Vote Trump? Cant be on olympic team.

Man with broke phone

Truely horrible this one.

Journalist tweets that if you vote for Trump you must unfollow her.

A team U S cyclist sends her an emoji waving goodbye. He gets banned. They say he was using a blackface emoji because the goodbye hand was a brown.

Is this getting rediculous now. When did we decide that you have to vote liberal or else you need to be chased from your job?

https://mol.im/a/8793815

Quantum Erasure

Another day, another woke-ism,

bobbyy gee

It looks like the end of his racing career

The use of a black emoji by a white person online has been equated with blackface, showing a lack of racial awareness and temporarily adopting a racial identity.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/quinn-simmons-pulled-from-racing-until-further-notice-over-divisive-incendiary-and-detrimental-tweet-471219

suicide_circus

"A black hand waving emoji"

Jesus. This guy is literally Hitler.

Gervais08

I used a black faced emoji the other day because I was talking about Serena Williams - it was a black Woman with a crown, should I start clearing my desk ??? I was trying to be respectful and accurate!

ceadaoin.

My friend always uses brown emojis even though she is white because her husband and son are Hispanic ("brown" is how her husband and his family describe themselves, thats why I called it that) and it represents her family. I guess she's actually racist now though.

Quantum Erasure

suicide_circus wrote: »

"A black hand waving emoji"

Jesus. This guy is literally Hitler.

*OK hand sign emoji*

Richard Hillman

bobbyy gee wrote: »

It looks like the end of his racing career

The use of a black emoji by a white person online has been equated with blackface, showing a lack of racial awareness and temporarily adopting a racial identity.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/quinn-simmons-pulled-from-racing-until-further-notice-over-divisive-incendiary-and-detrimental-tweet-471219

I don't know if he's any good but it if he is it won't be the end of his career. It is an American team, so they have to go the woke route. The European Teams couldn't give a rats. Some media circles were trying to insert the BLM narrative into the Tour De France this year and they were ignored.

The Dutch, French, Spanish, Italians etc don't give a toss about identity politics. It's a ruthless sport, win at all costs.

Quantum Erasure

Sacked for bringing the noble sport of professional cycling into disrepute...

sydthebeat

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Sacked for bringing the noble sport of professional cycling into disrepute...

Sacked?

While i think this is ridiculous, the guy has just been suspended, not sacked

Donald Trump

JohnnyFlash

Lefties really need to get their house in order and focus on income inequality, economic theory, and the environment.

All this other stuff seems like a Trojan Horse tbh.

Thelonious Monk

Who f*cking cares? Seriously do you go out looking to find these things so you can get offended by people being offended? I swear you're as bad as each other.

ohnonotgmail

Man with broke phone wrote: »

Truely horrible this one.

Journalist tweets that if you vote for Trump you must unfollow her.

A team U S cyclist sends her an emoji waving goodbye. He gets banned. They say he was using a blackface emoji because the goodbye hand was a brown.

Is this getting rediculous now. When did we decide that you have to vote liberal or else you need to be chased from your job?

https://mol.im/a/8793815

so who has been sacked for voting trump? you right wingers are awful snowflakes who must spend all day scouring the internet to find stuff they can misconstrue so they can be offended.

Feisar

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Who f*cking cares? Seriously do you go out looking to find these things so you can get offended by people being offended? I swear you're as bad as each other.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

ohnonotgmail

Feisar wrote: »

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

nobody has come for anybody. the response to this is hysterical

Rothko

Gervais08 wrote: »

I used a black faced emoji the other day because I was talking about Serena Williams - it was a black Woman with a crown, should I start clearing my desk ??? I was trying to be respectful and accurate!

Off to the gulag for you, I'm afraid.

Feisar

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

nobody has come for anybody. the response to this is hysterical

A lad getting suspended for the use of an emoji is a bit hysterical though. I think people are getting tired of this crap and starting to push back.

francois

Is another Trump thread neccessary?

ohnonotgmail

Feisar wrote: »

A lad getting suspended for the use of an emoji is a bit hysterical though. I think people are getting tired of this crap and starting to push back.

well i'm certainly tired of reading posts about snowflake trump supporters

CarProblem

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well i'm certainly tired of reading posts about snowflake trump supporters

So any one who thinks this kind of rubbish is, well, rubbish is automatically a Trump supporter? I'm sick of identity politics tbh

Fuck me, it (identity politics) will be the death of this world.

breezy1985

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I don't know if he's any good but it if he is it won't be the end of his career. It is an American team, so they have to go the woke route. The European Teams couldn't give a rats. Some media circles were trying to insert the BLM narrative into the Tour De France this year and they were ignored.

The Dutch, French, Spanish, Italians etc don't give a toss about identity politics. It's a ruthless sport, win at all costs.

Wrong. It was french riders + Nico Roche and Luke Rowe (UK) who organised the BLM support on the last day. I bet most people on this thread never gave a toss about cycling until today

keano_afc

The use of a black emoji by a white person online has been equated with blackface, showing a lack of racial awareness and temporarily adopting a racial identity.

