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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
This isn’t about Caitlin clark not getting universal support. It’s ok to criticize her or not like her or prefer somebody else. That’s a part of being a basketball fan. And yeah it’s not ok to hate someone out of pure racism. After decades of watching the chiefs I can barely think of a single player who was disliked because of race. That’s how this could and should have gone. If the league embraced clark, her rabid fan base would have embraced other players. In case anyone hadn’t noticed most of her teammates they cheer for are black.
But many of her critics hate her because she’s white and straight. That isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact. Before she even stepped foot in the wnba arena you had media members complaining that she had “pretty privilege”. Even to the point of calling her fans klansmen, using offensive terms not only at clark but her black teammates for playing “Uncle Tom.” It’s wrong. She gets berated by the media gatekeepers for not speaking out enough (she has literally never said anything remotely offensive). And yet not a single one of them or the wnba will acknowledge the racism that gets flung her way.
If you want trolls to leave the game, then stop feeding them. I thought they had learned the lesson but they apparently seem intent on being bullied to cave in to the very small but very vocal minority
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So this poor athlete is experiencing a small taste of what non-white athletes have lived through for decades? I guess at least she gets reprieve when she exits the arena and doesn’t face injustice elsewhere. Other than, you know, for being a woman.
Maybe having sympathy for Clark would lead to more tolerance for non-whites, but that’s clearly not the case.