Jason Whitlock dropped his support for Caitlin Clark in a fit of hysteria after her interview with TIME magazine earlier this week.
Clark, 22, was named the 2024 Athlete of the Year after her breakout WNBA season with the Indiana Fever sparked widespread interest in women’s basketball.
In his interview with the publication, Clark spoke about the ‘white privilege’ that fell his way when he entered the league and increased interest levels; comments that, according to Whitlock, who until now has been a strong supporter of Clark, left him in tears.
“Basically, in this TIME interview he said, ‘Hey Whitlock, I don’t like you. And all the evangelical conservatives who joined me. “I’m with the woke basketball association. I’m with the feminists, I’m with the lesbians,” Whitlock said.
‘Holy cow. I cried this morning reading the TIME magazine article. It’s worse than just the extracts. Its destruction is systematic. She had been conquered and I knew this was a possibility; I was halfway there predicting this.
“She has been sent to the front lines of the culture war. This LBQBTQ straight war, this whole ongoing gender war, the WNBA is a woke feminist bastion. Perhaps the strongest of all the bastions held by the satanic left.
Jason Whitlock Attacks Caitlin Clark For Her Comments In Her TIME Interview
The controversial analyst had been a big fan of Clark before now turning against her
Whitlock said she “cried” over Clark’s comments about white privilege in her recent interview.
‘We took this little girl from a small town in Iowa and dropped her behind enemy lines: the WNBA. The group of angry lesbians who have this gay pride basketball tour that visits 12 different major cities. And it’s just a little sex tour during the summer.
“And Caitlin Clark gets into it and she has a boyfriend and she’s doing everything she can to stay out of politics. And we’ve seen other straight women get thrown into the WNBA, behind enemy lines, and they’ve come running and screaming like “OMG, are they hostile to straight women in the WNBA?”
Whitlock later said that Clark faced more challenges as a straight white woman in the WNBA than Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.
“At first I wrote that what Clark was going to face was harder than what Jackie Robinson came into the MLB in 1947. And people thought he was crazy,” Whitlock said.
“Robinson faced legitimate death threats, but in every other way, what Caitlin Clark was going to face entering the WNBA was going to be substantially more difficult.
And look where we are eight months later. Caitlin Clark waved the white flag and surrendered.
Whitlock also enlisted the help of a colleague on his show to tear down a poster of Clark from his studio wall.
He replaced it with a photo of Clark’s WNBA rival Sophie Cunningham, and in a comment about Cunningham’s appearance, Whitlock said, “I’ll say this, if Sophie wakes up, she’s still going to stay awake.” I’ll say that.’
Clark has garnered a lot of interest in WNBA games after being drafted by the Indiana Fever
Sharing the X-clip of Clark’s poster coming down, Whitlock wrote: ‘@Urboy_Butter unfortunately had to help me take down my Caitlin Clark poster today. Your article in TIME magazine made me do this.’
Speaking of black women in the WNBA, Clark told TIME, “I want to say I’ve earned it all, but as a white person, there are privileges.”
“A lot of those players in the league that have been really good were black players. This league has been built on them.
“The more we can elevate black women, it’s going to be a beautiful thing.”