I don’t think she’s really playing the victim here.
She displayed a few moments of discomfort.
She’s not the one going on for days about how butt-hurt they are about her few moments of discomfort.
Uh it’s a topic of discussion. Nothing is personal hete.
That might be a fun and irreverent topic for CA to discuss?
Actually it’s some of y’all getting butt hurt because you have issue with my melanin challenged privilege in bringing it up.
Not really, just wondering why people have to keep demeaning and insulting her. Sounds pretty hateful, as though she did something personally against you.
If she didn’t do something personally against you, then continuing to demean and insult her is pretty odd. If she did do something personally against you, what exactly was it?
Quoteth the the hateth
Brat?
Butthurt?
Prima Donna?
Yes, that is some of the demeaning and insulting language that has been used in reaction to her showing some level of discomfort.
I just see OP having a hissy fit to be honest, not sure there is much to discuss here. It’s a shame we have such bratty posting.
Indeed. Like I mentioned upthread, she doesn’t seem to be the one triggered here.
If it weren’t for those damned coincidental technical issues…
With the number of non-white athletes competing in track, I would have to assume that a racist in the sound booth would be causing a lot more problems than just mis-timing the playing of the anthem for a relatively unknown athlete in a less popular track event.
She certainly acted like she was triggered, and her belief that it was somehow done to agitate her rather than a simple mistake is a stretch. I will note that she has since said that playing the national anthem is per se disrespectful to black people.
All of which, given this country’s history, is a supportable position to take.
She is absolutely within her rights to do as she did, and the reaction to it by the right is, as always, overblown whining used to stir up more hate and animosity by stupid, mostly white, people against black people and anyone who disagrees with the right wing.
If you dominate your sport and won a gold medal, you get the right to express yourself on TV before an audience of billions of people.
If you have no significant life achievements, then you have to watch her and cry about it anonymously on a dying message board.
That’s how that works. It’s not hard to understand.
Who cares? It’s her medal, not yours or mine
If you want to celebrate the US victory in the hammer throw, then you do it on the hammer-thrower’s terms. She’s the one who did the work and earned it. Don’t like it? Doesn’t matter.
I’ll celebrate with the athlete who took the top tier at the podium not the the one who was on the bottom off to the side with her back turned.
Who do you believe cares?
Regardless of the place on the podium, is the podium a place to stand up against political and social policies the athlete doesn’t agree with? There are a huge range of stances on these issues and the athletes have a wide range of positions on them. Would it be appropriate for each athlete to be on the stand supporting or protesting whatever policies they personally disagree with? And keep in mind that some of the athletes will be supporting policies that you very much oppose.
yes
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Eh. It happens.
She has stated that the primary reason she remains in the sport is that it gives her this voice, so yes, it is exactly the right place for her to do it.
To me it appears to boil down mostly to protesting bigotry. I find myself okay with people speaking out against that.
Sure, as that’s about the only place they’ll have that visible of a platform.
Seriously? Sure, if someone wants to use the podium to display their Nazi salute in protest of the decreasing white population, I’m not going to call them out for protesting, but I’ll certainly call them Nazis. Right now, all of the protesting that I’ve seen is around bigotry and the resulting injustices around that, but I’ll keep supporting any hypothetical protests you want us imagine.
What? How did you reach that conclusion? I never heard of her prior to yesterday.