Rudy Gobert shares post on the mistreatment of Uyghurs on Instagram

[COY0607]

The awfulness of China is more than enough to vote for Trump. He's the only American politician willing to stand up to them, which is why the Chinese propaganda machine wants a Biden victory.

Lmao China is literally more powerful and aggressive than they have ever been. Trump hasn't done **** to China except give the entire nation something to galvanize towards. Weakening every institution that makes America powerful is not conducive to stopping em. He's literally hot-air.

Arguably the best idea of Trump's presidency was to start going after (and calling out) the CCP, but as with everything else in the administration - the execution has been horrible.

On point, good on Gobert for calling out the Chinese. Finally!

[otwok]

Good for Gobert. Hopefully he doesn't backtrack like Dwight Howard did when he said Free Palestine.

There are major Oppression going on in China and we all just turn a blind eye. Shame.

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[Kingdibs19]

Guess Lebron is obligated to comment on every social issue outside America. Forget that he’s in the finals, he needs to quit and become a politician to be in the goat Convo. Because...well I don’t know why, but clearly that’s what some people expect.

[The Warrior]

Guess Lebron is obligated to comment on every social issue outside America. Forget that he’s in the finals, he needs to quit and become a politician to be in the goat Convo. Because...well I don’t know why, but clearly that’s what some people expect.

Obviously no one expects him to make a statement on everything. Him telling others what statements they should make is why he's being criticized as a hypocrite.

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[NotaHypeJob]

I can't say I agree with this but this is definitely a view I haven't considered.

Trump has been decoupling our economy from China for a few years now. The fake news won't talk about it. He has done many things including tariffs on China, eliminating the NAFTA loop hole in which China would send exports to Mexico and Canada and then they would assemble and ship it into the US in order to by pass US duties. The USMCA killed that loop hole and it also increased the percentage of North American made parts required to 75% in order to qualify for duty free status. That is just a tiny percent of the actions he has taken. He has done many more things including signing an executive order yesterday to expedite the restart of our domestic rare earth mineral (and other mineral) industries here in the US. China controls most of the rare earth minerals industry. You won't hear it from the media though. He has also signed various other trade deals with the other Asian countries in order to prepare for the decoupling of China.

Anyways good on Gobert. Beijing Bron must be pissed.

Most tariffs do not cause products to come back sir.

I am a sourcing specialist in manufacturing, some of our products are taxed at 25 - 30% and they are still cheaper than being made in
the US. There are also still ways to get around like routing them to contract manufacturers in SE Asia for example. Most people think the tariffs will be short term as well so there's no need to make the effort in starting resourcing efforts.

[Ducklett]

Surprise surprise: RealGM forums thinks there are "sides" to genocide is bad. LOL!

[RB34]

Guess Lebron is obligated to comment on every social issue outside America. Forget that he’s in the finals, he needs to quit and become a politician to be in the goat Convo. Because...well I don’t know why, but clearly that’s what some people expect.

I don’t think anyone expects that.

It’s just a tad hypocritical to be a champion of social justice and then turn your back on the children forced into labour, because you make money off of them.

[Brofessor24]

I personally don't give a damn about the Uyghurs.

Hopefully the US and China can continue doing business together amicably.

[TRik]

Chinese government watching RealGM right now like...

[Brofessor24]

Guess Lebron is obligated to comment on every social issue outside America. Forget that he’s in the finals, he needs to quit and become a politician to be in the goat Convo. Because...well I don’t know why, but clearly that’s what some people expect.

I don’t think anyone expects that.

It’s just a tad hypocritical to be a champion of social justice and then turn your back on the children forced into labour, because you make money off of them.

In many countries that have lots of sweatshops, working in a sweatshop is better than the alternatives. However, manufacturing helps countries grow. Child labor was once prevalent in America. Many countries simply are trying to catch up to the more industrialized ones. However, that is gonna take time.

One can pick and choose what social injustices one wants to focus on. Trying to right every wrong in the world is unbelievably unproductive/unrealistic.

[Lakers LeBron]

Good on Rudy and shame on LeBron the RealGM poster said

Meanwhile they continue to spend money on and buy products from companies who are far more invested in China than anyone in the NBA ever was

[The Evidence]

I hope he got permission from Lebron before making such an uneducated post.

So many people can be harmed by Gobert's post...

Financially, physically, mentally, spiritually.

[skones]

Surprise surprise: RealGM forums thinks there are "sides" to genocide is bad. LOL!

It's not a RealGM problem, it's a national problem. Just like there are sides to racism is bad.

[baller16]

Crazy how the whole world sits back and watches China continue its modern day genocide. We allow them to get away with so much **** while doing nothing.

They ban all major US social media but the US still allows Chinese social media, but with some progress made recently (banning TikTok & WeChat).

