China's useful idiots
Trump administration adviser and economist Peter Navarro on Friday stated that NBA athletes and Hollywood celebrities are “useful idiots” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), suggesting the Democrats are unwittingly playing into the hands of the Chinese regime.
Navarro, while saying that he will “never ever watch an NBA game again,” told The Epoch Times’ “American Though Leaders” that athletes are reticent to speak out about the Chinese regime because they are beholden to its interests.
“They shut up and dribble when they’re over in China,” he said but added that there are “sweatshops in China” that “make sneakers for their stars” and “sell [them] back to American kids.”
His comments came as the NBA season wrapped up several weeks ago, with the Los Angeles Lakers winning another championship. However, ratings for the NBA Finals hit record lows, and polls have suggested that NBA players’ pro-Black Lives Matter and left-leaning political rhetoric is partially to blame.
Navarro argued that NBA players “really turn an unconscionable blind eye to the abuses in Xinjiang Province,” rights abuses in Hong Kong, and “concentration camps” as well as the “abuses of the Falun Gong with the organ harvesting” of living people. He’s referring to the traditional Chinese meditation practice that has been subject to CCP persecution since 1999.
“These NBA players, not only do they ignore that, but then they have the temerity to get on their soapbox and sound self-righteous about what they see as a repressive America,” he said, referring to the Black Lives Matter protests.
But “the bigger problem,” Navarro argued, “is they feed this narrative that somehow China’s authoritarian government and socialist-communist economic system is superior to ours.”
NBA and Lakers superstar LeBron James came under fire last year for criticizing Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey after he supported anti-CCP protests in Hong Kong. James described Morey as “misinformed” and “not educated,” drawing intense backlash.
Hollywood is also capitulating to the CCP, Navarro said in the interview, noting that there has been a push for studios to remove content to make it palatable for Chinese audiences and regime censors.
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James is the one who is misinformed, and he is being paid handsomely for pushing Chicom propaganda. Hollywood is kowtowing to the Chicoms to get distribution over there.
The NBA has hurt its market in the US by embracing BLM. That Marxist organization has participated in riots including looting and arson.
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