Adrian Wojnarowski suspended by ESPN, sparking #FreeWoj push

worcester wrote:Bob, the context you provided on Woj flipping off Senator Hawley is quite incomplete. I suggest you and others read the following transcript of an interview with the Senator by Hugh Hewitt.

https://www.hughhewitt.com/senator-josh-hawley-on-woj-the-nbas-page-six-gossip-columnist-and-espn-and-the-ccp/?highlight=Senator%20Hawley

I do not want to provoke a big back and forth discussion on this issue, but I do want members of this board to inform themselves more fully on this issue which is my purpose for providing this link.

On a personal note, I have studied and practiced traditional Chinese Medicine since 1970. My entire professional life has been involved with and guided by Chinese people, whom I love. However, I have serious issues with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)- which - by the way - in 1993 officially recognized me for outstanding contributions to the field of traditional Chinese medicine and in 2000 invited me to Bejing to treat General Huang Chuan Gui Jian Le, at the time the most famous General in the entire Army of the People's Republic of China.

The CCP is responsible for much of the spread of Covid-19 throughout the world. Had the CCP acted responsibly, the spread of the virus would have been greatly curtailed, but my beef with the CCP is even more personal. In 2000, while in Beijing, I met and started a romantic relationship with an extraordinary woman, Dr. Buzaynap Haxim, a doctor of traditional Uyghur medicine and Ph.D. geneticist. She told me horrific stories of what was being done to her Uyghur people back then, BEFORE the real repression started. Thereafter, she and over a million Uyghur's were rounded up and placed in slave labor concentration camps and have been held incommunicado for the past 18 years!!!! None of my many attempts to reconnect with her have been successful, and I have been told by international Uyghur rights agencies that my very attempts to communicate with her have probably resulted in her being repressed even more, since the CCP wants to severely limit communication from any Uyghurs who have any contacts in the outside world.


From my deeply studied perspective, the CCP is a criminal organization severely limiting the rights of millions of minority peoples in China as well as Han Chinese. It is akin to the Nazi Party of Germany in the 20's, 30's, and 40's. The NBA's relationship with CCP controlled China, though extremely profitable, exposes the NBA to questions about its own value structure. Senator Hawley asks important questions about the nature of that relationship which all NBA fans should consider, especially those of us who are concerned about social justice.

worcester wrote:Bad government. Great people.