Glenn Greenwald
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Women's basketball has been struggling for attention for basically 40 years now, while a lot of other women's sports thrive, you know, women's tennis and women's soccer and for a time, women's golf all got this, you know, serious attention and women's basketball, nobody cared about.
Women's basketball has been struggling for attention for basically 40 years now, while a lot of other women's sports thrive, you know, women's tennis and women's soccer and for a time, women's golf all got this, you know, serious attention and women's basketball, nobody cared about.
Women's basketball has been struggling for attention for basically 40 years now, while a lot of other women's sports thrive, you know, women's tennis and women's soccer and for a time, women's golf all got this, you know, serious attention and women's basketball, nobody cared about.
And now suddenly they have the set of stars that people are interested in these interesting rivalries, these dynamics, you know, like the Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark kind of Rivalry is something that is good for sports.
And now suddenly they have the set of stars that people are interested in these interesting rivalries, these dynamics, you know, like the Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark kind of Rivalry is something that is good for sports.
And now suddenly they have the set of stars that people are interested in these interesting rivalries, these dynamics, you know, like the Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark kind of Rivalry is something that is good for sports.
And yet they seem like they're stuck in this bubble, this time machine of 2019 and 2020, where every single hair trigger event became an excuse to scream racism and launch, you know, federal investigations. And you compare it to like the NBA. the Major League Baseball, National Football League, all of which have a lot of racial mixing within their teams.
And yet they seem like they're stuck in this bubble, this time machine of 2019 and 2020, where every single hair trigger event became an excuse to scream racism and launch, you know, federal investigations. And you compare it to like the NBA. the Major League Baseball, National Football League, all of which have a lot of racial mixing within their teams.
And yet they seem like they're stuck in this bubble, this time machine of 2019 and 2020, where every single hair trigger event became an excuse to scream racism and launch, you know, federal investigations. And you compare it to like the NBA. the Major League Baseball, National Football League, all of which have a lot of racial mixing within their teams.
And there seems to be none of this, basically. And this is a sport, a league that has gone out of its way to be very vocal about its left-wing politics. And it's like they imported 2020 racial hair-trigger scandals where none existed when the whole country has now moved beyond it. And the worst are the sports reporters who basically destroyed their own credibility
And there seems to be none of this, basically. And this is a sport, a league that has gone out of its way to be very vocal about its left-wing politics. And it's like they imported 2020 racial hair-trigger scandals where none existed when the whole country has now moved beyond it. And the worst are the sports reporters who basically destroyed their own credibility
And there seems to be none of this, basically. And this is a sport, a league that has gone out of its way to be very vocal about its left-wing politics. And it's like they imported 2020 racial hair-trigger scandals where none existed when the whole country has now moved beyond it. And the worst are the sports reporters who basically destroyed their own credibility
By no longer talking about sports and wanting to get up on their soapbox and the fact that the person did it here and seems to have invented racism accusations, which are pretty serious, is just the kind of thing that, as you said, generally doesn't bring any accountability because it's considered for the right cause.
By no longer talking about sports and wanting to get up on their soapbox and the fact that the person did it here and seems to have invented racism accusations, which are pretty serious, is just the kind of thing that, as you said, generally doesn't bring any accountability because it's considered for the right cause.
By no longer talking about sports and wanting to get up on their soapbox and the fact that the person did it here and seems to have invented racism accusations, which are pretty serious, is just the kind of thing that, as you said, generally doesn't bring any accountability because it's considered for the right cause.
I mean, again, this is something that happened very commonly in the wake of the Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd incident, where we invented all of these very sensitive frameworks for when racism happens, for when you're supposed to object and launch a sort of scandal. And I think people got to the point where they realized
I mean, again, this is something that happened very commonly in the wake of the Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd incident, where we invented all of these very sensitive frameworks for when racism happens, for when you're supposed to object and launch a sort of scandal. And I think people got to the point where they realized
I mean, again, this is something that happened very commonly in the wake of the Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd incident, where we invented all of these very sensitive frameworks for when racism happens, for when you're supposed to object and launch a sort of scandal. And I think people got to the point where they realized
You know, if you're going to raise serious racism accusations, you need to have a serious basis for it. It seems like the whole country moved on from this sort of thing. I don't know why the N.W.A., the N.W.A., the Women's Basketball Association is continuously engulfing this sort of thing. Yeah, the WNBA.
You know, if you're going to raise serious racism accusations, you need to have a serious basis for it. It seems like the whole country moved on from this sort of thing. I don't know why the N.W.A., the N.W.A., the Women's Basketball Association is continuously engulfing this sort of thing. Yeah, the WNBA.