This is actually incredible.

ohnonotgmail

CarProblem wrote: »

So any one who thinks this kind of rubbish is, well, rubbish is automatically a Trump supporter? I'm sick of identity politics tbh

Fuck me, it (identity politics) will be the death of this world.

the cyclist is a trump supporter.

breezy1985

Man with broke phone wrote: »

Truely horrible this one.

Journalist tweets that if you vote for Trump you must unfollow her.

A team U S cyclist sends her an emoji waving goodbye. He gets banned. They say he was using a blackface emoji because the goodbye hand was a brown.

Is this getting rediculous now. When did we decide that you have to vote liberal or else you need to be chased from your job?

https://mol.im/a/8793815

He is suspended from his trade team not the Olympics so the OP is wrong.
And it was after they asked his to cease tweeting about it as per his contract guidelines and he refused to that he was suspended. Also this is only the first thing the public saw but maybe the team had words before the people close to him probably know this isn't an isolated tweet

Quantum Erasure

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the cyclist is a trump supporter.

And how is he a snowflake?

o1s1n

Just looking at the emoticons on my android phone, the default ones that people always use are yellow.

So are we, by default, all guilty of 'yellow face'?

Rothko

keano_afc wrote: »

This is actually incredible.

It's like something from Brass Eye.

CarProblem

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well i'm certainly tired of reading posts about snowflake trump supporters

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the cyclist is a trump supporter.

From this

bobbyy gee wrote: »

It looks like the end of his racing career

The use of a black emoji by a white person online has been equated with blackface, showing a lack of racial awareness and temporarily adopting a racial identity.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/quinn-simmons-pulled-from-racing-until-further-notice-over-divisive-incendiary-and-detrimental-tweet-471219

Simmons will now miss his scheduled debut in the Classics this autumn.

He has yet to respond to the controversy or his suspension.

So where's the moaning and how is he a snowflake?

I really don't get this globalisation of US politics. I read 538 and look at the betting markets the odd time as I like stats, numbers etc but couldn't give a bollox who actually wins the election

FTA69

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Lefties really need to get their house in order and focus on income inequality, economic theory, and the environment.

All this other stuff seems like a Trojan Horse tbh.

One hundred percent mate. This stuff isn’t even particularly left wing or class politics and nor does it address the system of capitalism and its effects. It’s basically rampant postmodernism - a type of thinking that lies in American university identity politics. The people who believe in this stuff constantly use the word “systemic” but yet their focus is always on individual transgression accompanied by a belief in an almost ‘original sin’ where instead of racism being a societal problem which should be overcome by solidarity, we have to focus on calling Barry the Binman a privileged racist who should be flagellating himself.

The vast majority of the woke stuff presents no threat to the status quo. There’s a reason Jeff Bezos will fly the Afrika flag for BLM or corporations will host a black history month; ask these people to pay more taxes and they’re likely to fund a coup. Ben and Jerry’s are another example, all over BLM but hired union busters with a view to stop their majority black and Latino workforce organising to get a pay rise. It’s easily co-opted by the rich because despite all of the shouting and roaring, it really changes nothing.

The rise of this politics and its association with the left has chronically hamstrung the ability of the left to relate to ordinary people, to focus on the big issues and to build effective organisations. Huge swathes of the working class look at the left as not being something for them now, and they’re not wrong to think that.

I’ve seen these characters wreck unions and left groups from the inside out with their nonsense, the CIA couldn’t have done a better job themselves.

Feisar

FTA69 wrote: »

The vast majority of the woke stuff presents no threat to the status quo. There’s a reason Jeff Bezos will fly the Afrika flag for BLM or corporations will host a black history month; ask these people to pay more taxes and they’re likely to fund a coup. Ben and Jerry’s are another example, all over BLM but hired union busters with a view to stop their majority black and Latino workforce organising to get a pay rise. It’s easily co-opted by the rich because despite all of the shouting and roaring, it really changes nothing

The Black Pound, the new Pink Pound.

FTA69

Basically the bulk of the left is now unconcerned with actually organising ordinary people. They’re far more interested in creating and maintaining a subculture policed by an increasingly acane jargon and set of values with everyone sh*t scared to point out basic realities because they’ll be mobbed and tarred a racist or a transphobe or whatever is flavour of the month. An atmosphere of virtue signalling, bad faith, bullying and burnout exists.

I work as a trade union organiser and if you sent half of these characters into a binman depot or a bus garage they’d be completely and utterly unable to relate to anyone in there. In 2017 I organised hundreds of African cleaners in London, do you think any of them gave a sh*te about multiple genders and privilege theory and all that rubbish? They did in their holes. They wanted decent treatment and were happy to work with black, white and Arab to achieve it.

JohnnyFlash

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Lefties really need to get their house in order and focus on income inequality, economic theory, and the environment.

I would argue that it is the left, and only the left, who focus on those three things.

