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Simone Biles And The Media's Celebration Of Choking
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Ubiquitous
Aug 2, 2021, 10:39:23 AM8/2/21
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It’s not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something to
admire with deep reverence?
After U.S. Olympian Simone Biles dropped out of not one but two games this
week, events that she and her peers have been training their entire lives
for, the response from the national media has been to effusively cheer and
pay homage to the power and bravery of giving up.
And make no mistake, much or most of the celebration for Biles’ backdown is
because she happens to be black.
It’s not enough for the media to say, “Gee, it’s too bad she quit and
hopefully she works out her problems,” but they have to herald her as a
trailblazer because it makes liberal journalists feel good to pity (i.e. look
down on) others, particularly when it comes to race.
“A different kind of pressure follows Black women who achieve in
traditionally White spaces,” wrote Washington Post sports reporter Candace
Buckner. “If they’ve had a realist for a mother, since childhood they’ve
heard the refrain they’ve got to work twice as hard to get half as much. And
if they spent two seconds in America, then they know that mama was right.”
She said the lesson of Biles’ abrupt withdrawal should be in “letting Black
women be great without carrying a deeper narrative.”
MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson similarly observed that Biles “is not just an athlete.
She is not just one of the best athletes in the world. She’s also a black
woman athlete.”
Jackson’s guest, sports writer Kavitha Davidson, nodded along thoughtfully
and bemoaned “the pressure on black women to be 100 percent perfect all the
time.”
(When you work in the national media, you’re allowed to invent new racial
stereotypes and concepts at will.)
Davidson said Biles is “literally carrying the weight of an entire country on
her shoulders and probably an entire sport, and that weighs a lot.”
Eren Orbey of the New Yorker was in awe at the “radical courage” it took for
Biles to see herself out of the games. He called it “its own kind of
achievement.”
Remember that the next time you’re given an assignment on a tight deadline at
work. Should you feel that the pressure is too much, walk out and remind
yourself that that in itself is “its own kind of achievement.”
There is of course nothing wrong with Biles choosing not to compete. It’s
very literally her neck on the line each time she hurls and twists her body
into the air. She said she was sitting the games out not for physical injury
but because “the mental is not there.”
Fair enough! Plenty of people cave under pressure. Very few of them will know
pressure like the Olympics. Biles certainly didn’t seem to think much of it,
even referring to herself after withdrawing the first time as “the head star
of the Olympics.”
But choking doesn’t make Biles special. And the incident certainly doesn’t
reveal a “superhumanity,” as a headline in New York magazine asserted. That
remains true even though Biles is black.
No one in America interested in the Olympics expects anything more or less
than that she do our country proud. If someone like Kavitha Davidson believes
there’s some added responsibility on black women to be “100 percent perfect
all the time,” that’s something she might raise with a therapist, rather than
project it on the rest of the nation.
Biles is an undeniably gifted athlete. She choked. It should be very easy to
celebrate one and not the other, even though Biles is black.
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Trump won.
admire with deep reverence?
After U.S. Olympian Simone Biles dropped out of not one but two games this
week, events that she and her peers have been training their entire lives
for, the response from the national media has been to effusively cheer and
pay homage to the power and bravery of giving up.
And make no mistake, much or most of the celebration for Biles’ backdown is
because she happens to be black.
It’s not enough for the media to say, “Gee, it’s too bad she quit and
hopefully she works out her problems,” but they have to herald her as a
trailblazer because it makes liberal journalists feel good to pity (i.e. look
down on) others, particularly when it comes to race.
“A different kind of pressure follows Black women who achieve in
traditionally White spaces,” wrote Washington Post sports reporter Candace
Buckner. “If they’ve had a realist for a mother, since childhood they’ve
heard the refrain they’ve got to work twice as hard to get half as much. And
if they spent two seconds in America, then they know that mama was right.”
She said the lesson of Biles’ abrupt withdrawal should be in “letting Black
women be great without carrying a deeper narrative.”
MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson similarly observed that Biles “is not just an athlete.
She is not just one of the best athletes in the world. She’s also a black
woman athlete.”
Jackson’s guest, sports writer Kavitha Davidson, nodded along thoughtfully
and bemoaned “the pressure on black women to be 100 percent perfect all the
time.”
(When you work in the national media, you’re allowed to invent new racial
stereotypes and concepts at will.)
