Netball is similar to basketball. Only women play it. Due to lack of interest, it does not generate substantial revenue. Unlike the WNBA, it is not bankrolled by a left-wing institution with deep pockets like the NBA. It requires sponsors. Projectile vomiting self-righteous moonbattery at these sponsors is not wise:

Hancock Prospecting Executive Chairman Gina Rinehart has withdrawn a $15m sponsorship for Netball Australia after its players criticized her for something her father said back in 1984.

Denouncing and retroactively canceling people who are no longer with us because they said something that would be politically incorrect if they said it today is a common practice among leftists. The past is to be purged of anyone who ever disagreed with whatever we are told we must think at the moment.

Some Rinehart thoughtcrime is more current:

The team also criticized the fact that she has refused to acknowledge climate change.

Since the climate crisis not real, it will cease to exist if people refuse to acknowledge it. That would derail the progressive agenda, and therefore cannot be allowed.

The sponsorship agreement contains a clause that the team would wear uniforms that would carry the name of the mining company, but the players refused to wear them.

That puts them in breach of contract, which will make it difficult to use courts to force Hancock Prospecting to resume the funding. Where force does not work, leftists tend to be at a loss.

The withdrawal of the sponsorship will be devastating. The team lost $4.4 million dollars in 2021 with the sponsorship.

Making a living playing a game is a nice gig. A little gratitude might have kept it going. Something for the girls to think about as they stand in the unemployment line.

Others could benefit from Netball Australia’s painful lesson, but would rather wallow in wokeness:

Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, a known climate activist, [last month] raised ethical concerns about a major sponsor.

Cummins went to Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley and raised “ethical objections” about Alinta Energy’s climate impact ahead of its contract renewal, according to Nine Newspapers.

Failure to learn from others’ mistakes forces you to learn from your own.

Meanwhile, the Fremantle Dockers [Australian Football League] team [last month] faced calls to remove Woodside as its major sponsor.

Like Alinta Energy, Woodside Energy helps keep the lights on. It would be hard to waste time watching soccer on TV without electricity.

On a tip from Franco.

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