Posted on 02/17/2022 4:48:22 PM PST by Kaslin
A few unpatriotic athletes may not destroy our nation, but a complete lack of national culture and purpose will.
Gu is not alone. Many American-born athletes, some with no ethnic Chinese background, have chosen to represent China in this year’s games. Almost all on China’s 2022 men’s hockey team were born or raised in North America. Further, many of these athletes will use a Chinese name when competing for the foreign power. American Jake Chelios will go by “Jieke Kailiaosi” when playing for Team China.
America’s best are choosing to disavow the land of their birth, the names of their fathers, and the culture of their community to give glory to China. Perhaps an exodus like this would shock more Americans if it was out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, most Americans are all too familiar with our culture’s attacks on our national identity and on each other.
One need look no further than American corporate media to feel the hate radiate off the screen. This week, Viacom-owned streaming service Showtime announced a new show called “Everything’s Gonna Be All White.” The first line of the trailer says, “I think what annoys me most about white people is when they pretend like they’re the victim,” followed by mock tears.
Each holiday or day of celebration, the media is happy to supply an endless buffet of “thing you like is bad, actually” think pieces to shove down your throat. And when creators do occasionally emerge with the ability to unite and create something that many people enjoy, they are forced to operate within an ever-shrinking window of acceptable ideas and destroyed if they soar too close to the sun.
There are many ways to understand this phenomenon, but on a basic level, Americans are attacking their neighbors’ heroes, traditions, and races. It is not difficult to imagine how this constant self-mutilation will bleed a nation out of confidence, vitality, and spirit. No one should be surprised when just 28 percent of Americans think America is on the right track.
Self-deprecation has become an American value. Is it then any wonder that athletes are not in a hurry to represent a nation that hates itself and those who call it home?
Whatever can be said about China, it does not despise the thought of its own existence. It will not apologize for expanding its influence through the Belt and Road initiative, dominating manufacturing, or openly threatening to take Taiwan. The Chinese regime and its supporters may know their country is not perfect, but it is their country. They believe it is their destiny to control and they will not listen to complaints from their enemies.
Americans have mostly tuned out the 2022 Olympics to this point, handing NBC some of its worst ratings in Olympics coverage ever. Many pundits blame American viewers’ anger about the Uyghur genocide for low interest. While there is some truth in this claim, it misses the deeper disease finally showing its symptoms in America.
Broken by the constant harassment by entrenched media, political, academic, and social classes, Americans are hesitant to cheer for those who claim to represent them because many who make the same claim have broken their trust. Americans cannot be rallied around beating China because they cannot be rallied. Passion for country, countrymen, or creed can no longer animate the American heart.
This system cannot hold if America hopes to survive. A humiliated and downtrodden nation is not worthy of preservation or investment. Despondent citizens will refuse to delay gratification and attempt to get as much meat from the dying beast before it decays completely.
They will be unwilling to raise families, volunteer, and participate in community activities like church attendance. They will instead turn to quick, easy diversions like porn and drug use. Solutions are not plentiful or easy, and I do not envy cultural or political leaders who hope to solve these problems, but ignoring them only hastens the dissolution of our nation.
A few unpatriotic athletes may not destroy our nation, but a complete lack of national culture and purpose will. Americans must suffocate the subversive elements of our society of money, power, and attention. It is time to kick the dividers of America from the podium and replace them with those honored to represent their nation.
Time to shut down the Olympics.
I’ve not watched one minute of the odimpics.
I say yank the passports of the ones badmouthing the U.S. and leave them there.
I hasten back to my childhood in the late 70’s and early 80’s and try to imagine any american representing the soviet union. Nope. We actually cared about america and what she stood for. Today if you can make a dollar or make get a medal, sure, ill represent the worst country in the world. At this point I don’t care if this country slides into civil war. We need it. And yes, I know how violent and terrible it will be. Still needs to happen.
I think that my Uncle Bill would be good at curling.
I saw him chase down a six pack on an icy hill.
Gu is an ungrateful traitor. Let her stay in China and never return to the US.
I heard the Chinese pay better as long as you win 🤪
Emperor, Premier, or Prime Minister...
Many Asians everywhere put them ahead of the country they happened to be living in...
Only two things that FDR did that was smart were setting up the internment camps (Although the damage had already been done before he did that...) and die so that Harry could order the bomb dropped...
You’re exactly right. It’s long been the case that Americans good at their sport but not good enough to be on Team USA will finesse their way onto another country’s Olympic team by securing a “granny passport” to said country based on their parents/grandparents/etc. having some connection to that country.
American have routinely participated on Olympic teams of Ireland, Italy, Israel, etc. based on family ancestory
BUT Eileen Gu is whole different kettle of fish. There’s a huge difference between her situation and, say, an American Jew who isn’t good enough to play Olympic basketball on Team USA electing to play for Israel. Gu is a star who could indeed be on Team USA but chooses the ChiComs instead.
Gu has said she feels “just as American as I am Chinese ” but chose China over America on the world stage.
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Precisely that split loyalty is why the founders excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.
They are born with the nationality of their foreign parent(s).
Natural born citizens are naturally citizens because they could not be anything else.
That singularity of nationality if what the founders were requiring.
Gu is an ungrateful traitor. Let her stay in China and never return to the US.
Oh she’s coming back all right. She’s attending stanford next fall.
No doubt she’ll be returning to a hero’s welcome in the anti american haven Bay area.
Self-flagellation, exactly. I’ve used that term a very long time about liberals, I mean commies.
As far as the Olympics, I don’t recall all this treason in the Summer games.
I still find hope in those who stay true an d they’re usually patriotic and enthusiastic. Even here in the Winter version.
The Olympics concept is obselete. Not the first time. The Ancient Greeks held it for a while. Then it was no more.
The first modern Olympics were held in Greece in 1896. So it lasted 126 years. Not a bad run. But all good things had to end at some point, right?
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I have not watched one second of the “Olympics”!
There were any number of other people in there.
None of them were paying any attention.
The first Olympics I saw on TV were the 1956 Melbourne games, which, in those days, was nothing even remotely close to the production the Games have become. In fact, I think it was just highlights, after the fact.
I remember watching some track and field events on our black & white TV. I only remember Bobby Morrow, though, because my Dad said he was the fastest man in the world. I thought that was something amazing. I was a little kid back then.
Well, they own a lot of American Politicians, Alphabet Agency Employees and Mainstream Media types, so it might be true.
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