Golden State Warriors Co-Owner: “Nobody Cares About What’s Happening To The Uyghurs” In China

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With the 2020 Winter Olympics in Beijing just 18 days away and U.S. diplomats boycotting the games over what a spokesperson for the U.S.

Embassy in Beijing recently called China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, and other human rights abuses,” one of the most outspoken owners of one of the NBA’s flagship franchises weighed in.Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, who is a minority owner of the Golden State Warriors alongside majority owners Peter Guber and Joe Lacob, expressed what he called “a very hard, ugly truth” about China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority-muslim population in the Xinjiang autonomous region.“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.

You bring it up because you really care, and I think that’s nice that you care, the rest of us don’t care,” Palihapitiya said. “I’m telling you a very hard, ugly truth, okay?

Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line.”Warriors’ PR issued a statement calling Palihapitiya “a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the Warriors.” It went on to say that he “does not speak on behalf of our franchise and his views certainly don’t reflect those of our organization.”The context of the remark is a conversation between Palihapitiya and his co-hosts, tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis and early Google employee David Friedberg, about President Biden’s popularity and policies.After Calacanis praised Biden’s China policy Palihapitiya said, “I think we have a responsibility to take care of our own backyard first.”Calacanis responded that the United States is far from perfect, but argued a comparison with the state of human rights in China doesn’t hold water.“The what-aboutism that you’re proposing is so