Man with broke phone wrote: »

Is this getting rediculous now. When did we decide that you have to vote liberal or else you need to be chased from your job?

We didn't. In fact, nobody did. Your implying, both in the OP and in the thread title, that this man has been targeted because he is voting for Trump. That is not the case. No matter how ridiculous the emoji nonsense is (and it is ridiculous nonsense), he's not being kicked off the team for his voting record. If I robbed a bank wearing a MAGA hat would you claim I was being jailed for being a Republican? No, because the political element is just a sideshow to the main event. Same here.

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Who f*cking cares? Seriously do you go out looking to find these things so you can get offended by people being offended? I swear you're as bad as each other.

Bingo. People (on both sides of the left / right divide) are trying to outdo themselves in terms of being lightning rods for attracting offense. Those thinking that a brown hand = blackface are guilty of it. Those claiming they're outraged by all of this are also guilty of it.

The same can be said across multiple examples in today's society. There was a thread yesterday about some clown calling for Boards to be shut down on twitter. The tweet was 3 days old, had been shared twice and retweeted once. It was practically dead, as far as social media relevance goes. Until, of course, some gobdaw started a thread on here about it and it was suddenly revived.

People need to chill TF out and take a step back from the screen, stop being told what is acceptable or not and to form their own opinions. Those being outraged at 'cancel culture' (and ironically seeking to cancel it) are as much a part of the problem as those seeking to cancel everything.

Quantum Erasure

Feisar wrote: »

The Black Pound, the new Pink Pound.

No, that's something different altogether..

breezy1985

Feisar wrote: »

The Black Pound, the new Pink Pound.

Exactly that. When I was in England people involved in pride were getting sick of all the pretend support from companies during pride week same for the environmentalists. It's called washing dictators do it with sportwashing and companies us pride/green/black washing

FTA69

breezy1985 wrote: »

Exactly that. When I was in England people involved in pride were getting sick of all the pretend support from companies during pride week same for the environmentalists. It's called washing dictators do it with sportwashing and companies us pride/green/black washing

Pride and Stonewall sponsored by BAE weapon systems, a company flogging bombs to Saudi Arabia (one of the most homophobic countries in the world) to drop on Yemeni civilians.

Chips Lovell

Whatever about his antics on Twitter, he should have been suspended for that beard.

breezy1985

FTA69 wrote: »

Pride and Stonewall sponsored by BAE weapon systems, a company flogging bombs to Saudi Arabia (one of the most homophobic countries in the world) to drop on Yemeni civilians.

You have various events sponsored by conflicting companies and then you have ones that don't even give money but start adding the word pride to stuff for a week like the M&S LGBT sandwich or Sainsbury's Pride sandwich

Quantum Erasure

What's the G in the LGBT sandwich??

Gervais08

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

What's the G in the LGBT sandwich??

Guacamole and it was vile!!!

TexasTornado

o1s1n wrote: »

Just looking at the emoticons on my android phone, the default ones that people always use are yellow.

So are we, by default, all guilty of 'yellow face'?

I see you are racist against the Simpsons now. :eek:

Biker79

Tighten up university entry requirments.

Not in the top 15% of national IQ ? Well then, choose something else to do with your life.

Kicking all of these fruticakes out of university is the best way to solve the problem. Let them learn a trade and do some proper work.

Throughout history, wars were started as much to cull populations of useless people as attempts to grab resources. Wokies should take note.

RasTa

Why do people care so much what happens in America? It's a piece of **** country where if you break your arm you have to pay $16k. Dunno why the same people on here get so worked up about what happens over there

Richard Hillman

breezy1985 wrote: »

Wrong. It was french riders + Nico Roche and Luke Rowe (UK) who organised the BLM support on the last day. I bet most people on this thread never gave a toss about cycling until today

Eurosport (probably discovery in the background) were pushing it after Kevin Reza did an interview with Orla Chennoui. All that happened was a few riders wrote something on their face masks and then let Kevin Reza cycle at the front for a couple of minutes before being put back into the background pics by the last stage celebrations.

The Eurosport commentator was losing his **** over it as it transpired that nobody actually gave a **** bar ticking a box and getting on with life.

breezy1985

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Eurosport (probably discovery in the background) were pushing it after Kevin Reza did an interview with Orla Chennoui. All that happened was a few riders wrote something on their face masks and then let Kevin Reza cycle at the front for a couple of minutes before being put back into the background pics by the last stage celebrations.

The Eurosport commentator was losing his **** over it as it transpired that nobody actually gave a **** bar ticking a box and getting on with life.

I think all the guys interviewed had the masks which were organised by Roche and Rowe.
I do agree that Hatch I think it was on Eurosport made a bit too much out of it though they showed support which is good but yet he criticises it cause it's not enough for his standards

Biker79

WOKEID-19 will cause more havoc than covid.

Beasty

francois wrote: »

Is another Trump thread neccessary?

No - we have two threads already discussing the election and others discussing Trump

Thread closed