Davidson said Biles is “literally carrying the weight of an entire country on
her shoulders and probably an entire sport, and that weighs a lot.”
Eren Orbey of the New Yorker was in awe at the “radical courage” it took for
Biles to see herself out of the games. He called it “its own kind of
achievement.”
Remember that the next time you’re given an assignment on a tight deadline at
work. Should you feel that the pressure is too much, walk out and remind
yourself that that in itself is “its own kind of achievement.”
There is of course nothing wrong with Biles choosing not to compete. It’s
very literally her neck on the line each time she hurls and twists her body
into the air. She said she was sitting the games out not for physical injury
but because “the mental is not there.”
Fair enough! Plenty of people cave under pressure. Very few of them will know
pressure like the Olympics. Biles certainly didn’t seem to think much of it,
even referring to herself after withdrawing the first time as “the head star
of the Olympics.”
But choking doesn’t make Biles special. And the incident certainly doesn’t
reveal a “superhumanity,” as a headline in New York magazine asserted. That
remains true even though Biles is black.
No one in America interested in the Olympics expects anything more or less
than that she do our country proud. If someone like Kavitha Davidson believes
there’s some added responsibility on black women to be “100 percent perfect
all the time,” that’s something she might raise with a therapist, rather than
project it on the rest of the nation.
Biles is an undeniably gifted athlete. She choked. It should be very easy to
celebrate one and not the other, even though Biles is black.
--
Trump won.
BeamMeUpScotty
Aug 2, 2021, 10:58:39 AM8/2/21
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On 7/29/21 9:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> It’s not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
> After U.S. Olympian Simone Biles dropped out of not one but two games this
> week, events that she and her peers have been training their entire lives
> for, the response from the national media has been to effusively cheer and
> pay homage to the power and bravery of giving up.
>
> And make no mistake, much or most of the celebration for Biles’ backdown is
> because she happens to be black.
>
> It’s not enough for the media to say, “Gee, it’s too bad she quit and
> hopefully she works out her problems,” but they have to herald her as a
> trailblazer because it makes liberal journalists feel good to pity (i.e. look
> down on) others, particularly when it comes to race.
It's the FLIP-SIDE to AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, when you select people for
> It’s not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
> After U.S. Olympian Simone Biles dropped out of not one but two games this
> week, events that she and her peers have been training their entire lives
> for, the response from the national media has been to effusively cheer and
> pay homage to the power and bravery of giving up.
>
> And make no mistake, much or most of the celebration for Biles’ backdown is
> because she happens to be black.
>
> It’s not enough for the media to say, “Gee, it’s too bad she quit and
> hopefully she works out her problems,” but they have to herald her as a
> trailblazer because it makes liberal journalists feel good to pity (i.e. look
> down on) others, particularly when it comes to race.
their race rather than their abilities you have to also PRETEND that
their FAILURE is a positive thing rather than part of learning or lack
of character.
When LEFTISTS refuse to use character and instead use RACE as the
benchmark, then when the character is flawed they have to blame the
failure on racism and NOT the character flaws.
They're caught in a CATCH-22 of their own design.
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Victor T
Jan 15, 2022, 9:38:59 AM1/15/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Unlike you leftists, I get everything I need to know from One America News
Network and nowhere else. You who subscribe to the MSM like CNN or Fox News
have been brainwashed by your corporate Overlords. Fox News was founded by a
foreigner! And you lapped it up.
Your kind has been radicalized by big government and creeping socialism.
The absolute truth starts here, believe no other:
https://www.oann.com/
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Network and nowhere else. You who subscribe to the MSM like CNN or Fox News
have been brainwashed by your corporate Overlords. Fox News was founded by a
foreigner! And you lapped it up.
Your kind has been radicalized by big government and creeping socialism.
The absolute truth starts here, believe no other:
https://www.oann.com/
Victor T
Jan 22, 2022, 11:33:33 AM1/22/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Victor T
Feb 1, 2022, 11:08:37 PM2/1/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Victor T
Feb 3, 2022, 10:41:07 PM2/3/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Victor T
Feb 7, 2022, 6:06:22 PM2/7/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Victor T
Feb 11, 2022, 2:13:30 PM2/11/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
Victor T
Feb 11, 2022, 8:48:57 PM2/11/22
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Ubiquitous wrote
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
>
> It's not a crime to choke under pressure but when did it become something
to
> admire with deep reverence?
>
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