ESPN avoids on-air coverage of Golden State Warriors owner's Uyghur comments, other networks also ignore

Fox News contributor Will Cain blasts Silicon Valley billionaire for dismissing the ongoing human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party against the Muslim-minority Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Province.

ESPN has largely turned blind eye to the growing controversy plaguing the Golden State Warriors over one of its owners' callous remarks about the imprisoned Uyghur Muslims in China. 

The Disney-owned network has not drawn any attention to Warriors part-owner Chamath Palihapitiya, who went viral on Monday when he claimed that "nobody cares" about the Chinese Communist Party-sponsored (CCP) genocide that has been recognized as such by several national governments.

CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, WARRIORS PART-OWNER AND VENTURE CAPITALIST, DISMISSES UYGHUR MUSLIMS’ RIGHTS ABUSES

"Let’s be honest: nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, Okay?" Palihapitiya said on the "All-In Podcast", which was released over the weekend. "You bring it up because you care, and I think that it’s nice that you care, the rest of us don’t care." 

"I’m telling you a very hard ugly truth. Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line, OK?" Palihapitiya added. 

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and chief executive officer of Social Capital LP, listens during the Bloomberg Business of Equality conference in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The conference brings together business, academic and political leaders as well as nonprofits and activists to discuss the future of equality, how we get there and what is at stake for the economy and society at-large. Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The comments have sparked intense backlash on social media, but the media has largely avoided covering the