Caitlin Clark's recent comments about benefiting from white privilege in the WNBA have fueled a hostile debate online since they were published in Time magazine on Tuesday. Former NCAA swimmer and Outkick host Riley Gaines participated in the latest online debate with figures on the left.
Now, Gaines is up against journalist Jemele Hill, who has been harshly critical of Clark and other WNBA geniuses who have helped improve the league.
Hill threw the first punch at Gaines, resharing an X post in which the former swimmer criticized Clark's comments.
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“While you're always shouting about supporting and 'defending' women,” Caitlin Clark expressed gratitude and respect for the black women in the WNBA, many of whom she watched and admired. In a moment, all of a sudden you're like, 'I'm a disappointed parent,''' Hill wrote.
Gaines quickly responded to Hill's post with applause, mocking the concept of “white privilege” in the WNBA.
“'White privilege' in the WNBA is literally funny. Maybe you're like Sunny Hostin and think CC has tall privilege, pretty privilege, straight privilege.” wrote Gaines. “There are a lot of black players in the WNBA that I love (and) respect, but I don't respect them just because they're black. I respect the way they play. That’s the difference.”
Gaines then doubled down on Hill's original post by resharing it with a screenshot of the journalist's comments in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in May. In the article, Hill said that Clark's race as a white person and her sexuality as a straight woman do not affect her popularity in the WNBA, where the majority of players are black and many are lesbian. He claimed to be naive.
Hill also argued in the article that Clark's popularity due to these attributes is “problematic.”
“It must be very tiring to be a professional race baiter for so many years,” Gaines quipped to Hill.
Hill said in June that Clark's not being selected for the U.S. women's basketball team for the Paris Olympics was “a good thing for her” and that Clark's exclusion was “not meant to be disrespectful.” Hill also criticized the media for the headlines, saying they were “irresponsible” and pointing out that WNBA playoff ratings dropped after Clark's Indiana Fever were eliminated in the first round.
When Clark made his latest comments in Time magazine about benefiting from white privilege, Hill posted on X, seemingly mocking fans of the player who disagreed.
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“If you're upset about something so obvious, it means you're not a true fan of her in the WNBA. She's an avatar for black and gay women to hate. I mean, I loved her as much as I could,” Hill wrote on Wednesday. .
And after picking a fight with Gaines on the subject, Hill made it personal.
Following Gaines' comments about Hill being a professional racebaiter, Hill mocks former swimmer for what happened when she tied trans athlete Leah Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Women's Swimming Championships. I responded with a message.
“Girl, you should be grateful every day to Leah Thomas for helping you become famous. If you didn't, you'd be just another decent college swimmer that no one knows about. On Grafting You wrote the book – not me,” Hill wrote.
Gaines' infamous affair with Thomas in 2022 sparked a national conversation about biological males competing against women and girls as trans athletes. Gaines quickly gained national recognition for her case and has dedicated her career to advocating for the protection of female athletes from exclusion of transgender people in competitions and in locker rooms.
Gaines is also leading a lawsuit against the NCAA along with other female athletes, accusing the governing body of violating Title IX rights with its gender identity policies. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, details the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they learned they would have to share a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 championships in Atlanta. are.
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Additionally, Gaines did not let his comments about Hill's past slide on Thursday.
“How horribly regressive and downright misogynistic for Jemele Hill to tell me to thank the man who gave me the position I am in. What do I thank him for? Do you steal national titles from deserving women? Do you indirectly disenfranchise us? Do we have our 1A rights? Just say you hate women,” Gaines wrote in a reply.
This was the last message sent in the exchange at the time of publication.
This is not the first time Mr. Gaines has had the final say in an X debate with his left-wing opponents.
During a spat with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in September, Gaines asserted his belief that Vice President Kamala Harris had done a “good job” on the border crisis.
She brought up that Harris' proposed border bill includes funding for Ukraine and Israel, and that more than 320,000 migrant children have gone missing while crossing the border. Gaines ended the debate with the last word, as Cuban did not respond to Gaines' thread. Harris' border control.
Mr. Gaines also participated in the viral roast session of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.N.Y.). On November 14th, it was discovered that a female lawmaker had removed X's pronouns from her biography. Gaines posted multiple posts slamming Ocasio-Cortez a week after the congresswoman criticized Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware for being hostile to transgender athletes in women's sports.
Gaines took aim at Harris herself after the defeated presidential candidate posted a surprise video to her supporters on social media.
“Do you understand why she didn't appear on Joe Rogan lol?” Gaines wrote.
Every time Ms. Gaines gets into a spat with liberals, there is a fierce backlash from her supporters.
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