Jaylen and his Anti-Semitic Friends (split)

[ozgod]

I just saw this -
https://nypost.com/2022/11/25/black-hebrew-israelites-descend-on-barclays-we-are-the-real-jews/

Yeah.  There are roughly 450 players in the NBA, and Brown is the only one who complimented that group.  And, he left the tweet up, without saying anything negative about the BHIs.

That's a lesson in how not to handle social media.  Brogdon and Grant Williams are both VPs in the player's association.  They managed not to step in it.

Hopefully, this is behind Jaylen.  The team doesn't need the distraction, nor does Brown as he seeks a spot on the All-NBA team.

Not only that, doubling down just made it so much worse. If he had deleted his tweet and posted another one to support Cryrie the whole thing is finished. But like Cryrie he decided to take an adversarial approach with the media, accusing them of misrepresenting his views with his mangos and oranges thing. There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom, I think JB's a very intelligent young man but might be lacking in wisdom a bit still. But those are things you learn through life experiences and hopefully this taught him that you can defend your friends, fulfill your role representing the players while still not getting involved in controversial things that take the focus away from that support.

[timpiker]

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-723328

[Roy H.]

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-723328

Yeah, Farrakhan is the biggest spreader of this particular rhetoric.  He didn't plant this poisonous tree, but he has groomed it.

[timpiker]

I knew this was a thing but I never thought it was this big of a THING.  Makes me wonder. 

[jmen788]

As a Jewish person, I am awfully impressed by the amount of folks talking out about antisemitism on here. I am genuinely curious if more than half of the posters are Jewish themselves on here. An anonymous poll is probably a bad idea because if many were, probably it'd make this place a target of bigots.

[Moranis]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-hitler-alex-jones-b2237179.html

[Vermont Green]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-hitler-alex-jones-b2237179.html

Kanye has gone totally off the rails.  I don't understand what he is trying to prove.  It is almost like being in your face anti-woke is now a badge of honor.  That to resist woke'ism by saying Hitler wasn't all bad or that Jews are really some evil religious sect that is out to get Christians is somehow speaking truth against those that are trying to hold him down.

Seems absolutely crazy to me.  How does someone like him get so far out there.

[dannyboy35]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-hitler-alex-jones-b2237179.html

Kanye has gone totally off the rails.  I don't understand what he is trying to prove.  It is almost like being in your face anti-woke is now a badge of honor.  That to resist woke'ism by saying Hitler wasn't all bad or that Jews are really some evil religious sect that is out to get Christians is somehow speaking truth against those that are trying to hold him down.

Seems absolutely crazy to me.  How does someone like him get so far out there.

    It is crazy. The dude is mentally ill. I can’t get to upset about a guy like this because he’s THAT out there. People that aren’t “nuts”  but spread hate get to me more. But it really stinks he has so much influence.

[Kernewek]

As a Jewish person, I am awfully impressed by the amount of folks talking out about antisemitism on here. I am genuinely curious if more than half of the posters are Jewish themselves on here. An anonymous poll is probably a bad idea because if many were, probably it'd make this place a target of bigots.

Not Jewish myself, but that shouldn't stop folks from speaking up about things.

At this point I just feel bad for Kanye.

[mef730]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-hitler-alex-jones-b2237179.html

Kanye has gone totally off the rails.  I don't understand what he is trying to prove.  It is almost like being in your face anti-woke is now a badge of honor.  That to resist woke'ism by saying Hitler wasn't all bad or that Jews are really some evil religious sect that is out to get Christians is somehow speaking truth against those that are trying to hold him down.

Seems absolutely crazy to me.  How does someone like him get so far out there.

He's gotten addicted to being the talk of the town. Doesn't matter to him whether the publicity is good.

Mike

[Moranis]

When you are doing an interview with Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones, and you look like the crazy one, you've got some real problems.  But mental illness, doesn't make you a racist anti-semitic a**hole either.  That is all on him and no one should feel sorry for him. 

[celticsclay]

Hopefully Kanye’s outburst today serves to make kyrie want to really distance himself from these “interesting concepts” Kanye raised. Same for jaylen and Lebron.

[gouki88]

When you are doing an interview with Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones, and you look like the crazy one, you've got some real problems.  But mental illness, doesn't make you a racist anti-semitic a**hole either.  That is all on him and no one should feel sorry for him.

Absolutely. I know plenty lovely, tolerant people with mental health concerns.

Kanye is just a neo-Nazi who happens to have them too.

[Roy H.]

JB interview with "Scoop" Robinson:

https://www.ballysports.com/national/news/jaylen-brown-discusses-his-all-star-status-jayson-tatum-and-lebron-on-jerry-jone

Thankfully, nothing about Kyrie.  He talked about the importance of the community, his 7uice brand, Lebron's comments about Jerry Jones (which JB appropriately side-stepped), and most importantly, how awesome the Celtics are.

One thing that stood out:

You grew up in Marietta, Georgia. You went to college at Cal and then got drafted by the Boston Celtics. That’s a move from the South, to the West and then the Northeast. What have you learned from being in the city of Boston?

Where do I start? I am learning a LOT, man. When I first got here I was like, a little intimidated and didn’t know a lot about Boston, and I had a lot of amazing families reach out to me — one family was the Wahlbergs. I was booed when I first got drafted here — a lot of people don’t talk about that — so when I first got here, you know, I didn’t feel welcomed. But it’s easy to look at the negativity and see the positivity that’s here in Boston. There’s a lot of great families, a lot of great people doing great work, and they’re here tonight at the annual gala and we’re celebrating that energy. Sometimes, the negative outweighs the positive in society, so we’re going to flip it: THE POSITIVE OUTWEIGHS THE NEGATIVE.

I know many fans wanted to go in different directions with that #3 pick, but were fans actually booing him?  Was it more than a handful at games?  I don't think I went to any games JB's rookie year, but if a young kid was getting booed, that's just stupid.  That first year experience could be why Brown is still liking posts on social media that mention the Boston fans in a negative manner.

I don't like booing the home team in general unless there's clear lack of effort, but that's especially true of rookies, and raw rookies at that.  Message boards and social media are different; if you go on somebody else's page and see their criticism of you, of well.  But players don't need to have their confidence shattered by the home fans if they're struggling.

[Sophomore]

I remember fans booing the pick when he got drafted. Wyc said it’s the most negative reaction to a pick he can remember.

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2020/06/04/jaylen-brown-protests-stats-commentary/

From the article:

Fans — perhaps you among them — booed the pick when it was announced at a party for season ticket-holders. Owner Wyc Grousbeck, who before the draft had promised “fireworks,” was booed when he addressed fans about the pick. “Fourteen years [as an owner], that’s probably the worst [reaction] I’ve gotten,” Grousbeck said at the time. “But I’ll view this as people really care.”