On February 24, the stag played the heat at home. Originally, it was just an insignificant regular season for both players to “return to their souls” after the all-star holiday, but for Miles Leonard, this was probably the most important milestone in his career, not one of them.
After being “exiled” by NBA for two years, he returned with a short ten days and got the chance to play officially on this day.
Only after the score was completely opened in the second half did he have a chance to score. The goal in the first sports battle was three points.
The talent of a big white man like him can only be regarded as ordinary in NBA. It is not easy to start in the finals and get a renewal of tens of millions of annual salary in the chance of getting ahead. But I didn’t expect that this career was just a little better, because a word was almost ruined.
It was after the 2020-21 season when he just renewed the heat and didn’t get the chance to show his hands and feet. He was reimbursed for the season due to shoulder injury. During the long period of recuperation, live games became one of his ways to kill time. The popularity of his live studio was never high, nor did he intend to make money by live streaming, but unexpectedly, according to his words, his life was almost completely destroyed because of live streaming.
On March 8, 2021, he was broadcasting “Call of Duty” live, shooting a series of dirty words in a fierce place, one of which was a bad word “kike. Even though leonard was not popular, his speech spread on a small scale and got the attention of the heat and NBA in just one day.
By march 9th, leonard, who didn’t seem to know the severity of the problem, continued to broadcast the live. As a result, the game had not been broadcast, and a dozen urgent calls came in. He didn’t know how much he had stabbed.
Leonard received a call in the live broadcast.
It was also on this day that the Heat announced the penalty for Leonard’s indefinite ban and 50000 dollars. NBA spokesman Mike Buss said: “NBA clearly condemned some forms of hate speech.” Xiao Hua also immediately issued a statement saying: “Leonard’s remarks are unforgivable and hurtful. Such words have no place in our society.”
Yes, NBA’s characterization of Leonard is hate speech.
Let’s talk about the meaning of the word “kike” first. It is the evolution of Hebrew “circle. According to the textual research of the American Jewish Committee, this word is that when Jewish immigrants first came to ESRI island in the United States to avoid disasters, they would draw circles instead of cross marks in the entry materials, which is a kind of religious taboo. However, in the evolution of american racial culture, “circle” soon became an insulting address to the jewish nation, similar to the “N word” that humiliated blacks “.
For Leonard, unfortunately, the Heat boss Mickey Alison was Jewish, and the Heat had a very close relationship with the local Jewish community in Miami. Only one week after the incident, the Heat traded him to thunder, and he was laid off by Thunder one week after that, so far he lost his job.
Coincidentally, when he finally returned to the league, NBA had just got rid of an anti-Semitic farce that made countless people tired. The main character was our Kelly Owen. Comparing the disputes and encounters between them, we can’t help but find many interesting points.
The timeline of Owen’s anti-Semitic incident is much better than Leonard’s.
On October 27 last year, owen shared a film promoting anti-semitism on the internet, including accusing jews of fabricating ethnic origins and even denying the real existence of the nazi holocaust. Owen did not make any comments when sharing.
On October 28, Rolling Stone took the lead in reporting this matter. Cai Chongxin responded on the same day, saying that he was very disappointed with Owen, but the characterization of Owen’s behavior was “promoting anti-Semitic false information”.
Disinformation (false information) is obviously not as serious as Hate speech (Hate speech), but our Owen has some ways to upgrade the situation.
Owen shares anti-Semitism films
On October 29, NBA issued an official statement condemning all forms of hate speech, but even Owen’s name was not mentioned. It was also on this day that Owen finally responded. Instead of repentance, Owen intensified and not only continued to support the film, he also supported Alex Jones, the notorious rightwing conspiracy theorist (who claimed that the American campus shooting was fabricated by the victim’s parents and was almost bankrupt).