Chinese citizens are allowed to buy foreign property across the world while foreign buyers like us can't buy jack there.

Chinese companies are allowed to be exchanged on stock markets all over the world while no foreign companies are allowed on the Chinese stock market.

They steal IP at unprecedented levels and have no respect for copyright laws. They plant these undercover PhD students and profs all over the world to swing over their research for the benefit of the CCP.

They are the biggest abusers of currency manipulation. The CCP can also control the narratives as we've seen with their BS GDP numbers.

They run a shady organ harvesting business with no repercussions. They continue to violate every human right in the book, yet they hold seats in the UN.

China is reaching crazy levels of nationalism and they're nothing but a ticking time bomb

[cpower]

Rudy Gobert does not post BLM ummm

[Boneman2]

It's a double edged sword. If Nike, or any other company for that matter, pulled out of China, China would bootleg it anyway. They piss on copyrights.

[RB34]

Guess Lebron is obligated to comment on every social issue outside America. Forget that he’s in the finals, he needs to quit and become a politician to be in the goat Convo. Because...well I don’t know why, but clearly that’s what some people expect.

I don’t think anyone expects that.

It’s just a tad hypocritical to be a champion of social justice and then turn your back on the children forced into labour, because you make money off of them.

In many countries that have lots of sweatshops, working in a sweatshop is better than the alternatives. However, manufacturing helps countries grow. Child labor was once prevalent in America. Many countries simply are trying to catch up to the more industrialized ones. However, that is gonna take time.

One can pick and choose what social injustices one wants to focus on. Trying to right every wrong in the world is unbelievably unproductive/unrealistic.

Look I understand you don’t have to champion all causes however, when you directly make money from the injustices then it’s a different story.

Nike has been one of the many companies named benefiting from forced Uyghur labour. I’d say LBJ has a fairly strong relationship with Nike. I’m not saying he has had anything to do with forcing people into labour but...

When he told Morey to think of the financial impacts of speaking out against Chine it rubbed people the wrong way.

[WHITE_HOT_HEAT]

The awfulness of China is more than enough to vote for Trump. He's the only American politician willing to stand up to them, which is why the Chinese propaganda machine wants a Biden victory.

Lmao China is literally more powerful and aggressive than they have ever been. Trump hasn't done **** to China except give the entire nation something to galvanize towards. Weakening every institution that makes America powerful is not conducive to stopping em. He's literally hot-air.

Nope. I work in Europe for one of the premier institutions in tech and Trump has quite literally throttled their tech industry and brought it to a near stand still. Berate the man for being politically incorrect and insensitive but he's the only one with the galls to do that and do it effectively. Against the China poodles everywhere who turned a blind eye to the rampant IP theft, hacking and govt interference almost singlehandedly!!!

All these other companies - US and outside were vary of what the CCP was upto but none had the balls to come out and say it or influence politicians. They talked about it behind closed doors and are so glad now that he did the dirty work. Ditto with the Corona crises. The amount of cover up by the CCP, bribing international leaders and institutions like the WHO and the subsequent throttling of information flow effectively caused the Pandemic!!!! None of these guys come out and say it though even if they privately seethe.

Trump or no Trump, I hope America continues to
follow it's current strategy when it comes to dealing with China.

[oaktownwarriors87]

Honestly, I'm confused as to what side of the argument you're on.

Why does everything have to be polarizing, can't it just be general satire of both?

He's probably on the genocide is bad side tho.

Ding ding ding.
C'mon guys. Not complicated. General sincerity aside, Lebron and co. knows who buys the sneakers and where they're made. Should be obvious who he stands up for and won't stand up to.

I stole your avatar

[Brofessor24]

I don’t think anyone expects that.

It’s just a tad hypocritical to be a champion of social justice and then turn your back on the children forced into labour, because you make money off of them.

In many countries that have lots of sweatshops, working in a sweatshop is better than the alternatives. However, manufacturing helps countries grow. Child labor was once prevalent in America. Many countries simply are trying to catch up to the more industrialized ones. However, that is gonna take time.

One can pick and choose what social injustices one wants to focus on. Trying to right every wrong in the world is unbelievably unproductive/unrealistic.

Look I understand you don’t have to champion all causes however, when you directly make money from the injustices then it’s a different story.

Nike has been one of the many companies named benefiting from forced Uyghur labour. I’d say LBJ has a fairly strong relationship with Nike. I’m not saying he has had anything to do with forcing people into labour but...

When he told Morey to think of the financial impacts of speaking out against Chine it rubbed people the wrong way.

Morey definitely should have thought about that. He has every right to post about Hong Kong (he is not prohibited from doing that), but that will cost the league money.

Oftentimes in life, one has to make compromises.