Whitlock: The Vanderbilt Publicity Stunts Explain China’s War On America’s Competitive Spirit

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Whitlock: The Vanderbilt Publicity Stunts Explain China’s War On America’s Competitive Spirit
Outkick
Dec. 9, 2020

China’s ban on Twitter might be its single greatest advantage over the United States of America.

Social media has accelerated America’s transition from a competition-based society to an attention-based one.

This acceleration can be most easily seen in the sports world.  ...

Attention, not competition, is becoming the point of sports.

This week, Sports Illustrated named five “activists” athletes sportspersons of the year. NBA star LeBron James, NFL star Patrick Mahomes, WNBA player Breanna Stewart, tennis star Naomi Osaka and retired NFL lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.

I’m a Chiefs fan. Mahomes and Duvernay-Tardif are/were Chiefs players. Mahomes is my favorite athlete at the moment. Mahomes’ activism comes down to fronting a couple of Black Lives Matter commercials and tweeting in solidarity with LeBron. ...

China doesn’t care about American winners. It cares about the athletes and entertainers who can bring the most attention to its anti-American propaganda campaign.   ...

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Most pro athletes who support BLM and ignore China are too stupid to know that they are being played.
LeBron James is not exactly a brainiac. He's a virtue-signaling jerk who's getting a mountain of money from China while trashing his own country the one that  made him famous and half a billionaire before he's forty.