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Apr 20, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

It’s embarrassing and sad as an American to read all the atrocities perpetrated over the past 50 years.

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Apr 20, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I've been hearing about Russian art being cancelled, but we can all dig up an old copy of Tolstoy or listen to some Stravinsky whenever. No intermediary is necessary. But this canceling of artistic performers and athletes who have honed a craft or trained a sport and have a very small window to be at their peak is despicable. It feels like a perverse continuation of the covid crap: you don't get to be on stage..you don't get to be on the court...too bad, so sad, it's for the greater good. I hate these people.

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Tennis players banned for their nationality and private medical decisions, how civilized. Pearl clutching is the last gasp of British and American empires.

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It isn't only sports. European scientist friends of mine recently told me that they've been forced by their respective countries to cease collaborating with Russian colleagues.

Time was, science was recognized as orthogonal to geopolitics. Scientific collaboration continued across the Iron Curtain throughout the Cold War. Not only is basic research of no importance to power politics, allowing such collaboration provides crucial points of contact that keep the lines of communication open.

Now, however, everything must be subordinated to political expediency.

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Apr 20, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

And all the top seeds will throw down their racquets in utter disgust, and in solidarity with their Russian tennis colleagues will refuse to attend Wimbledon. After all, these noble racqueteers offered the same honourable response when their Serbian colleague Novak Djokovic was banned from tournaments because he refuses the hcksvxxxxs. Right? They did do that. Right?? Oh yes, I quite forgot. And this is why I refuse ever to watch a tennis tournament unless the #1 player in the world, Novak D, has received an invite. And now the list groweth.

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Racism/apartheid from the aholes that cry about it

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I used to tell my kids that the only thing they can get right on the TV news is sports results and weather (as in current conditions, not the forecast); everything else is lies. But now if they report that Rafael Nadal won the Australian Open and leads in Major singles titles, without an asterisk and explanation of who was banned, it's a lie of omission. Put an asterisk on the Aussie Open and Wimbledon!

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We have met the enemy and he is us.

Pogo

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

These are the same sporting bodies who insist that trans women can compete as women-Lia Thomas, Laurel Hubbard, Rachel McKinnon-denying that being born male confers any unfair advantages, and fining female athletes for refusing to wear uncomfortably revealing cut away pants: the Norwegian handball team in 2021.

Germany's female gymnasts refused to wear revealing leotards in 2017.

Why has every part of western society become infected by this 'virtuous dictatorship'? Russians in the arts and sports effectively cancelled for ill conceived inappropriate decisions by opportunistic bureaucrats while blind eyes are turned to the unfair colonisation of women's sports by trans participants -who should compete with one another in their own category.

The virtue signalling now so prevalent has a dark side as we see-the eruption of socially sanctioned hatred and disdain: human nature being what it is, 'prejudice' never truly evaporates in a cloud of tolerance -it merely finds an acceptable outlet.

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Great roundup of our hypocrisy. As John Carter points out it's in other fields as well, just not as visible as sports.

A huge solar flare should fix it.

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Shame on Wimbledon, the people of Russia have no control over what their government does. Just as I as a US citizen don't have control over all the US bombs dropped and countries the US invades.

😅 "...and will most certainly help Ukrainian war efforts. In fact, you can feel the tide turning on the fronts of Donbas already from this decision alone."

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Spot on. I'd add that through all the world wars no composers were ever banned, because everyone understood there were things more important than politics and wars. And only no do we cancel Tchaikowsky, because the elites are utterly consumed by politics.

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Apr 20, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Stuffiest of the majors. Still demand “whites” if not mistaken. Someone has to keep the illusion of the sun never setting Empire. Of course they won’t mention their world-wide stranglehold via The City of London.

Wondering what’s going to happen in the province of Canada re hockey?

Virtue signaling know no boundaries. The legerdemain of righteousness.

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Apr 21, 2022·edited Apr 21, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

It must be illegal under the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination based on national origin. But does the law matter any longer?

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

And while Wimbeldon is ousting the damnable Russians, this may be the fate of an on street foreign reporter:

https://rumble.com/v11qadg-gonzalo-lira-is-dead-scott-ritter-inside-russia-report.html

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