Jason Whitlock has abandoned his support of Caitlin Clark in a hysterical meltdown after her interview with TIME magazine earlier this week.
The 22-year-old Clark was named Athlete of the Year for 2024 after her breakthrough WNBA season with Indiana Fever ignited wild interest in women’s basketball.
In her interview with the publication, Clark spoke about ‘white privilege’ that fell her way as she entered the league and drove up the interest levels – comments that Whitlock, who until now has been a huge Clark supporter, said left him in tears.
‘She just basically in this TIME interview said “hey Whitlock, I don’t like you. And all you evangelical conservatives that hopped on board with me”. I’m with the woke basketball association. I’m with the feminists, I’m with the lesbians,’ Whitlock said.
‘Holy cow. I did cry this morning reading the TIME magazine article. It’s worse than just the excerpts. It is systematic, the destruction of her. She has been conquered and I knew this was a possibility – I was halfway predicting this.
‘She has been sent to the very, very frontline of the culture war. This LBQBTQ heterosexual war, the whole gender warfare going on, the WNBA is a feminist, woke stronghold. Perhaps the strongest of all the strongholds the satanic left hold.
Jason Whitlock attacked ‘woke’ Caitlin Clark for her comments in her TIME interview
The controversial analyst has been a big admirer of Clark before turning on her now
Whitlock said he ‘cried’ at Clark’s comments about white privilege in her recent interview
‘We take this little small-town girl from Iowa and we drop her behind enemy lines – the WNBA. The group of angry lesbians who have this basketball gay pride tour that visits 12 different major cities. And it is just a little sex tour during the summer.
‘And Caitlin Clark gets dropped into that and she has got a boyfriend and she is doing her best to stay out of politics. And we’ve seen other heterosexual women get dropped into the WNBA, behind enemy lines, and they’ve come running and screaming out like “holy cow are they hostile to heterosexual women in the WNBA”.’
Whitlock then said Clark faced more challenges as a heterosexual white woman in the WNBA than Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.
‘In the very beginning I wrote that what Clark was going to face was more difficult than what Jackie Robinson going into MLB in 1947. And people thought I was crazy,’ Whitlock said.
‘Robinson faced legitimate death threats but in every other way, what Caitlin Clark was going to face going into the WNBA was going to be substantially more difficult.
‘And look where we are eight months later. Caitlin Clark waved the white flag and she surrendered.’
Whitlock also had help from a colleague on his show in tearing down a poster of Clark from the wall in his studio.
He replaced it with a picture of Clark’s WNBA rival Sophie Cunningham and in a remark about Cunningham’s appearance, Whitlock said: ‘I will say this, if Sophie goes woke she is still staying up. I will say that.’
Clark has driven huge interest in WNBA games after being drafted by Indiana Fever
Sharing the clip on X of the Clark poster coming down, Whitlock wrote: ‘@Urboy_Butter unfortunately had to help me take down my Caitlin Clark poster today. Her TIME Magazine Article forced me to do this.’
Speaking about black women in the WNBA, Clark told TIME: ‘I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege.
‘A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has kind of been built on them.
‘The more we can elevate black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing.’
