Where’s Quality Control?

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The Guardian hosts another snotty bashing of Sophie Cunningham.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right’s anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark.

The writer is one Howard Bryant, who is in the US and has written several pieces for the Guardian. He seems to be simply lying about the “anti-Black” part. Google turns up nothing about Cunningham and “anti-Black”. He cites one guy writing about Fauci, and then pivots via Trump.

Apropos of nothing, President Trump publicly surmised that LeBron James might be a racist. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right’s anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark.

What act? The fact that Trump said something idiotic about LeBron James does not support the claim that Sophie Cunningham is the right’s anti-Black culture war ambassador. It doesn’t even come close to supporting it.

Wouldn’t you think a halfway decent and/or conscious Guardian editor would have caught that? “Wait a second, Howard, you haven’t given us anything to support your claim that she’s anti-Black aka racist. Maybe it’s still in your pocket?”

Largely anonymous politically or otherwise during her eight-year career, Cunningham – she of the viral finger-point which has been adopted as a symbol of the white animosity toward the WNBA culture – is in her moment.

Why white?

Her comments in a lengthy 21 July ESPN profile stating her opposition to transgender athletes has earned her hero status of the specious “Protect Our Girls” movement, even though you’d need a microscope to find any critical mass of transgender women participating in sports at any level.

Easy for a man to say keeping men out of women’s sports is “specious”. It’s a good deal less specious when it’s your sports that are being ruined.

There’s a lot more random abuse and pseudo-profundity; it’s not worth reading.

Updating to add:

Ex-actly.

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8 responses to “Where’s Quality Control?”

  1. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    The reasoning appears to follow a template seen everywhere lately. When a person opposes trans women’s inclusion in female spaces:

    – Conservatives also oppose trans women in women’s spaces

    – This person is conservative!

    – Conservatives are often racist

    – This person is racist!

    And that’s it.

    Meanwhile, the author puts his disdain for women out in the open:

    The former tennis star Anna Kournikova never won a WTA tournament – not a single one – yet everyone knew her name. Blonde and perky will do that.

    What a wanker.

  2. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Holms, he also puts his lack of sporting knowledge out in the open. The Kournikova and Martina Hingis doubles partnership won the WTA Championship twice, and were also Grand Slam winners twice.

    There is also another rather convoluted – and completely illogical- way that the TRA’s link gender critics to racism that goes ‘if you change “trans” to “people of colour” in your calls for exclusion it would be racist, therefore being anti-trans is exactly the same as being racist.’

  3. Colin Day Avatar
    Colin Day

    TBF, he did say a single one.

  4. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    He did, but there is no ‘single’ category, they’re always in the plural: Women’s Singles, Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, Men’s Doubles, and Mixed Doubles.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    It’s pretty blatant libel, really. If there’s literally nothing to back up the “anti-Black” claim, then…it’s libelous.

    [Bryant’s piece, I mean.]

  6. twiliter Avatar
    twiliter

    He is very focused on race. He assaulted his wife in 2011 in public, in front of witnesses. Another sports “journalist.”

    Race card much?</a

  7. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    There’s a lot of racist commentary around the WNBA, and much of it has centered on Caitlin Clark, who’s been treated as something of a white savior. I haven’t seen any evidence that she or Sophie Cunningham are racist, but they’re certainly the darlings of a certain class of racists.

    But this is so typical of the trans narrative, riding the coattails of a truly oppressed class (gays and lesbians, women, Blacks) to claim victimhood for themselves. And too many progressives are taken in.

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    THAT. Riding the coattails of a truly oppressed class – that’s it exactly.

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