Surprised no one has talked about the growing calls to ban cotton from Xinjiang and the league/player’s association lack of response.
Will the league respond?
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38556064/commission-calls-nba-end-use-shoes-made-forced-labor
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LeBron mad.
Isn’t this just a shakedown by US politicians to grift some of that Chinese bribe money?
Maybe if it were actually gonna happen. Our economy has been married to china for quite some time. Those politicians gonna get rid of their iPhones too?
for some reason i thought the actual threads players made in games wasn’t made in sweatshops. like hell i assumed they could afford not to do that???
NBA doesn’t care. They are playing the first preseason game tomorrow in UAE where homosexuality is illegal. The only thing they care about is money
It’s going to affect the NBA not only financially, but physically, emotionally and spiritually.
No it won’t. NBA has invested way too much into China.
Also Xinjiang cotton is a direct competitor to US cotton so all I see is economic warfare instead of some kind morally guided action.
Didn’t realize we were still perpetuating this Adrian Zenz/Radio Free Asia/western think tank BS
Ww3
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Were you trying to link an article or something?
/r/nba: sweatshop labor bad
also /r/nba: omg Jordan made 3 billion what a hero 5000 upvotes!!!!
This is hypocritical when nothing is said about the products made in the US via slave labor because it’s sanctioned by the constitution!! I honestly don’t see the difference
Americans living in a country where undocumented immigrants pick their fruits and factories employ children should fix their own country before trying to criticise China’s labour laws and the NBAs business dealings.
Why single out the NBA exclusively? I’m pretty sure the NFL and MLB gear is also made in China using the same materials and methods.
Why does Congress want a private business to do the dirty work for them? Why aren’t they passing a law banning Xinjjang cotton?
LeMao in tear$
It’s interesting that they call on a league of predominantly black players, to be the folks who end the use of Chinese goods, when….
The rockets gm couldn’t even make a small comment to daddy China the nba ain’t gonna screw up one of their biggest markets
China is good, actually.
You’ve chosen a difficult opponent
Can they also end the use of using visually impaired designers?
Michael Rubin in shambles
Ah, OK, so India/Indonesia/Vietnam it is, then!
For damn sure they’re not going to make these jerseys and shit in America….as the cost of labor alone would skyrocket it into hockey jersey territory (HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH THOSE THINGS ARE?!?!?)
Lmao LeMao gonna throw another tantrum
“I cannot stand the blatant hypocrisy of these thug NBA players taking advantage of slave labor manufacturing in China!” – Matt Gaetz, *Sent from IPhone*
With the way labor being fucked over in America as it is, should we stop buying American cars too?
Is there a reason this targets the NBA? I get the NBA is the most popular US league in China but Nike also makes the jerseys for MLB and NFL teams.
The article states it’s a bipartisan effort but it seems politically motivated and superficial to target one league or just sports in general when so much of what we use comes from exploited labor
Yeah this isn’t going to happen because the US hasn’t been able to do it either (despite implementing the ban). China is hiding the cotton by either:
1. Sending it to 3rd party countries to process, then it’s shipped back to China as an import and then mfg into clothes.
2. Or shipping the processed cotton to these countries to mfg and the clothes are then made in x country
3. Drop shipping items to the US because if it’s under $800, it doesn’t need to undergo a customs check.
15% of random cotton clothing inspections are showing up as having DNA (essentially soil and nutrient characteristics from) from being grown in Xinjiang so it’s clear this stuff is getting by in items that aren’t inspected.
There’s a great WSJ video on YT on the topic that came out in the last week and I recommend watching it if you’re actually interested.
Article says they want CJ McCollum and Adam Silver to testify before Congress lmao. This is clearly culture war red meat so republicans can get epic sound bites like “So you support BLM…but you LOVE Uyghur slavery! Hypocrisy???”
>The letter to McCollum quoted from testimony in July by former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, who alleged the union pressured him to stop criticizing China’s human rights record.
Lmao at the Kanter grift going to Congress.
Players and owners definitely don’t care lol they’ll pretend to care about human rights when it benefits them but they’re both too greedy to actually do anything