Current Events > American Conservatives Are Bitterly Mad Over Eileen Gu Winning Gold

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LMAO, imagine actually caring about the Olympics.

LMAO, imagine actually caring about the Olympics.

Its not just conservatives btw. I remember Hockeybub89 was melting down over her as well.

LMAO, imagine actually caring about the Olympics.

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1489612215619829761

American Conservatives Are Bitterly Mad

What aren't American conservatives bitterly mad over?

"What does this tell us about the moment we're living in and for the future"

That to an 18-year old Asian-American, living in a 3rd world racist shithole like America is worse than an authoritarian racist shithole like China.

Should be pretty obvious, but Tucker Carlson is dumb.

That 18 year olds are dumb? Fox News has terribly racist and patriotic reasons for being mad at this, but she's still making a poor choice, which is her right.

Gu spoke out about anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings and after an elderly Asian man in San Francisco died from a racist attack. She has described her own experience with anti-Asian racism, having endured a man screaming obscenities about Asians infecting America with COVID-19 at her and her grandmother in a shop.[24] Gu also supports the Black Lives Matter movement.[25][26] She has also been described as "a strong advocate of gender equality and representation of women in sports".[8]
Gu was raised by her Chinese mother and grandmother, and thus can speak fluent Mandarin Chinese as well as English.[26][27] As a hobby, she plays the piano.[7]
Online hate
In March 2021, Gu revealed that she had been receiving hostility over her decision to compete for China, including death threats and "endless hate" over social media since as young as 15 years old.[28]

Gun violence and police brutality?

I wonder if there was this much rage when Naomi Osaka chose to play for Japan instead of the US despite being raised and trained in the US for most of her life?

In one sentence, what did she do? Grew up in the US and then moved to China and competed for them?

Grew up in US, saw all the Anti-Asians attacks, decided to compete for China.

https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3125947/eileen-gu-calls-out-domestic-terrorism-asian-americans-amid-spike

It breaks my heart to see something like this hit so close to home, the 17-year-old San Francisco-born Gu told the Post, responding to news of the eight people most of Asian descent being killed in as series of shootings in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday. I remember at the beginning of the pandemic, I was with my grandma in a Walgreens in San Francisco and this haphazard, haggard man runs in screaming profanities about Asian people and how they were bringing the virus in and how it was super dangerous. I dont think Ive ever felt fear like that in my entire life.

This was in San Francisco supposed to be the liberal bubble within California, which is the most liberal state, in the most liberal country in the world. This was supposed to be the safest place and I felt physically in danger. I grabbed my grandma and we ran out. I was so scared. That moment was definitely a reset because I realised how close to home it hit. That anybody can be affected just because of the way they look or their culture and heritage.

Weird how she doesn't defend the uyghurs as they suffer violence due to their culture and heritage

(Also she's been competing for China for 3 years)

The harassment is too far, especially the stuff before her defection, but people that switch nationalities to compete at the Olympics always get shit on by their actual home country for being sports traitors, this is nothing new.

Weird how she doesn't defend the uyghurs as they suffer violence due to their culture and heritage