I still can't believe I just saw a 7'5 guy take a pull-up 30-foot game-tying three. This is what it must've been like to see a movie in color for the first time.
Y’all ever noticed that the wheels of government move mighty quick when it comes time to marginalize folks? You want funding for public services? Wait a couple years. Need to ban abortion, gerrymander districts, or dehumanize trans people? It’ll get done by tomorrow.
The Jokic backlash isn't really about Jokic, it's about a particular kind of condescending, entitled, upper-middle class professional "fan" that masquerades as a neutral observer.
Jokic losing a 3 vs. 6 seed first round series against an opponent who’s down their best player and another top five player is something they would’ve put LeBron in a gulag for in the 2010s. Just crazy
This is part of a higher education crisis that also speaks to the hostile climate toward black students. But coaches & athletics administrators, who allegedly care about their (mostly black) athletes’ academic and social lives, never seem to have shit to say about any of this.
“He disrespects black ppl and nothing happens but once he goes antisemitic that’s when all the repercussions come in” ok well let’s rewind to that first part. Once you shit on black ppl I don’t give a fuck what happens to you. Stay over there with them. And watch how they’ll take every chance to remind you that you’ll never be one of them.
Doing the whole “this is an unjustly persecuted black man” pro-black spin for the dude who said slavery was a choice, pressed up White Lives Matter and Nazi merch and made a Heil Hitler song is wild as hell folks are really fuckin crazy