Dollars & Dunces: ‘Epidemic of Sellouts’: NBA Players’ Shoe Deals With Chinese Brands Linked to Forced Labor Draws Criticism

[nels]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epidemic-of-sellouts-nba-players-shoe-deals-with-chinese-brands-linked-to-forced-labor-draws-criticism_4297041.html

 

This is on the radar and folks probably won't see the incoming until it's too late.

[ProfD]

I believe that article is behind a paywall. 

 

Nonetheless, it is amazing that athletes are told to "shut and play" if they express any political opinions, yet, someone wants to hold them accountable for forced labor when it comes to a shoe deal.   Nevermind that the players do not own the  brands. 

 

H8ll, if that is the case, there would be no sports teams if the players boycotted their racist owners who pay them to play. 

[Stefan]

But Nels ignores Eileen Gu who was born in the U.S. and decided to ski for China at the just completed Olympics.

In Nels' mind, Black people are the ONLY individuals he loves to lambaste, insult and attack. 

Everyone else gets a free pass. 

Self hatred amongst Black people has surged with the ascension of Trump, who incidentally approves of the brutal invasion of Ukraine and the anticipated assassination of democratically elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 

When reading Nels, you're reading a Fascist who would gladly do away with most Blacks. 

[Stefan]

Epoch Times is nothing but a Right Wing rag connected to Falun Gong, a quasi-political and religious movement banned in China.

The multi-language publication adores one Donald Trump and has been a leading proponent of the canard that the 2020 election was rigged. It wasn't.

Some of the strange ideology of Falun Gong adherents includes a distrust of medical doctors and a belief in malevolent, Earth-roaming aliens who created diabolical technology, such as video games, according to The Atlantic magazine.

And Falun Gong members are Nels' intellectual heroes? Excuse me for giggling.

Demand Nels actually produce verifiable figures for his Black athlete blaming nonsense. 

Now, Eileen Gu, the U.S.-born freestyle skier who has been labeled a traitor by none other than Fox News, banked $31 million in 2021 thanks to endorsement deals for various Chinese products. No one hears Nels whining about that. 

Eileen Gu racked up $31 million in endorsements in 2021