Yes, but as we’ve seen, the players are not going to exercise that power in a way that disrupts the flow of Chinese money into the NBA. They can rip Trump all they want BECAUSE their fans agree with that stance, unlike the NFL fans. Right now, LeBron and company look exactly like MJ refusing to take a stance on that…

If the NBA fandom suddenly switched from left-leaning millennials to right-leaning boomers, LeBron, Pop and Kerr would all be told to shut up immediately. The market drives what personality they let their actors take. Anybody who thinks the NBA is “better” than any other league morally is either being intentionally…

The surest sign that China is overtaking the United States as a superpower is how even quicker they are to act like aggrieved, authoritarian-supporting snowflakes.

Just saying “it’s a business” when someone/some corporation does something shitty doesn’t absolve the person/corporation.

The “well, yeah, it’s a business” line of thinking is exactly the problem.

In a shocking development, Adam Silver and the NBA are no more socially conscious or woke than Goodell and the NFL. It’s just that their pressure points come from mainland China rather than MAGA jorts territory.

This makes me wish I watched the NBA so I could quit watching the NBA.

I think that he should be vilified, actually. 

Fun fact about Gladwell, he cut his ‘journalistic’ teeth writing press releases for Big Tobacco, questioning the science behind the determination that it causes cancer and slandering the people suing tobacco companies.

They don’t hire insightful thinkers with a burning urge to speak truth to power for those positions.

I audibly said wow when I read that except where gladwell judged Sandusky's victims for not behaving as he thinks victims of sexual abuse should act. What a repugnant POS.

Malcolm, if you’re reading this (and given both the size and the fragility of ego, I bet that you are) know this: the only thing profound about you is the breadth of your dipshittery. Trying to rationalize a defense of Sandusky and those who enabled him by delegitimizing the way his victims processed their trauma is…

I’m not convinced of Ziegler’s ultimate conclusion—that Sandusky is innocent. But I do agree with him that the case is much more ambiguous and unusual than the conventional press accounts suggest.

“A dumb person’s idea of a smart person.”  Gladwell is what would happen if a TED Talk came to life.

Wait so is this whole thing a pre-emptive defense in case anyone asks Gladwell why he didn’t report Epstein to authorities?

The “Truth-Default Theory” may be useful in explaining Gladwell’s sales numbers. People see a book and assume it must be worth reading, and then can’t admit they wasted their time when it turns out to be shit.

I think this article is missing something. May I suggest: “Fuck you, Gladwell. Selfish fucks like yourself are part of the reason why victims under-report sexual abuse.”

Ssorry, so people in this study could only spot liars 50 percent of the time so the theory is that we assume that people generally tell the truth as opposed to some people are better at lying or spotting liars than others?

Why would Gladwell spend so much time going to bat for a known pedophile? (Just asking questions here)

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.