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.
Eileen Gu sucks but for different reasons that most hate her
Born in one of the most wealthy neighborhoods in SF and went to Stanford and she gives off the expected annoying stiff bourgeois vibes from somebody with that background. Never really reps the Bay or SF unless she's talking about Stanford lmao. Got plastic surgery which is probably class signifier motivated
Vs Alysa Liu
Racoon dyed hair, did her own smiley piercing, reps Oakland hella, tramp stamp, super casual chill down to earth vibe
Both fit the stereotypes of SF (derogatory) and Oakland (compliment) perfectly
They hate Eileen Gu because she skis for China.
I hate Eileen Gu because I went to Cal.
We are not the same.
Go Bears