NBA OFF TOPIC THREAD

[Stakesarehigh]

In this case, Hill isn’t trying to create dialogue or to fix anything. She’s doing what you say we can’t agree on: establishing that an issue exists. She’s getting crucified for having the audacity to bring up a disparity.

Yes black basketball players never get press lol

 

[thunderc]

Again…
Who
The
Fuck
Are
You?

You don’t like a professional’s work or her voice then don’t read her shit. It’s just that simple. You think it should be done differently? Go out the work in and build your own readership. Don’t want to do that? Then shut right the fuck up about what other people should do with the power of the pen they’ve earned.


This is bizzaro world. You’re simultaneously screaming racism isn’t a thing anymore while also saying the black woman writer shouldn’t write about something you don’t like. And you can’t even see how disjointed that is.

I’ll keep saying what I think. What’s really messed up is that there are legit female reporters out in the world who have to waste their time proving they aren’t going to be another Hill.

 

[fightinfunbags]

Yup high and mighty, thinking something only believes what you think it is

Again, I humbly apologize for using words as it relates to their meaning. The world would be better if we could all just Willy nilly define words to me what we want them to mean as individuals because then we’d have the ability to communicate as well as those people at the Tower of Babel.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Haha! @DJ tagging you with the expectation that you have to speak on behalf of all black women is actually a level of racism in itself.

I'm racist because I tagged Mecca? LOL.

I tagged her because she is a smart cookie and I have known her to wallow in the mud talking about this kind of thing.

Fucking dumb ass.

 

[fightinfunbags]

I’ll keep saying what I think. What’s really messed up is that there are legit female reporters out in the world who have to waste their time proving they aren’t going to be another Hill.

Only if there is a bigot on the other side of the table in their interview.

 

[thunderc]

Again, I humbly apologize for using words as it relates to their meaning. The world would be better if we could all just Willy nilly define words to me what we want them to mean as individuals because then we’d have the ability to communicate as well as those people at the Tower of Babel.

Humility is definitely something you need, but I’m sure your priest is working on that.

 

[fightinfunbags]

I'm racist because I tagged Mecca? LOL.

I tagged her because she is a smart cookie and I have known her to wallow in the mud talking about this kind of thing.

Fucking dumb ass.

I didn’t call you a racist but now I’m saying “DJ don’t read too good.”

 

[fightinfunbags]

Humility is definitely something you need, but I’m sure your priest is working on that.

You’re right. When I’m right and someone else is wrong I have a tendency to belabor that point. I’ll try and do a better job when you fuck up in the future.

 

[thunderc]

Only if there is a bigot on the other side of the table in their interview.

There you go redefining words. In this example what you are calling a bigot could be anyone that doesn’t want needless attention on something that no longer exists.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Also, didn’t you say that you didn’t read her article? She didn’t say that Clark is only getting coverage because she’s white. She’s saying other great players have not gotten the amount of press and coverage she has gotten. That’s a defensible opinion and one that’s consistent with data done in a study in 2021. There’s not much else out there measuring this.

No I read it

That's why I specifically said Boston isn't as good

If it was reverse it would be like claiming Mickelson wasn't getting as much coverage as Tiger even though he was just as good

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Haha! @DJ tagging you with the expectation that you have to speak on behalf of all black women is actually a level of racism in itself.

@DJ knows I don’t fit in anyone’s box.

Being a black woman is part of who I am, not all that I am.

Mother, Daughter, Veteran, former law enforcement, centrist, Baptist , medical professional and Black.

Oh, and I have a fat ass too.

There is no box that can accommodate all that.

 

[fightinfunbags]

There you go redefining words. In this example what you are calling a bigot could be anyone that doesn’t want needless attention on something that no longer exists.

Anybody who assumes a black female journalist applicant for a job is gonna be Jemele Hill is a bigot. Again, I’m sorry that words have meaning.

 

[DJ Fieri]

@DJ knows I don’t fit in anyone’s box.

Being a black woman is part of who I am, not all that I am.

Mother, Daughter, Veteran, former law enforcement, centrist, Baptist , medical professional and Black.

Oh, and I have a fat ass too.

There is no box that can accommodate all that.

There you go.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I'm racist because I tagged Mecca? LOL.

I tagged her because she is a smart cookie and I have known her to wallow in the mud talking about this kind of thing.

Fucking dumb ass.

I'd love to hear and respect her opinion on this

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Anybody who assumes a black female journalist applicant for a job is gonna be Jemele Hill is a bigot. Again, I’m sorry that words have meaning.

Totally agree with this.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Data says she isn’t wrong.

She is just blowing it out of proportion. Caitlyn Clark is the best shooter we have ever seen in women's basketball? Most likely. One of the top players from the last 20-30 years? She is in the running. She just happens to be white.
She needs to get over it.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I'd love to hear and respect her opinion on this

That is why I tagged her.

Because it's nice to get a female's take. Not a lot here on tHoop.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

That is why I tagged her.

Because it's nice to get a female's take. Not a lot here on tHoop.

For sure

Not only because of her personal POV but because she knows a heck of a lot more on the WNBA than I do.

 

[DJ Fieri]

For sure

Not only because of her personal POV but because she knows a heck of a lot more on the WNBA than I do.

I know.

 

[thunderc]

Anybody who assumes a black female journalist applicant for a job is gonna be Jemele Hill is a bigot. Again, I’m sorry that words have meaning.

There you go again, changing the narrative. That’s what you do though.