Caitlin Clark Last comment The issue of benefiting from white privilege in the WNBA has sparked hostile discussions online since it was published in Time magazine on Tuesday. Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick host Riley Gaines participated in her latest online debate with a left-wing figure.
This time, Gaines confronted journalist Jemele Hill, who was… Strong critic Clark and those who give the WNBA phenomenon credit for raising the league's profile.
Hill threw the first jab at Gaines, re-sharing a post on X in which the former swimmer criticized Clarke over the comments.
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“You scream all the time about supporting and 'protecting' women, and yet, the moment Caitlin Clark expresses her appreciation and respect for the Black women in the WNBA (whom she grew up watching and worshiping), suddenly you act like a 'frustrated parent,'” Hill wrote.
Gaines quickly responded in response to Hill's post by mocking the idea of ”white privilege” in the WNBA.
“'White privilege' in the WNBA is literally laughable. Maybe you're like Sunny Hostin and think CC also has a long privilege, a beautiful privilege, and a straight privilege,” Gaines wrote. “There are a lot of black players in the WNBA that I like and respect as well, but I don't like them because they're black. I like them because of their game. That's the difference.”
Gaines then doubled down by resharing Hill's initial post with a screenshot of comments the journalist made in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in May. In that article, Hill insisted that it was “naive” to say that Clarke's race as a white person and her sexuality as a straight woman did not play a role in her popularity in the WNBA, where the vast majority of players are black and many of them are lesbian.
In that article, Hill also insisted that Clark's popularity with these qualities was “problematic.”
In response, Gaines quipped to Hill: “Being a long-time professional racing bait must be pretty stressful.”
In June, Hill said the fact that Clarke did not make the USA Paris Olympics women's basketball team was “a good thing for her” and that her exclusion “was not a snub.” Hill also criticized the media for pointing out the decline in the WNBA's playoff ratings after the Indiana Fever eliminated Clark in the first round, calling the headlines “irresponsible.”
And when Clarke made her recent comments about taking advantage of White's privilege with Time magazine, Hill published a post on X, appearing to mock fans of the player who didn't agree.
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“If you're angry about something so obvious, it's that you were never a true fan of her in the WNBA, you only liked her as long as she could be the avatar of black and queer women you hate,” Hill wrote on Wednesday. .
Then, after choosing to fight with Gaines about it, Hill went so far as to make it personal.
After Gaines' comment about Hill being a professional trackwoman, Hill responded with a message mocking the former swimmer over an incident when she tied with trans athlete Leah Thomas at the 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships.
“Girl, you should be thanking Leah Thomas every day of your life for helping you become famous, otherwise you would just be a respectable college swimmer that no one knew about. You wrote the book about cheating, not me,” Hill wrote.
Gaines' infamous affair with Thomas in 2022 helped ignite a national conversation about biological males competing as trans athletes against women and girls. Gaines quickly became nationally known for the incident and dedicated her platform to advocating for the protection of female athletes from transgender inclusion in competition and in locker rooms.
Gaines is also leading a lawsuit against the NCAA with other female athletes, accusing the governing body of violating their Title IX rights because of its policies on gender identity. 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.
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Additionally, Gaines did not allow Hill to comment on the slide last Thursday.
“How reactionary (and) completely misogynistic is it for Jemele Hill to ask me to thank a man for the platform I have. Thank him for what? Violating us in the locker room? Stealing a national title from a woman who deserves it? Indirectly stripping us of our dignity.” Our rights 1A? Just say you hate women,” Gaines wrote in her response.
That was the last message sent in the exchange at the time of publication.
This wouldn't be the first time Jeans has had the last word in an X debate with a left-leaning opponent.
In a September spat with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Gaines disputed the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris had done a “good job” in handling the border crisis.
Gaines ended up having the last word in that discussion, as Cuban did not respond to Gaines' thread when she brought up that Harris' proposed border bill included funding for Ukraine and Israel and that more than 320,000 migrant children were lost crossing the border during Harris' handling of the border.
Gaines also had a viral roast for the MP. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezD.N.Y. On November 14, after it was discovered that the congresswoman had removed pronouns from her resume
Gaines targeted Harris herself after the losing presidential candidate posted a surprise video to her supporters on social media.
“Now do you understand why you didn't go to Joe Rogan lol,” Gaines wrote.
All of Gaines' quarrels with liberal figures were met with significant participation from her followers.
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