Rockets general manager Daryl Morey and the NBA just backed down over a tweet which said “Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.” because Communist China got pissed off.
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Fuck the Chinese Communist Party.
They’re responsible for the deaths of tens of millions, brutally stamped out Tiananmen, & right now have hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in camps, a nation under surveillance, & want to crush Hong Kong.
Never cave to them.
On anything.
Ever.
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Corporate America bending the knee to the Chinese Communist Party is going to become more & more common. It is pathetic, hypocritical, greedy — and dangerous.
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China's official basketball association says it will suspend cooperation with the Houston Rockets following a tweet by Darryl Morey in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. es.pn/2LPkJ8M
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There is the possibility for a bipartisan consensus here: when the Chinese Communist Party bitches at us about things like democracy or freedom, don’t cave — tell them to pound sand, kick rocks, and screw off. They need us more than we need them.
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They're a business, not politicians. Why do we expect the NBA or a NBA GM to go toe to toe over political issues?
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They run a business in a country that has up to three million Muslims in death camps supports the wprlds largest death camp in north Korea. Continuing to do business in china is a political decisions
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