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Eileen Gu's Instagram comment causes fury in China
Yahoo Sports ^ | Feb 11, 2022 | Jay Busbee

Posted on 02/11/2022 3:15:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Gu’s Instagram page is a collection of motivational and inspirational slogans, a scrapbook designed to present a specific, curated image of her to the world. One user commented on an otherwise innocuous post:

“Why can you use Instagram and millions of Chinese people from mainland cannot, why you got such special treatment as a Chinese citizen. That’s not fair, can you speak up for those millions of Chinese who don’t have internet freedom,” user “cilla chan” wrote.

“Anyone can download a vpn,” Gu replied, “it’s literally free on the App Store”.

The website Protocol noted that multiple users fired back at Gu that Chinese citizens don’t have that freedom, not so subtly suggesting that if Gu is in fact a Chinese citizen alone — which she has deliberately not confirmed — she is enjoying benefits her fellow citizens can’t access.

Screenshots of the exchange were censored from the Chinese social media service Weibo.

This is the line that Gu must walk. Born and raised in the United States but competing for her mother's home country of China in these Olympics, Gu is a huge celebrity here, appearing on billboards and commercials all over the country. But accusations of favoritism would be tough to shake, and many of the rights and freedoms Gu has enjoyed for 18 years as an American — free expression, an open and unfettered internet — aren’t available to Chinese citizens. Gu is already a huge star in China, but she’s liable to face enormous backlash if she flaunts the fact that she’s not living under the same rules as her fellow citizens.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: beijing; china; eileengu; gu; olympics; skiing
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To: Responsibility2nd

Trump’s mother was a US citizen when he was born.


21 posted on 02/11/2022 4:01:56 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Immaterial. She was a foreigner. And you clearly stated that foreigners and children of foreigners are not qualified to be president.


22 posted on 02/11/2022 4:15:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She ceased being a foreigner when she became a US citizen.
Stop being obtuse.


23 posted on 02/11/2022 4:16:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Trump’s mother was born in Scotland. You know that. So by your very flawed and incorrect definition, Trump was ineligible.

A naturalized citizen cannot become President, but the children of naturalized citizen parents born after naturalization can.

Following this rule, Tiffany Trump is the only natural-born citizen child of President Trump eligible to run. Barron was born on March 20, 2006, and Melania Trump obtained her citizenship in July 2006. Ivana Trump obtained her citizenship four years after her last child was born.

-PJ

24 posted on 02/11/2022 4:17:01 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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Worst kind of traitor.


25 posted on 02/11/2022 4:52:01 PM PST by DAC21
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To: Political Junkie Too

Very interesting.

So, Don Jr. will never run for prez?


26 posted on 02/11/2022 4:59:23 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: miserare
He might.

While SCOTUS has ruled that the child of two citizen parents was definitely a natural born citizen, they have not ruled that only the child of two citizen parents is a natural born citizen.

So far, Obama was the only President born of one citizen parent and one foreign parent, (rumors of Chester A. Arthur aside).

There has never been a President born to no citizen parents.

-PJ

27 posted on 02/11/2022 5:05:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hey, eileen_gu_ You like China so much, stay there.


28 posted on 02/11/2022 5:29:08 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She’s not very bright.


29 posted on 02/11/2022 5:33:05 PM PST by simpson96
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To: LibWhacker

Not defending Gu here, but those millions of Chinese slaves need to speak up and stand up for themselves. That’s how you get freedom. That’s how we got ours in 1776. Stop whining about others exercising their freedoms.

The colonists had guns. The Chinese under the CCP rule don’t. They tried standing up to the CCP. The response from the government was the slaughter at Tiananmen.


30 posted on 02/11/2022 5:40:49 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Flick Lives

We have guns and look at our country… Spineless republicans and insane democrats run America.


32 posted on 02/11/2022 6:10:08 PM PST by dragonblustar (2 Peter 2:14,1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She should have asked for a nice steak and baked potato.
Maybe tomorrow.

CBS journalist Jamie Yuccas at the Beijing Olympics just said on “The Takeout” that she and her producer were talking privately in Beijing about needing more water in their hotel rooms and then the next day housekeeping brought them 12 bottles of water each.
https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1492334717793972230


33 posted on 02/12/2022 12:22:28 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more hash brown patties! )
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To: LibWhacker

#12 The communists murdered over 60 million of their fellow Chinese. They are still murdering those that stand up.
We had weapons and still do but the democrats are still trying to take our weapons and once they do then they will be like the communists and kill as many as they want.
The Chinese people do not have weapons as the communists there and everywhere make sure of that.


34 posted on 02/12/2022 12:28:31 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more hash brown patties! )
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To: LibWhacker

those millions of Chinese slaves need to speak up and stand up


You evidently mistake Mainland China for some western style government.

People that speak up are mercilessly beaten by the Peoples Armed Police (a division of the Ministry of State Security), forcibly dragged from their homes, and disappeared - often never to be seen again. This is the lesson of Tiananmen Square - where at least 10,000 people who spoke up and stood up were murdered by the PLA, their bodies crushed, burned, and washed down the sewer.


35 posted on 02/12/2022 6:19:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Does anyone still not get why the founders excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause?”

Natural born does NOT mean “born of two citizen parents”. It is rooted in “Natural Born Subjects” - an expression of ENGLISH common law that EVERY founding father knew. Unlike SWISS law (Vattel), ENGLISH law made anyone born within the borders of a country a citizen by birth - natural born - unless the parents were ambassadors or part of an invading army (illegal aliens).

Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are BOTH born in the USA of citizen parents and both hate the USA. My wife is an immigrant. It is illegal for her to become President, but she is a proud patriot, huge Trump fan and loathes liberals. And yes, she has noticed how many liberals are pasty white people whose parents were born in the USA...

She has no clue why so many white people hate themselves. Neither do I. But some of the most passionate patriots you could ever dream of meeting are immigrants!


36 posted on 02/12/2022 6:28:15 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Does anyone still not get why the founders excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause?”

THANK YOU!! America cannot have a President with loyalty to another entity. (Too bad China PedoJoe doesn’t know that.)


37 posted on 02/12/2022 6:29:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Mr Rogers

We threw the English out.

The founders were using Vattel’s definition.

The children of foreigners were who the founders were excluding with the natural born citizen clause because they are not naturally Americans as they are also born something else.

John Jay to George Washington:

“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”

The children of foreigners ARE foreigners, even if we foolishly give them citizenship.

The singularity of nationality is what the founders were requiring.


38 posted on 02/13/2022 10:03:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The founders were using Vattel’s definition.”

Not likely since the one understanding was universally known and USED by the Founders in the 1770s, while Vattel’s mistranslation didn’t take place until AFTER the Constitution.

That’s right: “Natural Born Citizen” was not found in ANY translation prior to the US Constitution and was not found in the original French!

From Vattel: “Les Naturels ou indigènes font ceux qui font nés dans le pays de Parens Citoyens.”

And all translations at the time of the Constitution wrote, “The natives, or indigenes...”

It wasn’t until 1797 that an American translation was made that inserted “Natural Born Citizen” for “indigènes”. And remember, indigènes is French for “indigenes”.


39 posted on 02/13/2022 12:49:27 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Why is it that you want foreigners to be eligible?
That is the opposite of what the founders intended.


40 posted on 02/13/2022 12:52:38 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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