{"id":1050248,"date":"2021-11-23T23:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1050248"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:43:31","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-enes-kanter-courageous-to-call-out-china-lebron-james-and-colin-kaepernick-dis-america-for-chinese-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-enes-kanter-courageous-to-call-out-china-lebron-james-and-colin-kaepernick-dis-america-for-chinese-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy: Enes Kanter Courageous to Call Out China, LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick Dis America for Chinese Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvivek-ramaswamy-enes-kanter-courageous-to-call-out-china-lebron-james-and-colin-kaepernick-dis-america-for-chinese-yuan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1050248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-873815870-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The NBA\u2019s Enes Kanter displays \u201ccourage\u201d in his critiques of China and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick conform to leftist corporate orthodoxies, Vivek Ramaswamy, author of&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice\/dp\/1546090789?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America\u2019s Social Justice Scam<\/a><\/em>, said in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.<\/p>\n<p>Kanter has repeatedly criticized the Chinese government and Xi Jinping, China\u2019s head of state, despite the NBA\u2019s direct and indirect business dealings in China valued at billions of dollars per year. He contrasted Kanter\u2019s political expressions with the left-wing politics pushed by James and Kaepernick, framing America as pathologized by \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI respect [Kanter] for what he\u2019s doing, because it is a lot harder to take that personal risk&nbsp;<\/span><span>than it is to bend the knee during our national anthem when everybody else is doing it,\u201d Ramaswamy said. He noted that compliance with leftist theatrics, conversely, requires no courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He stated, \u201cToday, there couldn\u2019t be a more conformist thing to do than to kneel or turn your back during the national anthem \u2014 while all your other teammates are doing the same thing \u2014 in a culture and a media that celebrates you for doing it. That\u2019s conformism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ramaswamy continued, \u201c<\/span><span>What Enes Kanter is doing with respect to China involves real personal risk. This is a guy who is actually taking personal risks that Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike, is not willing to take; that LeBron James \u2014 who professes to stand for social justice in the United States \u2014 will not take. [James] criticizes social injustice to no end \u2014 and the 45th president of the United States to no end \u2014 here in the United States, b<\/span><span>ut is a lap dog of the CCP that does their bidding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ramaswamy said Phil Knight, LeBron James, and Colin Kaepernick are \u201cbiting the United States, but lying sheepishly, lying prostrate before their true God in China to be able to enter a Chinese market, that gets them to jump to a Chinese Yuan like it\u2019s a bone for a dog.&nbsp;<span>That\u2019s effectively the culture that we\u2019ve created in this country for companies that are doing business in China, a<\/span><span>s actual stewards and lapdogs of the CCP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both the NBA and Nike \u2014 with overlapping business interests \u2014 actively promote the Black Lives Matter campaign and associated organizations through advocacy and direct funding.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy emphasized, \u201cIt took courage&nbsp;for [Kanter] to be able to defect from that, and call on LeBron James and Phil Knight to be able to step up and say, actually, do you want to be a lap dog of the CCP, or do you actually want to be somebody who acts by the courage of your convictions as you profess to do when you\u2019re criticizing microscopic injustice here in the United States?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou take a microscope to \u2014 literally \u2014 they call them \u2018microaggressions\u2019 for a reason, while ignoring the actual macroaggressions in China,\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Breitbart News Daily&nbsp;<\/em>podcast is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/breitbart-news-daily-podcast-ep-6-build-back-biden-republicans-rescue-joes-agenda-with-infrastructure-bill-guest-amanda-milius\/\">available<\/a>&nbsp;for listening and download via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Woke, Inc. Author: Harder for Enes Kanter to Stand Against China than for \u201cConformist\u201d Kaepernick to Kneel During Anthem<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA\u2019s Enes Kanter displays \u201ccourage\u201d in his critiques of China and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick conform to leftist corporate orthodoxies, Vivek &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}