hello i'm Daisy Cousens welcome to this week in social justice
this week's biggest and baddest social justice fails
include tennis star naomi osaka's black lives matter activism and why it's
completely misplaced why jk rowling's latest novel has trans
activists all in a tizzy and depending on how long i feel like
talking about the first two topics we may even have time for a bonus topic
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tennis star naomi osaka has blurred the line between professional tennis and
social justice by engaging in relentless performative
black lives matter activism since the resumption of the
tennis season after covert 19 in august you will most
likely remember naomi osaka from 2018 when she beat serena williams in the
final of the u.s open despite serena's tantrum about how the
umpire was sexist for punishing her for breaking the rules now naomi did an
admirable job of battling through several instances of serena being a
complete brat and also an unbelievably hostile crowd
to win that match and she certainly gained a lot of
fans from her good sportsmanship and down-to-earth humble
non-political approach to things however all of that has been thrown out the
window recently because naomi who is part haitian part japanese and grew up
in new york decided she was going to use her return
to the court to opine about black lives matter now while naomi has
been vocal on social media about black lives matter for a few months now it
started bigly on august 26th after naomi had made it to the
semi-finals of the western and southern open
the tournament that just preceded the us open out of the blue naomi refused to
play her semi-final match and posted a message of
intent on twitter which stated hello as many of you are aware i was scheduled
to play my semi-final match tomorrow however before i am an athlete i am a
black woman and as a black woman i feel there are
much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention
rather than watching me play tennis i don't expect anything drastic to happen
with me not playing but if i can get a conversation started
in a majority white sport i consider that a step in the right direction
watching the continued genocide of black people at the hand of the police is
honestly making me sick to my stomach i'm exhausted of having a new
hashtag pop up every few days and i'm extremely tired
of having this same conversation over and over again when will it ever be
enough this goes on for 12 more minutes anyway
as it turned out something rather drastic did happen
because of her boycott the tournament decided to suspend a whole day of play
in a protest against racial injustice timing-wise this was soon after the
police suiting shooting of jacob blake by the way anyway because of
the tournament suspension naomi agreed to play her semi-final match which
she won but unfortunately she had to pull out of the final because of a
hamstring injury lucky for her that time off must have
worked because she did come back the very next week to win
the u.s open however evidently she had got a bit of a taste for activism
because her black lives matter advocacy did not stop with the boycott for every
match she played at the us open all seven of them
she walked onto the court wearing a mask with the name of a different black
victim of police violence written on it here's what she had to say about it at
the awards ceremony the point is to make people start talking okay i don't
know where she's been recently but if she thinks that people
aren't talking about black lives matter considering
everything that has happened since the death of george floyd
then she must be living on a planet of her own creation
but wait there's more for me i've been inside of the bubble so i'm not really
sure what's really going on in the outside world all
obviously losing its political impartiality now as a lot of you know
i'm a massive tennis fan i follow it religiously
and one of the things i have loved about the tennis world and tennis players is
that they haven't succumbed to the pressure or the temptation
to mix politics in with their profession and why would they
they're athletes and politics is not in that job description
well of course it is up to them whether they want to speak
publicly on political and world issues free speech
their public profiles are bound up in tennis not politics
until recently this seemed to be the standard that a lot of them held
but it seems that things are changing with other players like sloane stevens
and milos roundage publicly praising naomi's behavior all of which
annoys me to tears because like so many other people i watch tennis to escape
politics not to have it chucked in my face by people
who do not know what they're talking about and indeed naomi
doesn't know what she's talking about which brings me to the second
reason that this whole thing annoys me you'll notice that naomi's twitter
statement used the word genocide she said it was a continued
genocide of black people at the hand of the police
now genocide means according to britannica
the deliberate and systemic destruction of a group of people because of their
ethnicity nationality religion or race that is it
refers to a large ethnic or religious group
certainly naomi osaka and really everyone advocating for black lives
matter paints the police killing of unarmed
black people as a kind of epidemic sweeping the usa the way they
talk about it you'd think that thousands or even
millions of black people were killed by specifically white and male police
officers every year but the numbers are in on that and
that's simply not the case i'm going to show you a clip that the
very excellent brandon straka founder of the walk away campaign put
together after he attended a black lives matter protest
just watch and carefully read the statistics rolling at the bottom of the
screen as they're presented they are sourced from the washington
post database of police shootings but you don't have any information you
won't trust many of my sources you're the least educated people here
really yes yeah let's go let's do it
let's dance all right let's talk statistics because black
black people are being killed by police right what are the numbers what are the
numbers i don't need to tell you the numbers
okay i need you you don't know any understand
your privilege then the fact that your skin color does
not get you killed okay can we talk about statistics
and numbers and data and facts and evidence
what are the numbers what are the numbers right
