NBA vs. PRC

(Image by Tom Stiglich)

I often say:  I was a child in the '60s--not a child of the '60s.

I vaguely remember images of the Vietnam War being broadcast on the nightly news (there was no 24-hour news cycle).  But it wasn't until the Yom Kippur War broke out that I started paying attention to what was going on in the world.

Along with these two wars erupting early in my life, I remember the anti-war and anti-nuclear protesters.  However, I was too young for either of these movements to have any influence on my political-social opinions.

I did notice one thing about these early American and Western European activist groups ever one of them ever since:

They never take-on true authoritarian regimes.

They called upon America and her allies to disarm our nuclear deterrence, but never asked the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact to do the same.

Feminist get riled-up over real--and imagined--sexism, but are silent over the plight of women in Muslim countries.

And this trend continues to this day.

Last weekend the NBA drew the ire of the People's Republic of China (PRC), when the owner of the Houston Rockets tweeted his support of the Hong Kong protesters.

The result?

The "woke when convenient" NBA kowtowed before their Chinese overlords.

Initially, the PRC stopped NBA broadcasts while other sanctions followed.

Fortune Magazine crunched the numbers and determined Daryl Morey's tweet is a problem for the NBA.  (Note:  This Fortune Magazine video has garnered all negative comments and more thumbs down than thumbs up ratings).

Laua Ingraham called this giving the PRC full-court press, while Tucker Carlson pointed out that we live in an Age of Woke Capitalism (with a limit on Free Speech).

And the PRC has infiltrated more than just American sports.  Many other US companies cave to the PRC's censorship demands.

So as leftist politicians want to replace American citizens with illegal aliens in order to influence future elections, American businesses are willing to ditch American customers for communist ones.

(Image by Gary Varvel)