WTH is going on with the genocide Olympics? NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom on the Beijing games, his fight for human rights, and why so many choose money over morals
What the Hell Is Going On
AEI Podcasts
4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As the Olympics continue in Communist China alongside Beijing’s continued genocide against the Uighurs, all too few have been willing to call out the tyrants and abusers. Democratic freedoms are under assault from Xinjiang to Ankara to Tehran to Moscow. But the powerful have been strangely reticent. Enes Kanter Freedom, a human rights advocate and center for the Boston Celtics, has committed himself to being a voice for freedom and human rights around the world, calling out injustices despite threats against him and his family.
Enes Kanter Freedom joined Marc and Dany to discuss his human rights activism, using his platform to call out injustice, those trying to keep him silent, and why so many people choose their money over their morals.
Enes Kanter Freedom, originally from Turkey, is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics and a human rights advocate. A center, Freedom has played for five NBA teams since entering the league in 2011. In 2021, Freedom officially became a US citizen and legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom at the same time to mark the occasion.
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| 0:00.0 | What the hell's going on? |
| 0:01.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:03.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:04.1 | I don't know what the hell he's talking about. |
| 0:05.8 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:07.7 | What hell's the matter with these guys? |
| 0:09.2 | We don't know what's going on. |
| 0:11.0 | What hell's going on? |
| 0:12.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. I am Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:31.8 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:33.8 | What the hell is going on is the genocide games are taking place in Beijing. |
| 0:38.1 | I don't know why more people don't use that expression. It is the fastest reminder to people |
| 0:43.0 | that while people are busy doing the biathlon in one part of the country, other people are |
| 0:49.8 | being murdered in concentration camps and another. Yep. Well, the genocide games are happening. |
| 0:54.7 | We're in the middle of them right now. |
| 0:56.5 | And the corporate sponsors are busy advertising and making money. |
| 1:01.2 | NBC is making lots of money. |
| 1:03.1 | And somebody tried to get into the advertising game. |
| 1:05.8 | Our friend and recidivist guest, Congressman Mike Waltz, and another great American, and I'm glad to be |
| 1:11.8 | able to call him a fellow American, Ennis Cantor Freedom, put up an ad and submitted it to NBC |
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