We know that businesses [like the NBA] principals are profit, profit, and more profits — ethics and human rights are not their bailiwick.
But I do wonder what the NBA rank-and-file really think of partnering with totalitarian regimes that intend to keep their citizens in a state of virtual bondage.
Morally, no self-governing people should be doing much business with dictatorships. Find the cost of freedom.
It would seem to behoove trump to provide moral support to pro-democracy forces, just as past presidents have done. He has instead decided to support the authoritarian regime in China, as elsewhere. And yet cartoonists continue to criticize the NBA while giving trump a pass, when he is in a much greater position to affect policy. It’s insane.
The Chinese are not stoping basketball. Not even “Basketball”… and really, not even NBA. They’re using their ability to stop it to get compliance with their perfectly valid (if wrongheaded) law about what you may(not) say, while in China.
• Thomas over 4 years ago
We know that businesses [like the NBA] principals are profit, profit, and more profits — ethics and human rights are not their bailiwick.
But I do wonder what the NBA rank-and-file really think of partnering with totalitarian regimes that intend to keep their citizens in a state of virtual bondage.
Morally, no self-governing people should be doing much business with dictatorships. Find the cost of freedom.
comixbomix over 4 years ago
What we should do is prevent American cultural products from being ‘shared’ with China…but technology won’t allow it.
quixotic3 over 4 years ago
It would seem to behoove trump to provide moral support to pro-democracy forces, just as past presidents have done. He has instead decided to support the authoritarian regime in China, as elsewhere. And yet cartoonists continue to criticize the NBA while giving trump a pass, when he is in a much greater position to affect policy. It’s insane.
TaximanSteve over 4 years ago
Talk ‘bout a Dog in the Manager. How’s dat free trade thingy working out for you?
Concretionist over 4 years ago
The Chinese are not stoping basketball. Not even “Basketball”… and really, not even NBA. They’re using their ability to stop it to get compliance with their perfectly valid (if wrongheaded) law about what you may(not) say, while in China.