Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban waded into murky territory when he called out supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Cuban mocked QAnon believers on Twitter Monday, saying the decentralized group of internet-styled sleuths remind him of people who don’t recognize systematic racial injustice in the United States.
“Why is it that the same people who don’t think White Privilege exists believe there is a Deep State and some non-existent guy named Q has all the answers?” he asked.
Why is it that the same people who don’t think White Privilege exists believe there is a Deep State and some non-existent guy named Q has all the answers ?
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) June 15, 2020
Cuban repeatedly teased a presidential bid during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic before scuttling plans to do so in early June. His comments on “white privilege” follow remarks from a number of high-profile lawmakers who have accused the country of being racist and blamed white men for weeks of protests turning violent after the death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
QAnon is a worldwide movement centered around the belief that President Trump is locked in battle with operatives throughout the intelligence community who are attempting to sabotage his presidency. “Q” refers to the unidentified leader(s) who allegedly have military-level clearance information that they distribute through daily clues to a network of websites on which followers congregate to trade opinions about the news of the day. QAnon supporters also claim that Hollywood is filled with satanic pedophiles.
QAnon has been in the news recently after Q-adjacent Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene won the GOP primary in Georgia’s 14th District last week. Greene would mark the first outwardly supportive politician of QAnon to be elected to Congress. Her primary victory came amid a series of tweets by rapper Ice Cube, some of which were directly related to the group.
