Caitlin Clark's White Privilege

And the new TSA propaganda film.

There’s an awful lot to unpack with Caitlin Clark being named Time magazine’s Athlete of the Year. The least of which, if you’re under forty you don’t know what Time is, and if you’re over forty you didn’t know Time still exists. At least they’ll have a few more clickbait moments in the sun before throwing in the towel and their CEO walking with fifty-million bucks.

I read the piece on Clark, which is riddled with infuriating doublespeak from the jump. It has the potential to make you go insane.

First, they press the insane notion that Clark is the all-time leading scorer in both Men’s and Women’s college basketball, having allegedly bested Pete Marovich’s long-standing points record.

The idea is absurd. Women play with a noticeably smaller ball. Same sized hoop. So, it’s easier for the ball to go in. I don’t understand why women feel the need for these condescending protections, but if a female golfer were allowed to sink putts into a cup the size of a five-gallon Home Depot bucket and claim a certain score under par I’d hope there would be an asterisk next to that score, yet I believe the media would laud the chick for shooting twenty under without thinking twice.

Also, Maravich was playing against infinitely better players. If Clark is to be given credit for beating his record, it should be noted she was playing in a segregated league. Is the implication that she’s an equal player to Pistol Pete, or comparable? He would have scored two-hundred points per game playing against Clark’s competition. Are we not at all concerned with reason here, just feelings?

This all seems like a rather disingenuous way of legitimizing women’s sports. I have never heard anyone say that LeBron is the all-time leading scorer in both the NBA and WNBA. That would come off as irrelevant, would it not?

The apologist attitude continues in the Time piece with the writer, Sean Gregory, miserating that the WNBA has been, “… neglected for far too long over its 27-year history.”

The WNBA has never made a profit in its twenty-seven-year history. It was created by the NBA Board of Governors as a marketing campaign to boost the popularity of women’s basketball, which, in turn, would garner more attention for the NBA. It is a loss-leader.

To say it suffers from neglect misses the entire point that it wouldn’t exist in the first place were it not a charity.

Of course, the league saw record revenue last year for the most part thanks to Clark’s popularity. While it remains to be seen if it will ever be in the black, especially if you count the decades of its hemorrhaging money, it looks like the league might finally be on a sustainable path, but that remains to be seen.

Still, the indignancy of moaning about neglect seems comparable to your loser brother-in-law who’s been crashing in your basement for the past ten years finally securing a job at Popeye’s and then demanding you buy him a king-sized bed for all of his troubles.

To cap off the walk through this room of carnival mirrors that is this entire exercise, Clark decides to invoke her white privilege, stating straightforwardly, “I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege.”

Do the right thing then. Retire immediately and give your money to the NAACP. Alternatively, zip it. You can’t have it both ways.