Posted on 02/14/2022 11:24:10 AM PST by nickcarraway
After leading Team USA to a silver medal in the team figure skating competition and winning his first Olympic gold in the men’s individual event, Nathan Chen has been slammed on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
The 22-year-old Chinese American was labeled a “traitor” on the social media platform for choosing to represent the United States, and was even told to “get out of China.” After his victory Thursday, some on Weibo complained that Chen was “too white” and Americanized, citing a long list of examples where they thought Chen was “insulting China” with his actions.
Chen has previously refused to speak Chinese in interviews, claiming that his Mandarin “isn’t very good.” The Yale student put his support behind American ice dancer Evan Bates’ condemnation of China’s human rights abuses in an October interview. At the time, Bates came down hard on China’s “awful” treatment of the Uyghur people. The US did not send any diplomats to the Winter Olympics in Beijing because of the host country’s “egregious human rights abuses and atrocities.”
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Indeed. I certainly would hope so.
In fact I think we should send out all students at college level to foreign countries to “learn”. That can be their sabbatical. Let them really live in the hellholes they worship!
It’s leaders are on a par with 12-13 year old thinking.
They aren’t satisfied with their nation, and are so insecure
they are going to force wars over literally nothing.
They are cruising for a bruising, and they just may get a
real wake up call along with their bloody nostrils.
I did the same thing in the mid-1970's...if you lived through it, the change in quality and dishonesty of reporting was very clear to anyone who read widely of news. Time and Newsweak went first. US News and World Report staved things off for a few years, but it too succumbed. Then magazines like Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American all began to spout the same bullshit. It was like watching cancer spread....
Does he have parents spying in China for the US? 🤪
I didn’t think so
I’ve been seeing them slip in adjectives forever.
But I think the original point was that Twitter opinions are being used as the basis of stories and the bulk of stories.
Well, looky here. Who is discriminating against Asian Americans now?
Chuck Fina.
For a moment there it sounded like you were channeling Star Wars Jedi philosophy
The 22-year-old Chinese American……….. why can’t he just be an “American”?
Even under trying circumstances those who embrace American values do great things. 442 Regimental Combat Team. Go for broke.
Can you please get the locals to do that, while you're at it?
Accidently stumbled on this video of Chen at 10 years of age which had me watching for him in the Olympics which was Assume!
Damn!
AWESOME!
I’d prefer to exchange them, permanently.
Well, assume does make an ass of u and me.
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