, an autonomous region to the west of China where the Chinese government has cracked down on freedoms and exerted control. The swift response of Tencent, a Chinese internet technology company that in 2019 agreed to a five-year, $1.5 billion expansion of its partnership with the NBA, is reminiscent of the early stages of China's response to Daryl Morey's 2019 tweet in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Morey's words led to an international firestorm, a brief NBA blackout in China and simmering tensions between the league and a country where it boasts millions of fan. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and other executives moved to quell those tensions. Silver later estimated that the dispute would cost the NBA hundreds of millions of dollars, but the relationship has since improved. China's various crackdowns on human rights, though, have continued. Among the many alleged abuses are in Tibet. Kanter, who is Turkish, decried them in a minutes-long video and follow-up tweet.
Update. He's calling out Lebron now. "Money over Morals for the 'King'," Kanter tweeted Thursday, showing off shoes featuring China's President Xi crowning LeBron. "Sad and disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justice. They really do 'shut up and dribble' when Big Boss [China] says so," Kanter continued. "Did you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes or is that not part of your research?" Kanter asks LeBron.
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How long until he is reading an apology in Chinese to keep his job?
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A literal Nazi-esque genocide is happening right now, complete with concentration camps, and the world yawns.
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Call Trump a Dictator/Despot and you get praise.
Call Winnie the Poo a Dictator/Despot and suddenly it's an issue. |
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Quoted: Quoted: How long until he is reading an apology in Chinese to keep his job? Not Kanter,no way,he is no bitch |
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I know they don't teach this stuff in schools anymore, but the Chinese rolled into Tibet in 1950. The UN issued a resolution condemning the Chinese that year.
Mr. Thugball Star is a little late to the party, I'm thinking. |
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Quoted: I know they don't teach this stuff in schools anymore, but the Chinese rolled into Tibet in 1950. The UN issued a resolution condemning the Chinese that year. Mr. Thugball Star is a little late to the party, I'm thinking. View Quote The UN?? Lol, What’d they do send them a stern warning?? |
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Quoted: fuck china View Quote Agreed. And it's hard to believe that hollywood actors and all the sports ball players dont make enough money in the USA and have to suck hard china cock to get sufficient financial rewards. I mean I could understand some school janitor sucking off china for an extra 20 mil. but if you are already banking millions, why sell out the country that made YOU possible. Sometimes I think America deserved china cock. |
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Quoted: Quoted: A literal Nazi-esque genocide is happening right now, complete with concentration camps, and the world yawns. NEW YORK TIMES says what camps? Disney says thanks! Attached File |
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Someone needs to organize a "Chinese Dissident Organ Harvest Day" for NBA games.
They could have people in Chairman Xe costumes running around the arena, throwing fake eyeballs, kidneys and livers into the crowd of spectators. |
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Quoted: I just had a CCP sympathizer on Twitter tell me Americans can't comment because of the genocide of the native Americans... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: A literal Nazi-esque genocide is happening right now, complete with concentration camps, and the world yawns. Did you remind them that actual Nazis used to make that same argument? |
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Canter is more-or-less a political dissident to his home country, IIRC...
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Quoted: Which is why African-Americans can't complain about slavery since their ancestors did it too. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I just had a CCP sympathizer on Twitter tell me Americans can't comment because of the genocide of the native Americans... Which is why African-Americans can't complain about slavery since their ancestors did it too. Ahem, Sir, the (bulk of the) folks in discussion are Americans of African descent. Prefixing & hyphenating their nationality does nothing positive and only serves to shit on the USA. Also lessens the bond to this country... ...this goes for a prefix of any country or continent ETA: A item of mine, is all. Being an American should come before one's ancestral country or continent... |
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Quoted: Ahem, Sir, the (bulk of the) folks in discussion are Americans of African descent. Prefixing & hyphenating their nationality does nothing positive and only serves to shit on the USA. Also lessens the bond to this country... ...this goes for a prefix of any country or continent View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I just had a CCP sympathizer on Twitter tell me Americans can't comment because of the genocide of the native Americans... Which is why African-Americans can’t complain about slavery since their ancestors did it too. Ahem, Sir, the (bulk of the) folks in discussion are Americans of African descent. Prefixing & hyphenating their nationality does nothing positive and only serves to shit on the USA. Also lessens the bond to this country... ...this goes for a prefix of any country or continent |
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He's still not backing down. Have so much respect for him. At least someone has the balls to say it.
