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“Australian Open fans asked to remove ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ shirts by security”
If they want to seriously get attention with their protest, the (decent looking) women in the group should comply, with nothing under their shirts.
You guys down their are going to have to get your own deep state under control. You are on the edge of the return of a feudal state with absolute power over the peasants.
She made some fine body parts.
So Australia hired Chinese security to work an Australian tennis tournament? How global of them.
Lets go to war against Russia but heaven forbid someone should offend the Chinese with a T shirt.
They don’t allow clothing that mentions tennis players? At the tennis tournament?
How about……….”Make Peng Shuai Great Again”
Why is it news when communists act like communists? Prayers for this unfortunate woman but this scenario happens almost daily in China.
I believe a baker or a wedding photographer should have the right to refuse business. Thus, in my book they shouldn’t have to perform for gay weddings. Following that reasoning, you go into someone’s business, and they ask you to wear a mask, you can either put on a mask or leave. The tennis match is a business. They tell you to do something, you either do it to enjoy the fruits of their business, or you don’t.
If they want to raise awareness about something going in what is essentially a terrorist regime then they need to find a way to do it that does not impact someone else’s business.
My go-to would be to visit my government representatives and ask where they stand. Here’s what I’ve found to be true. You as an individual have no standing when it comes to dealing with your own government. Take being wrongfully put on a terrorist watch list, or, even having some black mark against your driver’s license that wasn’t due to something you did. You’ll run into no end of bureaucratic dead-ends and no one will help you. You’ll end up in infinite phone jail. You have to go sit down with whatever elected arm of government overseas that portion of the bureaucratic organization. So, the first place to start is telling your representative that you’re concerned. It helps if you have a petition with a lot of “voter’s” signatures.
Failing that, you can work with a PR firm if you’ve formed an organization, or you can work with the media. Then, stage your public protest. I guarantee a suitably loud but lawful protest on the public access to any event will get coverage, especially if you work with the media.
What you don’t want to do is alienate the public like Black Lives Matter has done. A t-shirt, even if it does get worn is a pretty weak and ineffective form of protest. It reminds me of an idiot I worked with who had a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker on his van. I was shocked as he had the political awareness of a brick. So I asked him what it meant. He told me how he’d thought long and hard about what sort of image he wanted, and that bumper sticker had colors really matching with the color scheme on the van. (I had to rest my head in my hands for several minutes.)
They’re not the least concerned with Peng Shuay’s safety. They’re afraid of China.
Someone should hire a plane and have it fly over the Open with a “Where is Peng Shuai?” banner.
Very sadly, I think Australia is on the way to being Communist China South.