Heather Heying
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8,492 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Heather Heying’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh the commissioner for the WNBA said in response, we recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you on the players association in the weeks and months ahead.
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Again, it is actually neither complex nor nuanced, as much as everything that went up to this point is.
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was.
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Uh this is not actually a complex or nuanced uh topic, and the fact that the Commissioner of the WNBA thinks it is or is still trying to play both sides of this suggests that the WNBA is not in good hands.
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The WNBA's uh the WNBA Players Association released a statement on social media Friday that emphasized diversity and inclusion while saying the group will not be used as political pawns.
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Well, you are being used as political pawns.
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You imagine that because the pushback is coming from people who have been called conservatives, and that that this must be a politically conservative movement to what?
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To
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Believe in reality, right?
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Like that's it.
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This is not, this is not political pawnmanship by the NBA players, by the so-called conservatives.
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This you would you became political pawns at the point that you started being willing to say if you identify as something that you fundamentally are not, then you are that thing.
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That was you becoming a political pawn right there.
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This let me just finish reading this little bit here.
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We embrace
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Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, the statement read.
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Those are the values that unite this union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
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Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm.
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We will continue to have hard conversations, but we will not be used as political pawns again.
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