One other day, one other outdated quote exhibiting how constantly fallacious JD Vance is.
This time the feedback that resurfaced are about Simone Biles, on the event of her successful the gold medal within the Ladies’s All-Round Gymnastics competitors on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Talking on Fox Information in 2021, whereas he was nonetheless a Senate hopeful, lengthy earlier than he was probably our subsequent Vice President, he determined to make use of Simone’s determination to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics as a possibility to assault the rising acceptance of self-care as “weak.” He mentioned:
“I believe, clearly, it’s comprehensible that she was going by means of an unbelievable quantity of stress. What I discover so bizarre about this, and it displays on the media greater than it does on Simone Biles, is that we’ve tried to show a really tragic second — Simone Biles quitting the Olympic group — into this act of heroism. And I believe it displays fairly poorly on our form of therapeutic society that we attempt to reward individuals not for moments of energy, not for moments of heroism, however for his or her weakest moments.”
He continued:
“Being an athlete at that stage is extremely powerful… a traditional response on this second could be to say: ‘It’s only a disgrace that she’s going by means of this. It’s a disgrace that she stop.’ However as an alternative, what our press has completed, I believe, is flip this into this bizarre therapeutic second. ‘Let’s reward her for doing this.’ And I believe that’s actually the place the issue herein lies.”
Wow. Man, it should be really easy to guage a world-class athlete from the consolation of your sofa, huh? OK, JD. Right here’s the deal…
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Stepping away from these video games could have been an indication of bodily weak spot, clearly, however the determination was fairly clearly an instance of extraordinary energy of character and common sense. This was when Simone had “the twisties.” It’s what gymnasts name it once they immediately can’t inform which path they’re pointed whereas they’re spinning round within the air. In different phrases, the way in which all us mortal people could be if we have been immediately thrown right into a backflip. If Simone had pressured herself to go ahead even when she knew it was in harmful circumstances, that will have been weak — and silly.
So sure, the press and society at massive praised her. What she was doing was setting a terrific instance for younger individuals, for whom the reply is NOT at all times do it, do it, do it, regardless of the way you’re feeling about it.
And her reward was NOT being horribly injured. As a substitute she took the time and care to repair what she wanted to and got here again stronger than ever. And she or he gained the gold. For those who nonetheless assume she was weak or fallacious in that second, we’d suggest shutting the hell up about it. As a result of it’s clear Simone Biles is the knowledgeable on what Simone Biles wanted. And she or he has the medals to show it.
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