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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I don’t claim the Founders wanted “foreigners” to be eligible. No foreigner nor any naturalized US citizen can become President. But they didn’t ban the children of legal immigrants who were born in the USA.....
Now...why do YOU think being born of citizen parents makes a difference? Joe Biden? Hillary Clinton? John F’n Kerry? Think of the countless Lilly-White, born of citizen parents for generations LIBERALS who HATE America! Bernie Sanders? Patrick Leahy? Bill Ayers?
My naturalized US citizen wife is 1000 times the patriot of all of them combined! Can’t be President but she sure is a patriot!
This just shows that Eileen is an empty headed dimwit.
She’s not really Chinese in the sense that she really lives in China all the time and has lived a Chinese experience.
She apparently hates the United States or is an attention seeker or both.
Otherwise why would she want to compete for China after living what’s essentially been an American life?
What is certain is Eileen didn’t bother to ascertain the reality that VPN apps aren’t readily available in totalitarian Mainland China.
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