{"id":1718091,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718091"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:06:04","slug":"nets-kyrie-irving-digs-in-on-controversial-tweet-im-not-going-to-stand-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nets-kyrie-irving-digs-in-on-controversial-tweet-im-not-going-to-stand-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets\u2019 Kyrie Irving Digs In on Controversial Tweet: \u201cI\u2019m Not Going to Stand Down\u201d"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnets-kyrie-irving-digs-in-on-controversial-tweet-im-not-going-to-stand-down%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=1718091&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a testy exchange with the media Saturday night, Kyrie Irving doubled down and dug in, defending not only his recent social media posts <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/kyrie-irving-raises-eyebrows-with-tweet-to-movie-filled-with-anti-semitic-disinformation\/\">promoting a movie largely viewed as anti-Semitic<\/a>, but also older ones amplifying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Irving\u2019s posts from late this past week drew a statement from the NBA and a public rebuke from Nets owner Joe Tsai. Neither the league nor the team, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/kyrie-irving-doesnt-believe-hes-anti-semitic-not-justified\/\">convinced Irving to take down his initial post or back down in the slightest<\/a>. And after the Nets\u2019 latest loss, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/nets-reach-new-low-with-ugly-loss-to-pacers\/\">a 125-116 drubbing by the Pacers at Barclays Center<\/a>, he vowed not to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of all the judgment that people got out of me posting \u2014 without talking to me \u2014 I respect what Joe said, but there has a lot to do with not ego or pride with how proud I am be African heritage but also to be living as a free black man here in America knowing the historical complexities for me to get here,\u201d Irving said. \u201cSo I\u2019m not going to stand down on anything I believe in. I\u2019m only going to get stronger because I\u2019m not alone. I have a whole army around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irving does indeed have a huge fan base, with 17.5 million followers on Instagram and another 4.5 million on Twitter. And on Thursday he took to both platforms to promote a 2018 movie called \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.\u201d Both the film and the 2014 book it is based on are filled with anti-Semitic disinformation, including accusations of large numbers of Jewish people worshipping Satan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving\" class=\"wp-image-24457489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-4-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Kyrie Irving<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nets star shared the film\u2019s Amazon page, saying he came to it because his name \u201ctranslates in the Hebrew language as Yahweh\u201d and he had searched the e-commerce site for Yahweh. Irving confirmed having seen the film.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI watched it. I watched it and read books. I had a lot of time last year to read a lot, good and bad about the truth of our world,\u201d Irving said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he understood how many viewed it as anti-Semitic, he replied: \u201cIt\u2019s on Amazon, public platform. Whether you want to watch it or not is up to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s things being posted every day. I\u2019m no different from the next human being so don\u2019t treat me any different. You guys come in here and make up this powerful influence that I have over top of the adultery of, you cannot post that. Why not? Why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irving also defended his post from six weeks ago in which he shared to his Instagram story a 2002 video of Alex Jones decrying a \u201cNew World Order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t expect understanding from a media conglomerate group,\u201d Irving said.<\/p>\n<p>While Irving said he didn\u2019t stand by Jones\u2019 lies that the Sandy Hook school shooting was fake, he did back the conspiracy theorist\u2019s claims that a tyrannical organization is working in the shadows in the United States. It\u2019s a narrative that frequently has been connected with anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"A tired Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant (back) take a breather during the Nets&#039; 125-116 loss to the Pacers.\" class=\"wp-image-24457490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A tired Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant (back) take a breather during the Nets\u2019 125-116 loss to the Pacers.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corey Sipkin <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI do not stand by Alex Jones\u2019 position, narrative, court case that he had with Sandy Hook or any of the kids that felt like they had to relive trauma or the parents that had to relive trauma or to be dismissive to all the lives that were lost during that tragic event,\u201d Irving said. \u201cMy post was a post that Alex Jones did in the early \u201990s or late \u201990s about secret societies in America and cults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s true. I wasn\u2019t identifying with anything of being a campaignist for Alex Jones or anything. It\u2019s just here are posts \u2026 and it\u2019s funny, it\u2019s actually hilarious because out of all the things I posted that day that was the one post everyone chose to see. It just goes back to the way our world is and works. I\u2019m not here to complain about it. I just exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He exists in a world in which he claims to have been indoctrinated by an education system that fed him what he views as false history.<\/p>\n<p>During the YES broadcast of the Nets\u2019 game Saturday, commentator Richard Jefferson said: \u201cIt is disappointing, Kyrie says that he\u2019s not anti-Semitic and these things, but the tweet is still up. The tweet is still up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving\" class=\"wp-image-24457491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Kyrie-Irving-9.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Kyrie Irving<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The league released a statement that did not mention Irving \u2014 who is a players\u2019 union vice president \u2014 but which clearly condemned his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate speech of any kind is unacceptable and runs counter to the NBA\u2019s values of equality, inclusion and respect,\u201d the NBA\u2019s statement read. \u201cWe believe we all have a role to play in ensuring such words or ideas, including antisemetic ones, are challenged and refuted and we will continue working with all members of the NBA community to ensure that everyone understands the impact of their words and actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsai also offered a public rebuke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-Semitic disinformation. I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion,\u201d Tsai tweeted, then followed up with, \u201cThis is bigger than basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a testy exchange with the media Saturday night, Kyrie Irving doubled down and dug in, defending not only his recent social media posts promoting a movie largely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718091","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}