No Respect: US Athlete Raven Saunders Risks Losing Medal After Flaunting Olympic Rules with Her Political Protest at Medal Ceremony

@2ndtimeguy If they didn't want the silver and bronze medal winners to have a moment of honor they wouldn't have put them on the stand.

@room101 blocked ... another UK aristocrat

@MarmeeMarch A new sport????

It's the shot put, one of the four foundational track and field throwing events in the Olympic Games. It's been in the Olympics for almost 150 years🤦‍♂️

@kodiac No but they earn relatively little and work hard to earn gold medals. None of that distracts from your NIMBY attitude to free speech.

@Burnley123 Disrespect for country NEVER happens in MY backyard.

@Budwick Its disrespecting your politics, which is fine.

@carpediem Me too.

@Budwick Human rights are not a political issue, so it wasn't used as a political forum. Human rights are an issue that affect every aspect of life, including sports.

This is the olympics not a forum for politics. She is there representing our country. Pretty fucking selfish of her.@NerdyPotato

@Hikingguy You're offended by her suggestion that your country values equal human rights? Why? Doesn't that represent your ideals or something?

@Budwick And as a 'free-speech absolutist' (🤣) you should be upset that anyone wants to cancel her because of an opinion they don't like. Some people are snowflakes who just want a safe space unchallenged by opinions which they find upsetting. This is bad, right?

@spjennifer Those that insist on representing their country negatively, do not deserve a giant, public, non-political stage like the Olympics. Olympic athletes are there there for their exceptional athleticism.
Their politics have no place there.

@Budwick


How did she "Represent her country negatively"? Because she chose to make a statement that you don't like or agree with??? Olympic athletes have made many so-called political statements, you're the one who's making it political when it's more about human rights than about politics...

How about the USA choosing to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Russia? wasn't that a "Political statement"?

@CookieLuvsBunny I hope it was NOT WHITE MANS MONEY

@Budwick You wrote: Being oppressed is not a human rights violation? Please! You can't be this ignorant.

@NerdyPotato Even though white people are the ones currently being oppressed, the Olympics is not the time or place. You seem to have a hard time understanding this point.

@Budwick Okay, you must be trolling because nobody can be this thick. I'll leave you to it because there is no point in discussing your fantasy world.

@Ryannnnnn Apparently so! Rah, Rah, Rah, sis boom bah, 'Murica fuck yeah! Gawd forbid someone should exercise their Free Speech and have a dissenting opinion to the "Real Patriots" 🙃

@kodiac the oppressors?

Anyone that does not believe that a minority group should be treated equally.

@CookieLuvsBunny the fact that Saunders has managed to make money from her hard work does not mean she did not come from a poor background. And just because she now has some privilege it does not mean she forgets where she came from.

And although homelessness is unrelated, since you bring it up how many of them are struggling with the issues that Saunders is trying to support? Did you know the percentage of homeless people that are black is 39%, whereby they only are up 13% of the population?
The number of homeless that belong to the LGBTQ community are also disproportionate to the population. I am sure you already understand this though since you have so much compassion for those that are homeless

@kodiac

"Its a racist symbol just like the confederate flag."

No, it's not. Her arms form a cross. Which somewhat resembles the cross on the confederate flag. That's the only similarity.

The cross that she is displaying represents the intersection, the meeting point, the unification of people regardless of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation and any other divisive factor that you care to add to the list.

WHICH MAKES IT THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG REPRESENTS.

@BabyLonia
Homelessness is not unrelated at all. Homeless people are extremely oppressed


You have absolutely no idea who I am or what background I come from. I come from a very poor background and have experienced being homeless, not having proper or enough clothing, not knowing where my next meal was coming from, and living in dangerous and substandard situations.
I know what it is to be invalidated and looked down upon. I've stood in a line outside a mission, in the cold, and had the staff there treat me like garbage; I have stolen food and clothes. I've had body lice and no clean clothes to change into or access to a shower.
I don't need any lecture from you about statistics on poverty or on any other subject for that matter. Your sexuality or race doesn't matter when you are suffering.
Making some silly gesture at the Olympics does absolutely nothing for oppressed people or for anyone but herself.

@akindheart Tamyra Mensah-Stock renewed our faith in ALL Americans when she declared that she was Proud to be an American, while draped in the US flag.

@Hikingguy that be the truth!! I am doing great...how are you my friend?

I am great. Haven’t talked to you in a bit. Glad to see you still around.@akindheart

@Hikingguy i amnot on as much as I used to be. i missed EP and the drama from there. lol