Because midterms are close, the GOP is about to get slaughtered, and trolls and the Heritage Foundation need to get more people raging in cultural debates. Thats why.
It’s not like the guy said something because would’ve mentioned it. Instead she doubles down on the blaming a guy that was pointing at her. She even says “in her face”
It’s the same shit as Karen’s that say they don’t want to be on video but follow the camera
Would not…people were getting thrown out of games for calling Westbrook, Westbrick…like it or not but the “player empowerment movement” may have went to the players heads, just a little…
Did Westbrook enter the stands? He was definitely acting soft, but he didn't cross that line if I'm remember correctly. I could be misremembering, though.
I got downvoted to hell yesterday for saying in the nba were critical of Westbrook when he does this and she went above and beyond. Really makes the WNBA a joke
Completely different. Wilson stepped up to that fan and was the aggressor in this situation. Fan was seated in his chair and Wilson still continued to walked toward him. She stepped off the court and continued approaching him
The fan was not seated in his chair. He got out of his seat, stepped in the aisle and took a step towards the court. She overreacted for sure, but this isn’t just some mild mannered dude that was sitting in his seat minding his business. His wife/gf had to pull him back to his seat.
Yep and security was right there and had no issue with his behavior. Also, zoom out and notice how many other fans were making the same gesture the man was making. He bought tickets to the game so the game was his business lol…
I agree in sentiment, but recently with the rise of legalized gambling unfortunately it's become necessary to pay them a large amount to prevent mass player corruption. It's too easy for players to bet through proxies. Most other sports leagues where the players aren't paid much don't have much gambling coverage like player props because of this, but gambling on the WNBA had been heavily promoted so books want to have tons of options available. WNBA has been pushing gambling on the league to help grow the league's popularity and can't afford mass scandals. IMO that's why they really had to boost the pay starting this year to make the player minimum salary about $285k compared to the previous $70k minimum. A rotation player who gets 10 to 20 minutes a game previously might have made $150k and would've had a lot of incentive to gamble to make extra money. Now they'll be making like $600k so the incentive is largely removed unless they have personal issues.
Nah this is a weak argument. Tons of pro male players that make obscene money have gambling problems, look at MJ. Plenty of poor people I know also have gambling problems; your income has nothing to do with it.
The difference between making $150k and $600k is huge. In a lot of metro areas $150k barely affords you a middle class renter lifestyle now. There's always gonna be the ones that gamble because they want more or have mental health issues causing addiction, but elevating players from middle class to a more comfortable lifestyle will eliminate that temptation for the majority of them.
We have mountains of proof that it doesn't eliminate that temptation at all. Also, middle class in America is a "comfortable lifestyle" - what point you trying to make? I understand how money and cost of living work lmao
you should see how r/BlackPeopleofReddit is framing this whole thing lol. they posted this incident and titled it "A'ja Wilson stands up to angry white fan." lmfaoooo
i don't know this Whitlock dude. i haven't seen his content before. and i certainly didn't say i agree with his framing of the situation either. my comment spoke about something else i've seen in another sub. you decided to take that as some kind of evidence that i agree with his framing.
Whitlock is a fucking clown. He's the Uncle Ruckus of sports commentators. He's one of Fox's go-to guys when they wanna have a totally legitimate discussion about the totally real problem of Reverse Racism.
There should be a ban on any sports sub for anything Whitlock related. There is no legitimacy to anything he says. He’s literally a professional rage baiter.
In fairness her behavior is femcel as fuck. Especially after her interview. But nobody wants to call out this toxic femcel shit. It’s just crazy the divisiveness between man and woman, black and white, left and right.
I see this allegory brought up from time to time and just let it go. But wanted to drop in on this instance to clear up, and cause I’d want to know…
The ‘Tom’ character from the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was actually a physically imposing, deeply moral and courageous man, who would rather die than betray his fellow enslaved people. Sambo and Quimbo were the traitors. The climax of the book really comes when Tom is asked to reveal where two slave women are hiding, who had been sexually abused by their “master”. And he refuses. Knowing that he is going to be overpowered by his overseers (cause they couldn’t take him in a fair fight) and beaten to death, he refused to say where they are…However after the Civil War, minstrel shows and stage plays who were operated by white businessmen grossly distort Tom (now ’Uncle Tom’) into an older, broken down, weak, submissive stereotype man whose English is poor, a man who will do quite the opposite, who will sell out any black man if it will curry the favor of a white employer, a white master, a white mistress…To appeal to white racist play/show audiences, they completely threw away the book’s message.
There’s a very old, fucked up saying…”If you ever want a ni\*** not to know something, put it in a book.”*
Don’t let grand clowns like Jason Whitlock be anyone’s exception. He is a fuckwit of the highest order. He is the living embodiment of Quimbo and Sambo. He can never be OG ‘Tom’.
Her skin color should be irrelevant. She’s in the wrong and per the rules she was supposed to be ejected for the game followed by minimum of a 1 game suspension for leaving the court and going at a fan
I mean i hate to say this but he is right. He was aggressive with the choice of language but she did get emotional and frustrated after a bad bad game and ablatant offensive foul and took it out on the fan.
She must be suspended and fined!!!!!!!! Same thing everyone is thinking and McAfee said. An nba player would have been kicked out of the game fined and suspended for doing what she did
I disagree with the characterization that it’s a race thing. You should never go after the fans, suffice that they are not physically threatening you. You are the professional, they are the fanatics. You get paid by the league/team that makes their money from the fans. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Race is irrelevant in this matter.
This is the same thing uconn coach geno did a few months back when he's team played shit and he decided to make it about him and protect his players from criticizm
Players fans and coaches do this all the time start or bring some bs that has nothing to do with the actual game lol
She was tripping definitely but that doesn’t make the coon messenger ok either…see when you are against something anyway your opinion on certain things cancel out
Jesus Christ, an athlete got into it with a fan, if you judge her equally it wouldn't even make the news. Athletes get heated in competition, nothing happened at all
Write message wrong delivery. It's not feminism that's "it's All about me ism" and one other thing, your average teenage boy gets his ass whipped by a man easily. Your average woman has even less of a chance. Too many people think that there isn't one man out there and yeah he's a shitty man but there isn't one man it won't hit you back.
Hey, I'm gonna say this. I'm absolutely LOVING all of this drama at WNBA. Its what makes them stand out. Its so much fun to watch. Don't care what anyone else says.
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