AP News - Olympic fans cheer on Imane Khelif during win after she faced days of online abuse
AP News - Olympic fans cheer on Imane Khelif during win after she faced days of online abuse
A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics following a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender.
VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics, repeatedly chanting “Imane! Imane!” before the athlete who has faced a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender broke out in sobs following her win.
A large contingent of Algerian supporters called her name and waved flags throughout the women’s 66-kilogram quarterfinal at North Paris Arena, and they unleashed some booes as her opponent was introduced in the jam-packed venue.
What a shameful episode this has been worldwide, watching so many celebrities open their pieholes and say the most horrible things. (Most notably, at least for me, was JK Rowling)
And yet, none of these unathletic, lazy, keyboard commandos would have the courage to talk trash to her face.
JK was the least surprising for me. She has been a TERF for a long time, and has cozied up to fascists. She is the worst kind of human
The irony of course being JK’s insistence that she’s just trying to “protect women” and yet she’s the one helping to instigate this abuse of a woman.
Funny to think that JK’s self-insert character in HP turned out to be Umbridge.
Yeah, I don't understand people who have literally everything in life feeling some weird need to make up reasons to feel oppressed.
And yeah, when she decided to make friends with the fascists, I decided anything I ever buy again with her name attached to it will be bought second hand so she doesn't profit from it.
Maybe there should only be one Olympic class. No male or female. No heavyweight or featherweight. No drug tests. Just the best of the best. Über Olympics!
Maybe classes should be based on objective measurements like weight, height, number of limbs, and similar, not on subjective stuff like "doesn't look girly enough".
Lol short bald kings with glass!
I want a category where all contestants are required to compete in high heels.
You want the Enhanced Games
That would be pretty darn cool.
