{"id":40869,"date":"2022-01-20T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/sport-is-indifferent-to-the-uyghur-genocide-the-warriors-investor-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:00:05","slug":"sport-is-indifferent-to-the-uyghur-genocide-the-warriors-investor-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40869","title":{"rendered":"Sport is indifferent to the Uyghur genocide: the Warriors investor said the quiet part out loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has owned the inside track on the sports world\u2019s most coveted growth market, with operations worth about $5bn<\/p>\n<p>The US state department has described the Uyghur human rights issue as a genocide and the largest-scale detention of an ethno-religious community since the second world war. And yet to hear one leading professional sports owner tell it, \u201cnobody cares\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chamath Palihapitiya, a billionaire investor in the NBA\u2019s Golden State Warriors, used the most recent episode of his All-In podcast to weigh in, dismissing the Uyghur crisis as \u201ca very hard, ugly truth\u201d that\u2019s \u201cbelow my line\u201d. When his co-host David Sacks countered that the Uyghurs were a great, if not pressing, concern, Palihapitiya dug in: \u201cIf you\u2019re asking me do I care about a segment of a class of people in another country? Not until we can take care of ourselves will I prioritise them over us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/sport-is-indifferent-to-the-uyghur-genocide-the-warriors-investor-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has owned the inside track on the sports world\u2019s most coveted growth market, with operations worth about $5bnThe US state department has described the Uyghur human rights issue as a genocide and the largest-scale detention of an ethno-religious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2313,50,203,1857,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-china","category-sport","category-us-sports","category-uyghurs","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions\/40870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}