Inteviewer: What was it like to find yourself in the center of all this political discourse?
Liu: Ooh, am I?
Interviewer: I don't know if you feel you are, but there is all of this discourse around you and Eileen Gu. China and America are viewing you as like a liability or a hero.
Liu: Yes, I've seen that. I've known Eileen since I was 13 or something. We're from the Bay Area. She's super nice, and her mom is from China. I think people are hypocritical for shaming her for representing China. So in my head it's a bit hypocritical, because her mom is an immigrant. Y'all would have told her to go back to China. Now that they're back in China, you're mad. [Laughs] And it's sport, it doesn't matter what country we represent. Sport is sport, and she has a love for competition, she has love for the game. I think that's all that matters. There's no shame in going to where opportunity is.
It has been incredibly annoying seeing libs using Liu and Gu’s gold medal performances as an excuse to China bash.
The whole thing has been absurd to witness. Especially the predictable deeply unhinged cope from chuds. They were trying to claim Liu, a queer person and a progressive lib, as some sort of culture warrior for their cause in order to cope with Gu's "betrayal", and some fash were making pro-Liu edits containing Nazi symbols.
I can't imagine being Liu and then seeing that shit made about you.
How did they cope with Liu being "woke" by their own bullshit standards? By claiming that ACKSHUALLY she isn't woke because her gusano father is an anti-communist!
The cool thing about being a chud is that you are not bound to reality in any way. You can believe literally whatever you want. There's no need to make it work with conflicting facts, you can just say shit and that makes it real to you and your dumb chud friends.
Where did you see that? I see a lot references to her being an ally but not queer herself.