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I’ve seen some highlights of the dude from Dallas. He’s posterizing guys with in your face dunks. This Arenas dude sounds like an absolute clown.
There is absolutely no dog whistling here, this is straight up racism and would never be tolerated from a white person in regards to any other race.
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(04-05-2024, 09:08 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: I’ve seen some highlights of the dude from Dallas. He’s posterizing guys with in your face dunks. This Arenas dude sounds like an absolute clown.
There is absolutely no dog whistling here, this is straight up racism and would never be tolerated from a white person in regards to any other race.
The ONLY reason I may see something different is that Europeans do play a style and brand of basketball that is pretty different than US. Some see it as a softer brand, a less physical brand. Now…Gilbert may be threading the needle here on this and inarticulately saying that. But the more likely answer is that he doesn’t like the white guys having success in a sport he classifies as black dominated.
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I think he literally threw out an exception for black players from Europe. He just keeps digging.
If the Euros play a softer brand of ball, then why aren’t you kicking their azzzz?
The idea that this crap can be openly tolerated, where the world would come to an end if the races were reversed, is just comical. Sharpe let this dude riff like that? Did he even try to pump the brakes as the host?
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He did for Giannis and Wemby. Who are both absolute freaks athletically.
It’s a podcast. It’s like getting your news from Twitter and tik tok. It’s the Wild West of opinion and commentary.
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Meanwhile in Utah the cops are on a mission to solve a hate crime.
Arenas can have his opinion. My issue is simply the double standard. If this was a white guy dumping on, say, black QBs? The world would stop. The dude’s career would be on the ropes or over.
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I basically tell these people just to kiss my ass anymore and I tell them not to take their racial BS to me.