The woke WNBA, already embroiled in its latest self-inflicted controversy for years-long support of transgender athletes while simultaneously rejecting the bid of athletes who identity as women to play in the league, is facing yet more backlash after one user on the internet posted a video appearing to show flagrant anti-Christian and anti-white bias.
For context, the official WNBA website allows for fans to customize jerseys. Where a player’s name normally appears, buyers of the portal can opt to write in their own name or add a short phrase. When the user in the video tested the product with pro-Christian messages such as ‘Jesus is God’ and ‘Jesus Christ,’ they received an error message.
For comparison, a review of the site noticed that the reverse of the pro-Christian messages were approved. In one instance, the phrase ‘Hate Jesus’ made it through the filters. In other words, the idea of praising Jesus was rejected but while displaying overt animus toward the Messiah was not.
At the same time, Islamic-themed captions were approved in the online tests. ‘Praise Muhammed’ was allowed, as was the phrase ‘Allahu Akbar,’ meaning ‘God is great,’ though the phrase carries with it connotations of terrorism as it is often uttered while violent attacks are carried out in the name Islamic jihad, or holy war.
In the now-viral video, a user can be seen navigating the official jersey-personalization website for the WNBA jerseys. Walking through multiple examples of pro-Christian messages, he gets repeatedly denied before transitioning to several variations of pro-Muslim phrases. In addition to the anti-Christian bias that exists, he also noted a blatant anti-white one as well.
“All right, guys. I’m on the official WNBA store website, as you can see from the URL, and I am going to customize a jersey, which it lets you do. And for the name, I am going to do Jesus is God. Jesus is God. What? We are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered. Please try a different entry. That’s weird,” he says dryly.
“Okay, maybe praise Allah. Praise Allah. Oh no, flag there. Add to cart. Price locked in. Okay, added to cart. Weird. All right, let’s try. Hate Jesus. Hate Jesus. Weird. No flag there. Only for Jesus is God. Okay, let’s add to cart. Hate Jesus. That worked. Okay, let’s try bow to Islam. Bow, oops, to Islam, but no flag there. Add to cart. Added to cart,” he goes on.
“Wow, the WNBA is interesting. Okay, let’s try Jesus Christ! Surely they’d allow that if they allowed hate. What we are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered. Please try a different entry. Hate whites. Hate whites. Oh wow! It’s allowing hate whites. Okay. Add to cart. Added to cart. Interesting. So I guess you can literally customize a jersey with anything except something promoting Jesus, huh?” he finishes.
Watch the woke WBNA get exposed below:
As The Christian Tribune previously reported, the woke WNBA is not the first entity to get exposed for anti-Christian bias. In early August, it was revealed that Coca-Cola was also engaging in similar behaviors, preventing users from personalizing cans with short messages. People were unable to write in pro-Christian phrases, though pretty much everything else was accepted by the system.
“Woke Coca-Cola is facing severe backlash after a conservative influencer discovered their system allowing for personalized messages on cans allowed various phrases promoting various religious and far-left causes while denying basic Christian tenets. A series of Instagram videos by Ryan Huff went viral after Coke was seemingly defending such concepts as Islam and pedophilia while preventing the short statement ‘Jesus Is King,’’ the Christian Tribune wrote on August 10th.
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