Owen said at that time, “the historical truth should not be hidden…… I will not shrink back because of my faith. I am not alone, so I will only be stronger. I have a huge army around me.” He also quarreled with an ESPN reporter, because the other party decided that he was promoting anti-Semitism when he forwarded the film, and he accused the other party of “personalizing” him “.
October 31 and November 1 were both basketable Nets match days, probably fearing that he would offend more people at the press conference. After that, basketable Nets did not allow reporters to interview Owen. On November 1st, the players’ union published the figure for the first time, condemning anti-Semitism, but still did not mention Owen’s name.
As we all know, Owen is one of the Vice Presidents of the Union.
On November 2, Owen and basketable Nets announced that they would donate 500000 dollars to the Jewish non-governmental organization Anti-Defamation alliance. Owen said in the statement that he had understood the “negative impact” of his words and deeds on the Jewish community, and he was willing to take responsibility for it. Interestingly, at this time Owen began to emphasize that he did not agree with “all views” of the film “.
However, Owen still did not apologize, nor did he explain what he did not agree with the views of the film. Therefore, on November 3, the “anti-defamation alliance” rejected Owen’s donation.
It can be said that compared with Leonard’s speed of light being laid off by qualitative trading, basketable nets, NBA and even the whole society have given Owen enough window period of “letting bullets fly for a while” since the incident, but his attitude is obviously to refuse to cooperate, which means to fight with the alliance, mainstream society and values.
But even at this point, NBA’s handling of Owen is still tolerant. Xiao Hua (Jewish) spoke out on November 3, saying that he was willing to meet with Owen to discuss the matter. He said Owen was a “reckless decision” to forward the film because it contained “extremely offensive anti-Semitic content”.
Funny, half an hour after Xiao Hua tried to ease the situation, Owen spoke again in training: “I didn’t want to hurt anyone. I didn’t shoot that film.”
Indeed, since Owen sent that tweet, there has been a saying that makes people’s blood pressure rise, that is, “Why bully Owen a black man, how can no one dare to find the trouble of Amazon, the capitalist who hung up this movie”. When Owen was asked by the reporter whether he supported anti-Semitism, he answered indifferently: “I support the equality of all living beings. If I understand my origin, it is impossible to be anti-Semitic.”
After the two met, Xiao Hua continued to defend Owen in the interview: “There is no doubt that he is definitely not an anti-Semitic, he just needs to go through some process.”
In the end, Owen still did not answer “yes” or “no” clearly “. Tsai Chongxin had enough anyway. Basketable Nets quickly issued a ban, saying Owen with this attitude was not suitable to stay in the team. Owen saw the alliance moved the truth and finally apologized publicly, saying that he did not mean to discredit Jewish cultural history and deny the Nazi Holocaust. But it was too late to make up for it. Nike dismissed the contract with him the next day.
However, even at this point, Owen still got the firm support of the players. In basketable nets, Owen must complete a series of remedial measures to return to the team, including meeting with Jewish leaders and receiving counseling. This attracted the protest of the players’ union. Vice chairman jay brown said, “the conditions set for owen to return to the team are too harsh in my opinion, and many players are dissatisfied.”
On November 8th, NBA finally arranged a meeting between Owen and Xiao Hua, and later with Cai Chongxin and his wife. The purpose was to guarantee Owen and help Owen speak well.
On November 11, LeBlanc James made a voice on Twitter, calling for the end of the ban on Owen, saying that since Owen had apologized, he should not hold on to this matter. The players’ union continued to exert pressure. Brown also criticized Nike on social networks as a “immoral” enterprise and urged the public to keep their eyes open, take a good look at who these hypocritical bosses in NBA are “doing business with”, which is basically equal to public threats, a posture that is not willing to die.
James: almost come on, Owen has apologized and should let him play
On november 13, owen finally heard again after ten days, saying that he was unwilling to participate in any “religious/political war” and did not want to trigger racial disputes and prejudices between any groups. He began to cooperate with the counseling work of basketable nets, accepted an exclusive interview with The New York media, apologized again, and said that he had contacted some Jewish community leaders. So far, the Owen incident will not continue to ferment. A week later, he made his debut against the grizzly bear in basketable nets.
