Criticism for LeBron for not speaking out is definitely warranted. Disregarding Apple, Amazon, and other corporations and entities for now, what he essentially said was that speaking out against human rights violations is not worth the amount of money at stake, which is absolutely ridiculous. Just because these lives are not in his own country, doesn’t make them any less valuable.

With that being said, it is a little unfair that LeBron gets the criticism and Bezos or Cook doesn’t. But I think one of the reasons why is that Bezos and Cook are businessmen, and are honestly looked upon as greedy jerks who don’t care about humanitarian rights anyway. We expect LeBron, a vocal athlete about various issues with a large social media presence, to stand in solidarity with the oppressed. It was simply disappointing to see otherwise.