Yeah. It's got nothing to do with the fact that her posse assaulted her competitor with a crowbar. Or that she's stupid, ugly, and illiterate. Nope. She's just a victim of our prejudices.
Yep. That's it.
“She’s just a victim of our prejudices.”
I wouldn’t go so far as calling her a “victim” in the modern, liberal sense. She eventually did herself in by not stating all of the facts surrounding the clubbing. However, she was clearly disliked by the Olympic Committee ... they *hated* Tonya Harding before she did anything wrong.
Tonya was the rough around the edges, “slutty looking” redneck that shouldn’t have dared set foot on the ice. It wasn’t a sport for a girl like her as far as the ivory tower loiterers on the olympic committee were concerned. They couldn’t market her. They knew they could market the self absorbed, horsefaced, fraud Kerrigan, but Harding was too much of a wild card for the snobs on that committee. They were terrified that she could win. Harding was *very* talented, but the committee couldn’t care less about talent.
Discrimination like that makes me angry ... its no different than bigotry of low expectations based on skin color that liberals love to exploit. These people shouldn’t care about anything outside of talent and rules. Prior to the attack, Harding followed the rules, had the talent, but didn’t fit an image. That disgusts me. However, Harding certainly did herself in not being honest about what she knew surrounding the attack.