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| US athlete blasted as ‘traitor’ on Chinese social media after 2022 Olympics gold |
| 2022-02-19 |
| [NY POST] After leading Team USA to a silver medal in the team figure skating competition and winning his first Olympic gold in the men’s individual event, Nathan Chen has been slammed on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The 22-year-old Chinese American was labeled a “traitor” on the social media platform for choosing to represent the United States, and was even told to “get out of China.” After his victory Thursday, some on Weibo complained that Chen was “too white” and Americanized, citing a long list of examples where they thought Chen was “insulting China” with his actions. Chen has previously refused to speak Chinese in interviews, claiming that his Mandarin “isn’t very good.” The Yale student put his support behind American ice dancer Evan Bates’ condemnation of China’s human rights abuses in an October interview. At the time, Bates came down hard on China’s “awful” treatment of the Uyghur people. The US did not send any diplomats to the Winter Olympics in Beijing because of the host country’s “egregious human rights abuses and atrocities.” |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 Tell me again how racist is America? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-02-19 07:58 |
| #1 Worst Olympics ever. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-19 00:40 |