Caitlin Clark goes woke
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White privilege absolutely is a thing in many aspects of life. It’s not the reason Caitlin Clark is so popular.
There are a lot of white players in the WNBA, current and former. None of them have/had anywhere near the star power that Clark has.
There are a lot of heterosexual players in the WNBA, current and former. None of them have/had anywhere near the star power that Clark has.
There are a lot of current and former players in the WNBA who are prettier than Caitlin Clark. None of them have/had anywhere near the star power that Clark has.
If being straight, white, and pretty wasn’t enough for those players to achieve the level of stardom that Clark has, then how can we explain Clark’s popularity?
Is it possible that it’s because she scored more points than any other player in the history of Division 1 college basketball and also, by the way, had the third most assists in the history of women’s college basketball?
Might that be a contributing factor?
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I’m talking about in the US. Is there an Asian privilege. They win most academic awards and spelling bee awards in schools and an extreme disproportion of them attend elite universities.
There is no doubt her whiteness is a factor! She is “the Great White Hope” of women’s basketball. There is no debating it!
I can remember 50 years ago a pro tour golfer talking about the future of pro golf and he thought there would be an athletic freak or two come along and remake the game of golf… a taller stronger person, long arms bigger butt, probably a black man..” and this tour pro caught holy hell from many in the game at the time….and Lo and Behold a couple of decades later comes…Tiger Woods!
If Tiger woods was white, he would have been just as popular. We loved him because he was dominating others.
It’s a shame Tiger wasn’t white. Just imagine all the endorsement opportunities he would have had.
1st she’s a classy lady, but you have no clue what her motivation is. Your speculating. I mean it’s just as likely she’s saying hey I’m an ass kicker and I deserve everything. I’ve got by the way. We should also lift up the black women in the league too…
I mean the amount of propaganda, that both sides of this debate, you Dems and the sensitive Republican types have read into her simple statement is a prime example of why we’re constantly gridlocked in Congress, in the media, and any time someone interjects anything that is political.
My Lord!
(In my best Darth Vader voice) Wow….the delusion runs super deep with you doesn’t it Luke? That is not at all what she said & DT sat the bench as well.
There were actually quite a few of us that didn’t want her to play in the Olympics. I was on Twitter at the time, dealing with a bunch of nut jobs, just like you actually, although at least you had the benefit of being an Iowa fan. These other dopes weren’t, but what happened is exactly what I expected. She’d get rested up. Shed Gel with her teammates and she’d tear the league up. Who gives a shit about Olympic basketball.
If you’d like to go back and grab a couple screenshots of what you said with a timestamp, I’m sure we’d all be more than happy to see if it was “basically” the same as what she said now…doh !!
Sure if average means averaging 17/5/5…LOL. And that’s when she wasn’t. “any good”
From mid June on she was more than “in line“ with the other league superstars I mean, holy shit do you believe the things you say?
A bit of an oversimplification, but he did say that and I do agree with your premise.
With that said, we all still carry a lot of baggage and bias.. women towards men and men towards women, different ethnicities to each other, country people to city people, etc., etc.
You, sir, just signed yourself up for a dissertation on John Hollinger’s Game Score player efficiency rating system.
This is a pretty bad take on your part. Serena Williams made over $450 million from her tennis career alone. She signed her first major endorsement deal when she was 17 and ranked 42nd on the tour in 1998. That deal was with puma and it was for 12 million dollars. Which is equal to about 25 million today.
Dude, I am wasting so much time and I hate myself for reading it.
She told you, explicitly in the interview,that she did not want to be "the face of WBB" sitting on the bench during the Olympics.
Maybe you could believe HER when she tells you that, since no one listened to me when I stated it months ago.
Look at her stats. She did not bring her "A" game to the AS game.
2-9 shooting; 4 points.
The Olympics were not "lesser competition", though. Team USA got challenged pretty significantly in several contests.
It is what she said.
I don’t want to be some little person that is kind of dragged around for people to cheer about and only watch because I’m sitting on the bench. That whole narrative kind of upset me. Because that is not fair. It’s disrespectful to the people that were on the team, that had earned it and were really good. And it’s also disrespectful to myself.
She did not want to be on the team just to be a figurehead sitting on the bench.
I am not sure I’ve seen anybody really say it doesn’t or hasn’t existed… I think any reasonable person i.e. not you, is suggesting it’s overdone
She was "averaging" about a 1:1 Assist/TO ratio at the cutoff.
Not what the Olympic coaches were looking for at the time.
You’ll note, nowhere did she say she wasn’t “playing good enough” for the Olympics…
Next…
17/5/5 & your right they were looking for guards that didn’t make much of an impact in the Olympics at all 😂
Just for the peanut galley because you’re a classic “wiggler”…The below is you…
“””” When I posted that she was not playing "good enough" for the Olympics, the trolls came at me like drunk monkeys.
And now that she has stated basically what I'd posted multiple times, those morons are completely avoiding that topic.””””
She most assuredly did not say she wasn’t. “good enough”
It's exactly what she implied; she would not have been an Olympic starter and did not want to just sit on the bench as a figurehead.
They weren't looking for guards that would turn the ball over a lot, because the players who did play in the Olympics struggled w/ that, and had far lower TO numbers in the WNBA than Clark did.
She did not try out.
Her first weeks in the WNBA did not make her a "standout" compared to those who did play.
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