A number of fans have seemingly turned against Caitlin Clark after the WNBA star liked Taylor Swift's Instagram post endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
They are making it clear: announce your support for Harris, get harassed.
They don't want you to vote unless you support their candidate. They don't want you to speak unless it's hate speech or you support their candidate. They don't want you to exist unless you exist the way they want you to exist. It's Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid's Tale.
Total tangent here, but I have a lot of cognitive dissonance around Butker. I mean I call him Butt Kicker. He's an amazing athlete but has gross political ideas and power.
What's dumber, I was upset to hear Brittany Mahomes passively endorsed Project 2025. I wasn't terribly surprised that's her stance, but seeing her confirm it and quickly backtrack with petty bullshit just. Ugh. Meanwhile, our other star players Kelce and Mahomes are keeping their mouths shut as Swift is taking heat. Idfk. Just a bunch of drama that makes me feel like I'm back in high school, but the stakes are much, much higher.
One thing the article doesn't mention, is Caitlin Clark's place as a white woman in a sport dominated by black athletes, and the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown. For example, there's an under-current of racism in the drama between her and Angel Reese.
Sue Bird had similar experiences but a generation or so earlier. Of course, there was less social media when she was a young player, and a lot less focus of women's basketball. Even still, there was a lot of dog-whistle language about how, "she played the game the right way," or how, "she's an upstanding citizen." Of course, Bird eventually came out which made some of those fans leave on their own.
The racism has been coming from Reese and her camp. It is frankly embarrassing how they have been behaving. There is no reason 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league should be directed at one player. Some of those hits look like lacrosse hits.
Yes, they really are this despicable. Republicans who aren't despicable are not welcome in the party. You're either on the Trump train or you're dead to them, the Trump cultists have fully taken over the GOP.
The 22-year-old last posted on Instagram on August 18. On that post, fans questioned her decision to like Swift’s post and accused her of “caving.” Others outright claimed they would no longer support the young star.
How fragile do you have to be to behave this way? Cause this isn't what a calm and confident person would do. This is the behavior of bratty fucking children in adult costumes.
If you support stealing from me, I don't want your support.
Anyone with half a brain should realize committing fraud against a bank hurts the people who use those banks.. and insure those banks, and bail out those banks if they make bad investments, say to someone lying about the worth of their assets to lock in deals that when they are failed to be paid, like all his other bankruptcies filed, the bank is left with far less than anticipated, and then they have to raise fees/decrease interests paid out, charge higher interest rates or simply get a bail out from the Feds. All of those things effect the working class.
Either my reading comprehension is borked, or that of literally everyone downvoting and replying to this post is...
I thought you were laying out why Trump is (convicted of) stealing from banks and that she (WNBA star) wouldn't want support from people supporting that guy.
Steve Erwin voice: hee we 'ave an actual Trump Supporrta in the woild, friends. Be caaful! 'E's dangerous! Gotta be reeeeaalll quoiet around these beauts.
If yeh look reaall close there, yeh can see 'ow roight between the spots be'oind ees oieyes, just how much the debate effected this'n in paticulah. Fascinating stuff WOAH, caaful now don't get too close, Bob. That's roight.. noice an easy.
Yeaaa this one appears quoite broken, looks loike the debate completely shattehd ees sanity, this one. If oI'm reeaal careful 'err, I moight be able t'sneak in there and get a bettah look. Nice an easy, nice an easy.
I'm sorry, but let's be realistic... if she came out in support of trump she would get a lot of negative responses also. We're a pretty divided country.
True but I feel like it would be mostly civil criticism from the left rather than the threats you see on the right. Both negative feedback sure but not of the same intensity.
She just told them she's not their racist. Fuck those people for always pitting her against her colleagues of color, she never asked for that. Keep playing ball girl.
