Christopher T. Conner in The Conversation:
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, former NBA player Royce White became an outspoken advocate of defunding the police. Over those ensuing months, he appeared at a number of protests and marches in Minnesota – demonstrations that conservative politicians and pundits excoriated.
Four years later, White accepted the endorsement of the Minnesota GOP in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race.
In the interim, White had appeared on the show of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, where he decried the “establishment” and “corporatocracy.” While on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, he complained that women “had become too mouthy.” Elsewhere, he lambasted the LGBTQ+ movement as “Luciferian” and described Israel as the vanguard of a “new world order.”
White’s transition from an NBA player who advocated for progressive causes to an acolyte of Jones is more common than you might think.
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