Kyrie Irving and the Nets Are the NBA’s Great Embarrassment

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OPINION | Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving shared an antisemitic propaganda film and then refused to apologize. Instead of reprimanding him, the Nets chose to fire their coach. What a mess.

Kyrie has responded to criticism of him peddling the rough equivalent of a Nazi propaganda film by acting unhinged, a PR tactic that is really hot at the moment. First, he defended sharing the hate film by saying he’s “an OMNIST” who’s been unfairly branded antisemitic. In a follow-up tweet, he ominously wrote, “The Light is beginning to Dawn.”

“The claims of antisemitism, who are the original chosen people of God, and we go into these conversations and it’s a big no-no. I don’t live my life like that,” he said. “I grew up in a melting pot, when I say a melting pot of all races, white, Black, yellow, Jewish, Christian, Muslim. You see it here in my life now. I’m not here to be divisive. So they can push—I don’t wanna say, cause I’m not identifying any one group or race of people.

Friedell, who isn’t allowed to say, “What the hell are you talking about, dude?”, opts to first ask Kyrie if he actually watched the documentary or read the book it was based on. He said that he “had a lot of time last year”—when he was de facto suspended for opting out of vaccination—“to read a lot, read a, good and bad, about the truth of our world.” Friedell asks if he understands why someone might think the movie in question was antisemitic.

But Kyrie is still a VP on the National Basketball Players Association’s governing board . A whole league ecosystem, powerless to do anything but wag their fingers.

 

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A FILM ABOUT BLACK heritage IS CALLED ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA. UNOSAPG DrAliceJEdwards THEY HAVE SO MUCH PRIVILEGE THEY CAN SAY AND DO AS THEY PLEASE, INCLUDING PARTICIPATE IN TEH BLACK HOLOCAUST WITH IMPUNITY AND WE CAN'T EVEN SHARE A LINK THAT TALKS ABOUT US. ICJ_org hrw

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