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.
I'm sorry but this is such a chronically online take masquerading as progressive radical politics like so much of online left wing takes
Have you ever played a sport before or competed in any physical activity or done any sort of activity with a high skill ceiling like playing an instrument or making art?
Obviously the pinnacle of humanity requires a lot of money/resources. That's not an inherently bad thing. Communism isn't when poor be fr
The Soviet Union used to dominate in the Olympics as they could identify promising athletes and get them into programs to develop their talents regardless of status.
Yea and the parent comment would probably still be complaining about how those Olympians are only successful because they managed to get identified and put through these training programs that required lots of resources
Right, Venezuelan El Sistema is a much better glimpse of how things should be done if the world didnt suck but we got global capitalism and the olympics instead
Professional drummer get wrecked, multiple music degrees. Youre chronically online i live this every single day.
Every major violin competition is all rich kids, ask me how i know
You arent idol worshipping the heckin quirky figure skating rich kid whose dad is an actual china hating piece of shit freak right?
Why the fuck does israel have a bobsled team
You just clearly have an unreasonable chip on your shoulder against the rich
It's cool rich kids are using their privilege and wealth to train to be athletes instead of being investment banker #94883 or some shitty society destroying AI startup founder
What a weird ass thing to say on a leftie forum lol Just say your parents pay your rent.
It really isnt go suck up the air somewhere else. Go be a doctor or something useful to poor people.
The 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇲 in your profile tells me all I need to know about you 🙄
It's not a bad thing a rich kid is indulging in athletics. It's not great but you're hating on somebody that has done 0 bad to people and society when she easily had the opportunity to inflict lots of pain for more capital
Even on a microecon level she's putting so much of her family's money into the economy rather than just shoving it into investment vehicles
Noooooooooppeeee. All cope. Go be a doctor or help homeless people, give back to society because your family already stole so much.
Its not enough to have good political views because its just words and ideas
One of my parents had all their properties and businesses confiscated when the communist party took control of the country when they were a child, and my other parent sold things off a cart on the streets to tourists as a kid
Both immigrated to UK with nothing. I was the first one in my family to graduate from highschool
I've been paying my own tuition and rent since I was 19 years old because my parents had 0 savings their entire lives paying off a 5% down payment mortgage working factory jobs
Moved to the US after graduation because UK wages are dirt
What about it
Good
I dont care about your couched story, stop bootlicking rich people fuck them