A Fox News anchor hosted a segment with a Tea Party leader and claimed U.S. Olympic gold medal winner Gabby Douglas and others aren’t showing enough patriotism because their uniforms aren’t covered in stars and stripes.
And of course, we all know that Olympic competitors all design their own uniforms. Always.
This puts me in mind of a post from Pam Spaulding a couple of days ago.
Poor Gabby Douglas. She is rightfully celebrating the fact that she set a historical precedent of Olympic athletic achievement as a woman of color — the first black woman to take the all-around individual title in gymnastics. But in the wake of her win, she is mocked by members of her own community on social media about her hairstyle and its upkeep. So unreal. And not surprising. As I’ve blogged before, kinky natural hair is political.
So we've got racism on the right (no surprise there) and authoritarian identity politics on the left (no surprise there, either).
So here we have a sixteen-year-old girl who has just set a historical precedent as the first black woman to take an all-around gold medal in gymnastics, and all these losers can do, when they should be celebrating, is carp over bullshit details.
These should all be today's "Disgusting People,", but somehow that title seemed more appropriate.
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