Kyrie Irving and the Nets both pledged to donate $500,000 each 'to eradicate hate.'
When Irving was asked why — amid the Sandy Hook parents’ trials against Jones — he recirculated the old InfoWars video, Irving explained, “I do not stand by Alex Jones’ position, narrative, court case that he had with Sandy Hook or any of the kids that felt like they had to relive trauma or the parents that had to relive trauma or to be dismissive to all the lives that were lost during that tragic event.
However, “My post was a post that Alex Jones did in the early ’90s or late ’90s about secret societies in America and cults,” Irving said. “And it’s true. I wasn’t identifying with anything of being a campaign-ist for Alex Jones or anything. It’s just here are posts … and it’s funny, it’s actually hilarious because out of all the things I posted that day that was the one post everyone chose to see. It just goes back to the way our world is and works. I’m not here to complain about it.
Irving was then again asked about his amplifying of Hebrews to Negroes, which he denied was a “promotion.” “Don’t dehumanize me up here,” he told the reporter while side-stepping the question. “I’m free to post whatever I want.” However, more than three days since posting the controversial tweet, Irving finally took it town. His second, follow-up post calling the “‘Anti-Semitic’ label that is being pushed on me” as not “justified” is still up., shared a photo of fans sitting courtside at a Nets game with Irving in the forefront. Each one wore a shirt that said, “Fight Antisemitism.”
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