...Enes is right about the forced labor camps and prisons but it seems like he mentioned Nike to draw attention to it and to bash them because he lost out on a shoe deal in 2018.
He mentioned Nike because Phil Knight
pioneered the practice of using Chinese slave labor to avoid labor laws, environmental regulations, health and safety laws, minimum wage laws, employee health insurance, employee vacations...all as a way to achieve instant Oligarchy without actually deserving success of any kind. It's the only reason Nike even managed to get off the ground. Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, the WalMart Clan, were quick to copy his "business model", bringing in the age of instant billionaires. Most American apparel companies, BigTech companies, and most notably Jeff Bezos and Amazon jumped on the wagon. They are not capitalists, and certainly not American businessmen. They are mass-murderers, fascists, climbing over dead bodies in their lust for "wealth/power".
Together they have killed more people and produced more raw pollution than is realistically accountable.
And this is why Nike did not want to make a shoe with a moral man's name on it. It would draw too much attention to what Nike
is and what Nike
does.
from 2018:
"But unlike Kaepernick, who has been celebrated in media campaigns and is
reportedly receiving millions from Nike, Kanter is one of the few players on his team without a shoe deal. He has said that
talks with Nike stalled after they raised concerns that stores would be shut down in Turkey, a country of more than 80 million people.
"Because I talk about these issues, I don't get any endorsement deals," he says. "Nike is so scared to give me a contract because they don't want their business to be affected in Turkey."
Nike did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment on a shoe deal for Kanter.
