Shoeless Joe ESPN Knows NBA Slave Labor Hypocrisy

NBA social justice hypocrisy keeps getting embarrassing exposure as its “stars” as well as league continue to profit from China’s Ughur/Muslim “slave” labor. Even ESPN has begun to question how “shoe deals with Chinese companies linked to forced labor” can be squared with their PR.

According to ESPN, up to 50 NBA players have signed lucrative deals with Chinese shoe companies and everybody thought it was dandy until the Trump Administration drew attention to that nation’s alleged “genocide” via slave labor practices. In its latest story & as an example, ESPN notes: “At the height of protest over the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, one of retired NBA star Dwayne Wade’s Twitter accounts posted “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Great slogan, which Wade & current NBA players like LeBron James throw around as often as they slam dunk. Yet like his fellow “stars” capitalizing financially on their notoriety, ESPN says Wade was actually promoting his deal with a Chinese sports apparel company Li-Ning, “which the U.S. government has accused of abetting human rights abuses.”

Of course, the Biden Administration is dealing with accusations of its own hypocrisy in criticizing China over human rights abuses while winking at the possibility that Communist country (and its own Dr. Fauci) is covering up a Wuhan lab leak from which the Covid pandemic may have been unleashed (not a rabid bat in an open-air market). The NFL, too, so long as its “Inspire Change” initiative funnels money to several “non-profits” advocating for the defunding &/or elimination of NFL cities’ police forces. Does ESPN care to take a look see into that charade exposed by Fox News & The Blaze?

Davd Soul