Martel: NBA Scandal Challenging Every Teenager to Condemn China
Breitbart News
8 Oct 2019

The Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to censor support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong has created a moment in which every young American NBA fan is being challenged to reject authoritarianism, Breitbart International News editor Frances Martel noted in a Tuesday morning interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

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Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, was forced to issued a profuse apology to the communist regime in China after tweeting, and then deleting, the message “Fight for freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Hong Kong is currently in its fifth month of peaceful, pro-democracy protests urging its government to keep Beijing from imposing its draconian speech and religion restrictions on the capitalist city. China’s puppet government in Hong Kong began using live gunfire this week to subdue unarmed protesters and regularly threatens an escalation of violence against the millions-strong movement.

The most recent protester gunned down by Hong Kong police is a 14-year-old boy.

The NBA issued an effusive apology after Morey extended support to the movement. Commissioner Adam Silver then attempted to respond to outrage in the United States by saying that “Daryl Morey is supported in terms of his ability to exercise his freedom of expression,” but not specifying if the NBA is the one supporting him.

The NBA has also established a training camp in Xinjiang, western China – home to thousands of concentration camps where as many as 3 million people, mostly Muslim ethnic Uighurs, are subjected to torture, rape, slavery, organ harvesting, and forced sterilization.

Following the Morey controversy, Marlow noted, “If you’re watching the NBA or supporting that product, you have to come to grips with the fact that you are supporting an industry that is working with the Chinese Communist Party, a regime that oppresses tens of millions, hundreds of millions … and you’re okay with it if you’re an NBA supporter.”

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