Another quick comment, directed to Azure.
Certainly, the issues in Belarus and China (not only treatment of Uyghers, but also aggressive expansionism against central asian neighbors, treatment of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Naval Expansion, and the awful economic extortion through the Belt + Road Initiative) deserve global attention. However, bringing those issues up in context of the ongoing struggle of people of color in the USA is essentially the same as shouting "all lives matter." Yes, those issues are important, but this issue is at hand and personal for many of the BLACK NBA players, playing in the same country where these issues are occurring. Not absolving them of their ties to Nike/ these other problems, but this is completely separate.
It's the same as the people who are now clamouring that the individual shot in Wisconsin had a criminal record: so ####ing what? Cops still aren't supposed to execute "criminals" in the street, we don't live in ####ing Judge Dredd Future. These are separate things that are being brought in to detract from the conversation and the purpose. Their struggle doesn't matter less because there are other global struggles occurring.
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