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Serious Question: Where Can We Come Together?
The question we should all be asking after this year’s Olympics is, “What is up with women’s soccer players?”
2021 saw an unprecedented spike in Olympic wokeness. It wasn’t just America (as I have heard many say,) but it appears to have been only women and mostly soccer players.
Women’s soccer players from New Zealand, Chile, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States all took a knee this year in protest. The United States’s Raven Saunders twerked for the camera and raised her arms in an X to represent intersectional oppression, while Gwen Barry turned her back during the national anthem at the Olympic trials. Costa Rican female gymnast, Luciana Alvarado, also joined in protest by ending her routine kneeling with one fist raised to the air.
The Olympics are designed to bring us together. This year, we saw it tear us apart. In a speech to the TPUSA Student Action Summit, Former President Trump mentioned the US women’s soccer team and the crowd of young conservatives instantly began to boo.
This made me quite sad. I know Americans are divided, but to see Americans boo our own sports team makes our national division impossible to ignore.
Are there places left where we can come together?
I used to watch the Tonys before they became unbearingly politically divisive. When former Vice President Pence attended a production of Hamilton and was booed by the audience and lectured by the cast, it was clear that the theater was no longer a place to come together. (Which is the whole point of theater.)
I know people who used to watch the Emmys and can now hardly stand to watch a celebrity lecture them about women’s rights, climate change, and racial justice for even one more second.
The NFL used to bring families together under the banner of their favorite team. Now, you can’t watch a major game without the NFL making some kind of clunky “antiracist” gesture.
Can we agree on anything anymore? If America is a broken family, does that mean every Christmas dinner when we come together we are going to fight? I hope not.
I would love to hear your thoughts. Is there any haven from overt politicization of all things?
Where is it? How do I find it?
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I don’t know anything about this. Please enlighten me!
Sorry for the delay in responding! Well first of all the Houston Rockets GM was forced to apologize for a tweet supporting Hong Kong protestors after he was criticized by the league and various players for daring to offend China. Fans who displayed pro Hong Kong signs in NBA arenas were kicked out lest they be seen on TV and “offend China”. The NBA continues to run camps and schools in China while studiously ignoring human rights abuses such as with the Uyghurs genocide allegations. The NBA’s newly woke poster boy Lebron and various other stars just say when asked that those issues are “complicated” while repeating anti-American BLM slogans. I wouldn’t watch and NBA game if it broke out in my back yard.
May one day the phrase “ran a camp in China” appear on indictments.
The Cowardly NBA.