It was really refreshing to see everyone coming together last night to drag the NBA. I haven't seen that much reaching across the aisle since 9/11. When Ben Domenech and Ben Rhodes are both dragging you for the same thing, you have seriously messed up.As to the NBA... the NBA is another in a long line of courageous companies that are super woke so long as it doesn't cost them anything. As you mentioned, they made it clear they intended to be very supportive of their players' right to say anything they wanted about the president and others. They made it clear they didn't care if fans didn't like it, because their players had a right to speak. Fine -- no argument with that from me.But as soon as someone criticizes a totalitarian regime that is currently prosecuting a brutal cultural and religious genocide against more than a million people, all of a sudden it's a full court press to make sure everyone understands that Morey's deeply offensive opinion was his own, and not one shared by anyone in the league. They forced him to apologize and there was talk that he might even lose his job.I was never a huge fan of the NBA anyway -- I love basketball, but tend to enjoy college hoops much, much more. But after this, it will be a cold day in Hell before this league ever sees a dime of mine. Let them get all of their money from China, if that market is so important to them.But there's more to it than all of that. This was a shot across the bow to American companies, making it clear that they better restrict their speech to sentiments approved by the Chinese government or there would be consequences for it. We will see if American companies value the basic human right to be free from torture and genocide more than they do access to Chinese markets.
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