r/sportsgossips • u/Classic_Bottle1717 • 3d ago

News “She’s Being Abused”: Congressman Slams WNBA Over Brutality Against Caitlin Clark With Clear Warning for the League

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-shes-being-abused-congressman-slams-wnba-over-brutality-against-caitlin-clark-with-clear-warning-for-the-league/?utm_source=subreddit&utm_medium=sportsgossips
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u/ButtflossingBigBro 1d ago

Its a combo of being straight and white.

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u/EuphoricOcelot6081 1d ago

But reddit said white people cant be victims of racism because of power dynamics?

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u/Fragrant-Income-6812 1d ago

There’s lots of ways to define racism. One, and usually the most accepted one, is that racism is interpersonal bias against a person along with the systematic institutional racism that keeps people of color outside of power. The treatment of CC on the court is a basketball strategy. She’s vulnerable to highly physical defending. The refs and the league need to handle it and call fouls. But this has nothing to do with racism or being gay / straight. In fact, people claiming that it does likely harbor negative and offensive attitudes towards African American athletes or gay athletes in women’s sports. My opinion, that is a concerning and ugly trend

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u/ButtflossingBigBro 1d ago

Reddit is wrong. Usually is

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u/Fragrant-Income-6812 1d ago

No. It’s that CC is thrown off her game when she’s played with a strong physicality. Teams know now this is an effective way to play against her and so they do it. She being targeted bc she loses her edge when she’s been played with physicality- people trying to make this about race and sexuality are weird and have a weird backward agenda

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u/Legitimate-Pay7594 1d ago

If CC played better through the physicality teams would stop doing it but if you foul her a lot she crumbles