so many people have said that I "put my disability over being black"
[morbo futurama voice] INTERSECTIONALITY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
@YKantRachelRead I can't get past this post from the Kamala Harris campaign a few days ago.
A woman wins a gold medal and the Democratic presidential candidate "celebrates" with a weird, racist dual loyalty joke.
People think it's team fucking sports.
@fedilore @YKantRachelRead
> She refused to compete for China
What does this even mean?
I had no idea who she was or what was her life story, so after looking at this screenshot I thought "maybe she immigrated to USA just this year; and before that, while living in China, she refused to participate in the Olympics because of China's human rights violations or something?"
But then I opened Wikipedia, and... she was born in USA, she lived there her whole life, she has zero ties to China except that her father was born and lived in China but moved to USA 16 years before she was even born.
@IngaLovinde @YKantRachelRead In large part, this is about Eileen Gu.
It's not that weird for Americans to compete for another country they have some connection to, if the sport they're competing in is less developed in that other country.
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