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   With WNBA star Brittney Griner detained in Russia, some social   
   justice zealots have decided that her individual situation must   
   take a backseat on behalf of the “woe is women” narrative that   
   has taken hold in sports media.   
      
   Griner’s coach, Vanessa Nygaard, asked that “if it was LeBron,   
   he’d be home, right?” She then declared that Griner’s continued   
   detention is “a statement about the value of women. It's a   
   statement about the value of a black person. It's a statement   
   about the value of a gay person. All of those things. We know   
   it, and so that's what hurts a little more.”   
      
   Bill Plaschke, a sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times and   
   a contributor for ESPN, took the same line. “If Brittney Griner   
   were Tom Brady, America would be losing its mind,” he declared.   
   “Where is the outrage over the hostage superstar?”   
      
   It is true that people would care more if Tom Brady or LeBron   
   James were detained in Russia. That’s because people know who   
   those two are. Griner is a star in the WNBA, but given how few   
   people watch or care about the league, she is only mildly more   
   famous than any other American hostage. Brady and LeBron are two   
   of the most recognizable athletes in the country. They are not   
   on the same level.   
      
   The Brady/James treatment also would be true if, say, Serena   
   Williams were the one stranded in Russia. Williams is a major   
   athlete on the world stage, despite being a black woman, which   
   Nygaard and Plaschke think is the issue.   
      
   You can tell that fame, not race or gender, is the defining   
   factor based on several previous examples. UCLA basketball   
   players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill were detained   
   in China back in 2017, but it was Ball who dominated the   
   headlines about the incident, given his more famous family.   
   Indeed, Griner is getting far more coverage than other Americans   
   being held hostage currently. According to CBS last month, there   
   are more than 40 Americans who are considered “wrongful   
   detainees” overseas. Could Nygaard or Plaschke name one of them   
   other than Griner?   
      
   Indeed, Paul Whelan is a perfect example. Whelan’s sister   
   wondered why Griner’s family received a call from President Joe   
   Biden when her family hadn't, despite Paul being detained in   
   Russia for over three years. Whelan is not a black lesbian who   
   plays basketball. He would also get more attention if he were   
   LeBron James or Tom Brady, sure, but evidently, he would also be   
   getting more attention if he was Brittney Griner.   
      
   All of this overshadows the real issue, which is that Griner is   
   being detained in Russia. Her imprisonment isn’t some shared   
   societal hardship. Women, black women, and black gay women are   
   not the ones detained in Russia: Griner is. But the absurd   
   worldview of Nygaard and Plaschke holds that Griner is not a   
   victim as much as women everywhere are. Her individual problem   
   must take a backseat to group grievance narratives because the   
   Left believes imagined slights against the collective matter   
   more than the injustice Griner is currently facing.   
      
   That belief is wrong.   
      
   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-victim-of-   
   brittney-griners-russian-detainment-is-griner-not-women-as-a-   
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