On February this year, basketable Nets traded Owen to Lone Ranger. At his first press conference, the reporter was still asking him why he deleted the apology tweet.
The original apology deleted by Owen
Owen’s situation seemed to be his “persecution” against his imaginary power machine with his neck “. He did not say anything when he sent the message of that film, but it seemed that he said everything.
Compared with Leonard, who lost his job in two weeks, the fundamental reason for Owen’s treatment is that he is the top black superstar in NBA, while Leonard is only a white role player. Owen was not abandoned by the basketable nets transaction, but his active choice.
Kuban, the boss of the lone ranger, was the patrilineal ancestor who immigrated from russia to esri island to draw circles and cast off his former identity. He said that he had been used to american anti-semitic culture since childhood, but I still believe Owen is not a bad person.
Cuban is a wise man. His tolerance is about to understand that owen’s obstinacy is actually out of simple mind, and the spirit of resistance and struggle is used in the wrong place. It is said that young people need a good mentor, and Owen was chosen as the top star by the Knight. Thinking carefully about the trend of his NBA career, he may have deviated from the established route from the beginning.
Moreover, the united states is indeed a country that advocates all winners (but the jungle law is not enough). In any industry, the more the pyramid goes up, the more so it is, looking at the scandal of Lone Ranger, we also know that Cuban himself is the beneficiary of this rule.
As the only Jewish player in active service, no one cares about afdia’s voice.
The top of the NBA team with Jewish ancestry may not be able to count the two hands, but most of them may not really feel offended. However, Leonard’s status was too low, and the anti-Semitic scandal and injuries made him just become an abandoned son. It may be more difficult to expel a star like Owen from the league than to expel a boss. He is the cornerstone of the team, and every match will remind the fans of the whole city of his absence.
Another important reason is that Owen has the strong support of players Leonard cannot get. Not in advance of his teammates (this anti-Semitic dispute is gone) thinking about him-when all stars choose him as a baby, he also claimed that “I am really proud of him”-Owen’s foundation in the players’ union was beyond Leonard’s comparison.
Besides, before the anti-Semitic scandal, Leonard also had a dispute. He participated in the “black life is also life” movement throughout the league. When he knelt down to protest against the national anthem of the United States before every match, he just refused to kneel down. Considering the labor union’s keen participation in BLM at that time, his attitude would definitely alienated a large number of colleagues.
White people who refuse to kneel down for the black life
The blow to Leonard abandoned by the alliance was hard to describe in words. Anyway, he still couldn’t bear tears when he mentioned it so far. Direct retirement is not a way, but he said: “Escape is the choice of cowards.”
His choice was to cheer up and face the double blow of body and spirit. He didn’t even stay away from Miami, which was sad. Instead, he showed the greatest sincerity to contact and understand the Jewish nation, under the introduction of the high prestige rabbi, he met with the old man who survived the massacre, listened to his experience of escaping Auschwitz, and then hid his face and sobbed.
He also held meetings with representatives of the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations, visited the local memorial hall in Miami, talked with Jewish students, and tried his best to support their communities. Even if it was hot to deal with him, he kept in touch with these organizations in Miami, and now he plans to continue this career in Milwaukee.
Leonard has been doing public welfare in the Jewish community so far.
Even if these behaviors have the elements of public relations and show, the positive social influence brought by them is real. However, Owen claimed that he saw this and saw it. Anyway, until he resumed the competition, the head of the “Anti-Defamation League” had never seen him. No matter how much trouble and harm his behavior caused, Owen was so light to pass.
Leonard didn’t have such good luck, but anyway, he has recovered and got forgiveness.
Returning to NBA (Beijing time yesterday, he just won the second 10-day contract renewal) was his regretful opportunity, and he could afford the expectation and blessing of this journey.
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