It's from CNN so I left it cold. https:// edition. cnn .com/2021/11/10/sport/enes-kanter-encouraged-nba-speak-out-china-amanpour-spt-intl/index.html? Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter says he felt encouraged to speak out against ?hina after the NBA supported players in fighting other injustices and human rights issues. In recent months, Kanter has used social media posts and specially designed clothing during NBA games to bring awareness to China's treatment of the Uyghur community, Tib?t, Taiwan and H?ng Kong. His posts and comments have caused a backlash in China with Celtics games being pulled by Chinese video-streaming site Tencent and the government criticizing the 29-year-old's comments. Kanter told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview that despite speaking out on issues such as Black Lives Matter, the NBA has stayed silent on China -- highlighting its struggle in balancing player activism with the lucrative Chinese market. "NBA made me do this," Kanter said. "Because every time when one of the NBA teams or the commissioner comes out to speak, they say we are encouraging players to talk about whatever they want to talk about. "We are giving freedom to our players to talk about all the injustices happening around the world, all the human rights abuses around the world. So, they gave me this right." Kanter says he sat down privately with NBA officials and commissioner Adam Silver, who says Silver has backed Kanter's right to freedom of speech. The Celtics center says he has no intention of breaking NBA rules but is concerned as to why the NBA has yet to release a public statement on the issue. "If they were really supporting me, they would have put something out there. They would have put out some kind of statement," he said. "People think I do politics, I don't do politics. I do human rights." CNN has reached out to the NBA for comment but has yet to receive a response. "There are so many athletes, so many actors, so many singers and so many people who have a platform that are speaking out about many of the issues out there in the world. "But when it comes to China [...] they are scared because they care too much about money, they care too much about business and they care too much about endorsement deals. "To me, the human rights, and saving people's lives, comes first." |
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Good for him
We’re finding more unlikely allies as this horse shit goes on |
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an autonomous region to the west of China where the Chinese government has cracked down on freedoms and exerted control.
I still remember Free Tibet flags flying at hippy concerts in the 90s. The Beastie Boys used to be pretty outspoken about Tibet... ...the times sure have changed Speed |
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"NBA made me do this," Kanter said. "Because every time when one of the NBA teams or the commissioner comes out to speak, they say we are encouraging players to talk about whatever they want to talk about. "We are giving freedom to our players to talk about all the injustices happening around the world, all the human rights abuses around the world. So, they gave me this right." View Quote Heh... so reading between the lines... the NBA figured their guys would be talking about BLM vs evil white supremacists, or poor Afghan refugees, etc.... But this guy called their bluff. |
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China will kick off soon enough. Who’s going to be on the receiving end?
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"There are so many athletes, so many actors, so many singers and so many people who have a platform that are speaking out about many of the issues out there in the world. "But when it comes to China [...] they are scared because they care too much about money, they care too much about business and they care too much about endorsement deals. "To me, the human rights, and saving people's lives, comes first." View Quote Wow - A thugball player with integrity...Who'da thunk it? |
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Quoted: I just had a CCP sympathizer on Twitter tell me Americans can't comment because of the genocide of the native Americans... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: A literal Nazi-esque genocide is happening right now, complete with concentration camps, and the world yawns. I can comment. I'm not even a Cleveland Indians fan. I never gave a smallpox blanket out as a gesture of goodwill. China sucks. |
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Quoted: I thought OP made a mistake. Nope, editing isn't a profession anymore. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/425212/Screenshot_20211021-185121_Samsung_Inter-2138577.jpg View Quote That's what the Chinese censor changed it to. |
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Brutal dictator gets called out, brutal dictator does brutal dictator stuff.
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Quoted: I know they don't teach this stuff in schools anymore, but the Chinese rolled into Tibet in 1950. The UN issued a resolution condemning the Chinese that year. Mr. Thugball Star is a little late to the party, I'm thinking. View Quote I am pretty sure he wasn’t around in 1950 and China is still in Tibet today. |
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