What happened to Utah women's basketball team was horrible and also typically American
It is of course true that what happened to the Utah women's basketball team was horrible. Members of the team told KSL.com they were subjected to racial slurs on multiple occasions while entering and later departing a restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It is also true that whoever decided to put the team in a hotel in that town lacked the historical understanding, or simply didn't care, about the ugly white supremacist history of Idaho and that town in particular.
It is true that Brad Little, the buffoon governor of the state, recently signed an anti-DEI law that is one gigantic dog whistle (bullhorn?) to extremists. Just several posts later, after proudly announcing that anti-Black piece of legislation, he condemned the attacks on the Utah team, apparently unaware of the irony that laws like the one he signed inflame racism.
