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| Fox News Vice President John Moody is very upset that some of the United States athletes now competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics are not white and straight. Apparently, in his mind, Olympics are for whites only. |
A greater proportion of our team has more people of color, more people from the LGBTQ community and more people from different backgrounds than in past years.
It sounds to me like whoever deals with getting athletes on the U.S team might have looked to a broader population than usual to get the cream of the crop into the Olympics.
Or much more likely, the best athletes out there come from more diverse backgrounds than they used to. America is more diverse than it used to be, so this makes total sense.
But Fox News would beg to differ.
The U.S. Olympic team's motto is Faster, Higher, Stronger. Period. Our best athletes are now competing in PyeongChang. Not our gayist, not our most African-American. Not our most Asian. Just our best.
Apparently, Fox News and its hard core racists, homeophobic fans really don't want the best of the best. As long as the atheletes are white and are not queer.
Fox News executive Vice President John Moody whined that that the U.S. Olympic Committee seems to want to change the above mentioned motto to "Darker, Gayer, Different."
Moody was terribly upset that the U.S. Olympic Committee has the gall to have qualified team members that might be African-American, Hispanic, Asian, gay, or simply not 100 percent straight and white.
"If your goal is to win medals, that won't work," Moody whined. "No sport that we are aware of awards points - or medals - for skin color or sexual orientation," he added.
"Were our Olympians selected because they're the best at what they do, or because they're the best publicity for our current obsession with having one each from Column A, B and C."?
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| African-American speed skater Shani Davis is not qualified to be in the Olympics because he is black and only white athletes are good enough, says Fox News Vice President John Moody. By the way, Davis already has four Olympic medals under his belt. |
And there you have it. White supremacy at work. What Moody basically said is that anyone who is not white and straight has lesser abilities and skills white people.
It's unfathonable to Moody that an African American, Asian, gay, whatever, could possibly have the ability to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
That's totally in league with Trump fans and avid followers of Fox News. A bit ignorant, to say the least.
A day or so after Moody's column appeared, Fox News removed it from its web site, saying Moody is just a longtime mucky muck there who doesn't have editorial control. Because of his longevity there, they didn't really vet or edit it carefully.
"John Moody's column does not reflect the views or values of Fox News and has been removed," according to a statement Fox released to the media Friday.
Riiiiight.
Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of pushback against Moody's column before it was yanked. "These athletes are at the Olympics because they already won by qualifying to represent the United States on the world's stage; and they did so despite facing discrimination from places like Fox News throughout their careers," said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
".....to suggest that race, sexuality, or gender orientation are the reasons these incredible athletes made the cut is insulting, repugnant and dismissive of a lifetime of hard work," said Catherine Sakimur of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
The column is off the web site, but it did its job. It was a nice serving of red meat for the white supremacists, alt-right, aging racists and raving lunatics that make up the core of Trump's base.I don't think we'll ever change the minds of this very base Trump base. But the louder the rest of us are when we resist these idiots, the better.
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