OutKick’s Clay Travis Compares Caitlin Clark to Israel in Wild Social Media Thread: ‘Attacked by a League Filled With Black Lesbians’

Ahmad Austin Jr.Jun 14th, 2024, 3:51 pm
 
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OutKick’s Clay Travis slammed Stephen A. Smith and compared Caitlin Clark to Israel in a bizarre Twitter thread about the discourse surrounding the WNBA star.

The heated debates about Clark were taken to another level Friday in response to backlash to her comments from the day before. During a team shootaround, the 22-year-old said she wasn’t bothered by people using her to push agendas in culture war debates. Clark received harsh criticism for the stance, but later expressed her disapproval of her name being used to make racist and misogynist arguments about the WNBA and society in general.

Stephen A. Smith said on First Take that the heated debates are proof of the racial divide in America — ridiculing the “Make America Great Again” movement to get his point across.

Shortly after that segment aired, Travis took to social media to call out Smith and argue that the left is trying to make Clark out to be an “oppressor.”

“If you want a current events analogy. It’s Israel,” Travis said in the thread. “The Clark situation is far less serious, clearly, but the world view is the same. Just as the left in this country can’t see Israel as the victim — because Israelis are seen as white and Palestinians are seen as brown — identity politics doesn’t allow Clark, the straight white woman, to be attacked by a league filled with Black lesbians. Clark, the straight white woman, can only be the oppressor.

“The facts in this situation so far — Clark just wants to play basketball — breaks their world view. So they try desperately to make her the oppressor. Witness the pivot to Clark’s fans, who just want to watch her play basketball and give their money to the money losing WNBA!, are racist and sexist. She breaks their narrative.”

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