Washington Post Chose Pandering Over Principle

First off, language warning. I avoid profanity in my posts as a rule, as it tends to take the focus off of your idea ans shine it on the words you’re using. This is one of the rare times it is necessary, and I’ll warn as it approaches. That said, let’s get to it.

I know, with everything else going on, sports ranks fairly low on priorities. But the sports section in Sunday’s Washington Compost caught my eye –  Jerry Brewer’s “Loeffer chose pandering over principle in WNBA fight”. Yes, Sister Babe still keeps our subscription, and getting insight into the the minds of The Radical Left can be useful. So flipping through the paper gives the usual anti-Trump and anti-American vitriol, no surprises. Of course, the Sports section is even more interesting given that now about the only things those “journalists” have to write about ends up intersecting with politics.

That headline caught my eye and I decided to read, and in terms of exposing Leftist lunacy it did not disappoint. To quickly summarize, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffer in Georgia is a part Owner of the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA. For those of you unfamiliar, the WNBA is the NBA-propped money losing womens’ league. The play is not at the same level as the NBA for obvious reasons, but if the NBA is willing to subsidize them, more power to them. Like any typical WaPo writer, Brewer has plenty of filler (mainly spewing vitriol at Loeffer)  before making us read to nearly halfway into the article to get to his point:

In a letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Loeffler expressed her displeasure and made sure to sensationalize the players’ objectives.

“The lives of each and every African American matter, and there’s no debating the fact that there is no place for racism in our country,” she said in the letter, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported. “However, I adamantly oppose the Black Lives Matter political movement, which has advocated for the defunding of police, called for the removal of Jesus from churches and the disruption of the nuclear family structure, harbored anti-Semitic views, and promoted violence and destruction across the country. I believe it is totally misaligned with the values and goals of the WNBA and the Atlanta Dream, where we support tolerance and inclusion.”

Translation: Black lives mattering freaks me out.

What? So instead of responding to any of Loeffer’s claims you simply dismiss them with a lazy straw man argument? OK, I’ll help and go point by point for you:

which has advocated for the defunding of police

Fact check: True. This comes straight from the BLM web site 

called for the removal of Jesus from churches

Fact check: True. Shaun King, aka “Talcum X”, called for exactly this 

disruption of the nuclear family structure

Fact check: True. Again, this comes directly from the BLM web site

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

Next up:

harbored anti-Semitic views

Fact check: True. Forget the crud from D-Jax, this is nothing new.

and promoted violence and destruction across the country

Seriously? There are many examples, so how about the one calling for the murder of police officers? Let’s move on.

Black Lives Matter is not a political movement. It is a human rights movement, one that cannot be met with a “Yeah, but …” reaction, especially when the garbage after “but” is a bunch of fearmongering drivel. Yes, police reform is an adjacent issue. No, people are not coming after Jesus as if he were a Confederate statue. No, they do not seek to tear apart families. No, the ignorant and shameful anti-Semitic rhetoric of DeSean Jackson and Stephen Jackson do not represent a consensus view.

Not a political movement? They’re own founder calls herself a Marxist! The rest of the points have already been refuted, but I included them to show how some idiot with a search engine could refute Brewer’s talking points with about one minute of reasearch for each point. And yet, it gets even more intellectually dishonest and offensive. The next few paragraphs aren’t in the same sequence as from the post, but here’s their point (language warning immediately following the quoted text):
Again, the players want to take the concept of black lives matter to its most literal and human form. They want you never to forget a few of the black women who have died because either police failed to serve and protect or vigilantes went on a hate spree.

If you consider that controversial or enraging, you might want to make sure a white hood isn’t stashed away in your closet.

I call what Loeffler tried to do the D.O.G. method. When you feel threatened by a group of people you don’t understand — or don’t want to understand — you dehumanize, otherize and generalize.

Go fuck yourself. DOG meothod? You do realize that you are doing EXACTLY what you are accusing Loeffer of? And “make sure a white hood isn’t stashed away in your closet” is the typical Leftspeak argument of making disgusting accusations when the facts aren’t on their side. So fuck yourself. Fuck yourself hard and off the deep end.

There’s a lot more weapons grade stupidity in this post, but there’s really no need to go on – the rest of the article goes exactly as you’d expect. To channel Jim Geraghty, “Way to go, Washington Post. Way to go.”

Really bad news is it looks like all those sports writers will have nothing but politics to write about for quite a while

— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) March 12, 2020

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