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Old news but Alyssa Liu on Eileen Gu discourse (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 days ago by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/sports@hexbear.net
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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.

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[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would really like a "who the fuck are all of these people" emoji

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

2 Olympic gold medalists who are both half Chinese, half white. Eileen Gu was being hit with "China bad!" nonsense, so she went to compete for China since she has dual citizenship. As said in the OP, they're both friends because they're both from the same part of California, both have friends/family in the same ethnic group, and both compete in winter sports. Chuds are mad at Gu for winning gold medals for China instead of the US and mad at Liu because she's not a white nationalist who condemns Gu.

[–] Big@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Same. I'm too employed for this shit.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It has been incredibly annoying seeing libs using Liu and Gu’s gold medal performances as an excuse to China bash.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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. what-the-hell 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! morshupls

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

They were trying to claim Liu, a queer person

Where did you see that? I see a lot references to her being an ally but not queer herself.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

That’s such a good reply to spin it back on the hypocrisy of the USA being anti-immigrant MAGA and wanting to claim athletes as their own

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The kicker is that Alyssa is really popular on Chinese social media too, they thought that despite the fact the degree of difficulty of the moves she pulled off in her routine didn't approach those of the Russians, that the choreography and energy far surpassed them. There's no salt from the Chinese side afaict

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Nice to know, Kuro.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They hate Eileen Gu because she skis for China.

I hate Eileen Gu because I went to Cal.

We are not the same.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Go Bears

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine how much money it cost to train three hours a day with two olympic level instructors in the bay area

I hate the olympics its just rich people pagentry

Its not the pinnacle of humanity it just shows what money can do at the very moment.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 🙄

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Go be a doctor or something useful to poor people.

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

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

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

Good

I dont care about your couched story, stop bootlicking rich people fuck them

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Liu seems extremely cool especially for someone with an gusano father

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah that guy needs to be put down

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Frankly, taking the option that nets you 20 million is the most American thing you could do