Hey, she got me watching WNBA content and I don't even watch the NBA. Mostly I just get intrigued by players people dislike for no reason, like Lamar Jackson in the NFL. Dude has won 2 MVPs and carries the Ravens offense but people just move the goal posts on him every year.
Maybe, just maybe, she was endorsing Taylor Swift’s statements regarding do your own research and make your own choice but please vote. Hard to be negative about that (unless of course your entire political party is a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic fascists lol).
Unpopular opinion: She would also be harassed if she had endorsed Trump.
EDIT: I'll admit, I got curious about what kind of comments a celeb gets on social media after endorsing Trump. Some people have said that they deserve the harassment, which is at least honest. To be totally clear, I think that Trump is uniquely evil in the modern history of America. He is a grifter and I don't see how anyone could support him or his policies. He is a racist, chauvinist, likely rapist, dangerous for our economy, physical safety, and basic rights.
My only point is that maybe we shouldn't be so quick to throw stones. Taking a political stand is risky for any celebrity, and we should be respectful of people when they do. Also, vote early.
Well, you tell me: Is this harassment?
She the first one they would throw off the wall #handmaidstale
I can't with you. Next tatoo of that big forehead, should be "Pendeja"!
PLEASE DO NOT GET YOUR POLITICAL ADVICE FROM A WOMAN OF HER KIND!
🤡🙃🤡🙃🤡
Stay over there with "your people"!
You're White wash!
FOR SURE SHE AINT BLACK
SHUT UP, B****!
No wonder Kanye dated you. 🤢🤮
Joseline was right. #Disgusting.
You are frugly.
Says the girl who has a Black mom and white dad that only rides black 🍆 🤦🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️
Did you let Trump eat you up?
🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Watching unedited videos of you, I’m wondering when did your face become so saggy??
Straight up drag man.
airhead
By those fake big teeth
You look like you have BV.
😂😂😂😂This heaux done lost her small mind
I mean I guess....he must hv really grabbed her by the 🐈!!!🤷🏽♀️😹😹
You’re 40 years old. Lay off the filters and you only on this level cause you slept with a football size team of celebrities
This is what happens when rappers get airheads off the pole and empower them.
If she did endorse Trump, the harassment would have been a magnitude less. Individuals will be individuals, but the leaders of one group are denouncing harassment and violence while the leaders of the other group are inciting it.
If she did endorse Trump, the harassment would have been a magnitude less. Individuals will be individuals, but the leaders of one group are denouncing harassment and violence while the leaders of the other group are inciting it.
I get the logic of this, but you feel pretty confident that it's true. Do you have the numbers to back this up? I believe it is true, but that's not based on any actual evidence.
Maxx Crosby from the Raiders recently posted a pic with Trump and I was disappointed, but moved on. I'm sure he caught some flack, but probably nowhere near as much as Clark has.
She can't be bothered by the entire WNBA and ESPN constantly being negative to her, these fake fan bigots and morons aren't going to do anything to her.
However these people are still weird and deplorable.
I'm so disheartened that Hulk Hogan has been a douche this whole time. As a kid, he was a super energetic friendly dude. I'm sure he is friendly in person, but his beliefs don't align with the persona that I had in mind.
2.) "Equally" is inaccurate at best, and implies that the mentally deficient still fervently rabid for his scatological spew have the capacity for rational thought. 🤷🏼♂️
Man I don't even reply to my family's political bullshit on private feeds, what makes you think I'd give 2 neurons of effort calling out a practical stranger out in public?
I'm autistic. I navigate the world with more effort, making sense of things with evidence. The evidence heavily suggests that many humans are purposefully trying to make a world which harms humans. This doesn't upset me.
So, no, I wouldn't be upset. It would just be another data point, and I would be one realisation of the moral failure of the human world closer to death.
I have never cared so strongly about something that I felt it was appropriate to harass someone via Twitter for their views on it.
I'll be negatively judging them, sure, but I'm not going to flood their DMs with death threats. That's some basement dwelling troglodyte bullshit right there.