How dare the Chinese win sports?
They should be hiring black people to quit and say they’re having a breakdown due to racism and lose everything.
Real nations, true democracies, lose everything in order to help black people with their anxiety issues.
Tom Fowdy writes for RT:
Not even China’s sporting excellence can pass without comment in the United States, as a highly critical article in the New York Times on Thursday demonstrated. It’s typical of the hysteria culture that’s now rife in America.
On Thursday, the NYT published an astonishing article titled ‘The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds At Any Cost’. The piece effectively claimed China had rigged the Olympics for political purposes, accusing it of “putting tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools” and funnelling young athletes into “less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.” The prize? To earn as many gold medals as possible, in the process scoring political points and bringing glory to their country.
And no, it was not a parody.
While the medal table is turning out to be fiercely fought between the United States and China, both of whom have a rich Olympic history, the article was patronizing, ridiculous, and just outright insulting to the Chinese Olympians who dedicate their lives towards competing and excelling in their chosen events (as does any athlete from anywhere in the world).
If you accepted the New York Times’ view, you would think they have no incentive, ambition or purpose of their own to participate, but rather are content to be mere tools of the state.
Yes, that is the total narrative: Chinese people are all just slaves to the Chinese communist government.
Of course, the Americans who live in fear of having their lives destroyed by the media for making any comment disagreeing with the regime, in fear of being force-vaxxed by the government – they are all actualized individuals who live with total freedom in a free country.
More than that, though, the piece is inherently ironic and totally lacking in self-awareness, given there is arguably no other country in the world that is more competitive and pursuant of sporting supremacy than the US.
It’s easy to conjure up in our minds the stereotypical image of a US high-school jock who likes to be ‘the best’ at everything and hates to lose. He might not be representative of real US athletes, who are probably as humble, hardworking, and honourable as any others. But he’s undeniably a representation of the ‘collective psychology’ of American sporting culture, both at home and abroad.
That isn’t the point here, though. Sport is sport, and may the most deserving athletes win, wherever they are from. The fact that the New York Times could produce such an utterly dreadful article on China is not surprising, yet it is endemic of a broader trend in US media, which – in line with the government’s foreign policy – has become as negative, vilifying and outright hysterical as possible.
Is it any wonder why people in China have come to increasingly despise foreign reporting? The big three US newspapers in particular – the NYT, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal – spew an endless daily conveyor belt of anti-Chinese stories which seek to nitpick, discredit, and attack every single development within the country, often on utterly ridiculous premises.
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Now, we’re seeing the suggestion that China’s achievements at the Olympics ought to be discredited as some brutal political conspiracy which deliberately streamlines athletes into irrelevant sports – sports only Americans consider irrelevant, of course – and therefore, they don’t count.
The ludicrousness of this coverage is not about who comes out on top in Tokyo, although the New York Times’ medal table, which ranks nations by total medals won rather than golds – and so has America top – might have you believe otherwise. No, it is more a representation as to how the US has utterly lost its mind when it comes to China, across all of its media and political classes. America is increasingly insecure and stung to the point that mainstream commentators can’t even bear China doing well at sports, which is bizarre given that the US has no reasons to feel inferior here.