Regarding dan's position on enes Kanter, he is misinformed on a few things.
So listening to Dan talk about the enes Kanter situation he's drawing parallels to Cuba that are not accurate.
1. Enes Kanter is not a legitimate advocate for democracy. Enes Kanter is a supporter of Fethullah Gulen.
Fethullah Gülen - Wikipedia
To make a long story short gulenists do not support liberal democracies in the way we think of them in the West.
Gulen is as much of an islamist, fundamentalist authoritarian wannabe ask his former Ally the president of Turkey erdogan. They disagree very little on domestic politics in Turkey. Their schism is almost entirely based on personal conflict centered around which one of them should be the leader of the fundamentalist Islamic State they hope to create.
Categorizing a gulenists as a legitimate supporter of democracy is a joke.
This is not at all to defend Erdogan, but gulen and him are basically the same person.
"Sharing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ambition to empower religious individuals in civil life previously disenfranchised in secular Turkey, in 2003 a number of Gülen movement participants pivoted from the Turkish political center to become the junior partner with the newly ruling Erdoğan-led and center-right Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the party political and sorely-needed administrative support.[34][35][36] This political alliance worked together to weaken left-of-center Kemalist factions in the judiciary, military, and police (see Ergenekon trials). "
Both of these men want to destroy a secular Democratic turkey.
Their conflict is who gets to be in charge.
Gulen was the man behind the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey. He is supported by the United States, largely because the United States is unhappy with erdogan not being as anti-russian or anti-iranian as most Turkish leaders have been. He has been more independent from American foreign policy goals than Turkish leaders have in the past.
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt - Wikipedia
The United States has refused to extradite him to Turkey to stand trial for the coup. He lives under US protection in Pennsylvania where he is very rich living off of donations from Turkish and Turkish American people who support him and the network of Islamic schools he runs. Obviously if you can imagine this has been a wedge issue in the alliance between turkey and the United States traditionally very close allies and even NATO allies. (The Cuban missile crisis was largely caused by US nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey).
It's widely believed that had his coup succeeded in 2016 the United States state department would have recognized him as the legitimate ruler of turkey and pressured all of its Western allies to do so as well. Obviously it's middle Eastern allies would have been eager to welcome him.
2. Enes Kanter as a supporter of somebody that tried to lead a coup is obviously an enemy of the State in Turkey.
He would be in basically every single country.
Enes Kanter is not actually advocating for liberal, secular democracy in Turkey. Erdogan is an Islamist who has won free elections regularly, Gulen is an islamist that has failed to do that.
I will defend enes Kanter on advocating for Uyghur Muslims. What's happening to them is collective punishment and that is widely considered a crime against humanity.
I will say that it's ironic he goes on Tucker Carlson to talk about the plight of Uyghurs.
He should look up the stuff Tucker has said about Muslims in different contexts.
Eg. Muslim refugees entering into Europe.
Cut this dude