the number of unarmed black people who were killed by police last year
was nine that's point zero zero zero zero two two percent of the entire black
population the number of white people who were
killed by the unarmed white people killed by the police last year
was 19 19. so and the number of white people who are
killed by police every year is double the amount that's killed by black people
because the facts that i'm giving you don't align with your your cult
narrative what is it about me that disgusts you
you're angry because i told you fact your privilege that's a lot of color
yeah yeah do you not understand self right now
no i'm
right but i just gave you the numbers so that the thing that you're angry about
isn't real so as you can see this is not an
epidemic or a genocide or anything of the sort
and while nine fatal shootings of unarmed black people by cops is still
too high way too high that number should be zero
naomi's activism is based on a false premise
a dangerous false premise that is the genesis for the racial tensions and
riots that are currently sweeping the usa and the thing is
even when you add police killings of unarmed black people by means other than
guns like beatings tasering and vehicles according to mapping police
violence which is a crowdfunded database that number is
still only 25 again 25 is too many it should be zero
but it is nothing like what naomi osaka and the black
lives matter crowd painted out to be now we can assume here
that naomi just like the little activists in
brandon's video simply has not looked up the facts i mean after all she admitted
in her speech that she's stuck in the social media bubble
where echo chambers are created and nobody would be presenting her with any
new information or even encouraging her to look up the stats for herself
but the higher-ups within black lives matter would absolutely know the truth
of the situation and yet they keep on with this marxist anti-capitalist and at
times violent campaign lumping in clueless celebrities with big
platforms like naomi as they go massive social justice failed to naomi
osaka and everyone who fed into her behavior on
this one
harry potter author jk rowling has once more drawn the ire of litigious trans
activists and the word brigade at large but not for the reasons she usually does
now as we know rowling has made several comments on
twitter opposing self-identification and gender-neutral spaces and reminding
people that biological sex is in fact a real thing none of which
are particularly radical positions to have nor are they hateful positions to
hold and she has said many times that she loves and supports
trans people and would oppose any discrimination that they faced
nevertheless she has been subject to some of the most outrageous hysterical
abuse from the massively tolerant totally not misogynistic left
that i have ever seen on the internet they have tried to cancel her
so many times and each time she has bounced back
because you know radical progressives are a noisy but generally tiny group of
people comparatively who really literally spend their entire lives on
twitter and don't talk to normal people however this time around it's not a
twitter post or personal essay that has incensed the woke crowd so
vehemently jk rowling's latest novel has just been
released it is part of the strike crime mystery series that she writes
under the nom de plume robert galbraith and like all murder mysteries
there is of course a murderer now in this particular novel
entitled troubled blood the murderer has been perceived to be from a couple of
reviews that came out a male serial killer who cross-dresses
as a woman and targets specifically women it seemed to start with a review
from the daily telegraph which went sort of viral that said that
the moral of the book seems to be never trust a man in a dress then of
course pink news picked it up and off it went
now the reaction from the twitterati is of course as you'd imagine you know
screaming screaming lefties crying about her
alleged transphobia and saying she's a white supremist and so hateful and how
she should die a horrible death the usual
and actually hashtag rip jk rowling was trending on twitter which is
absolutely horrifying to think that a lot of people willfully pushed
that hashtag about a human being but you know that was how i found out
about the whole thing now you can certainly imagine my shock
when i saw hashtag rip jk rowling trending but
fortunately it seemed that twitter anticipated people's shock
and made sure to include a disclaimer under the trending hashtag which read
no jk rowling is not dead but as it turns out
as usual all this outrage was based on a false premise you see
the serial killer in the book isn't actually a cross-dresser by habit
according to the spectator it amounts to this on page 75
strike is listening to the son of an investigating officer tell him what he
knows about creed the murderer he had his fail as you know penny hisket
she got away from him and gave the police a description in 71 but that
didn't help them much she said he was dark and stocky because
he was wearing a wig at the time and all patted out in a
woman's coat they caught him in the end because of
melody bauer nightclub singer looked like diana ross
creed got chatting to her at the bus stop offered her a lift then tried to
drag her into the van when she said no she escaped gave the police a proper
description and told them he'd said his house was of paradise park that's it a
novelist uses a passing detail to explain how a murderer got close to one
of his victims for presumably the victim who gave the police
a proper description did not see him in a woman's coat and wig
a critic unintentionally or not whips up a rage and thousands allow themselves to
be whipped pavlov's dogs showed more critical
independence that article was written by nick cohen who of course has actually
read the 900 page book and again of course all of
those yelling about jk rowling on twitter
have not read the book and never will and the funny thing is that even if the
serial killer in this book was habitually a cross-dresser or
transvestite and kills women that doesn't actually make him
trans even though all the activists were
yelling that this is transphobic this is a biological man who they
thought dressed as a woman and kills women but that is transvestite not
transgender and honestly it's very offensive and
indeed transphobic to lump trans people in with transvestites i mean that's
literally the stereotype that trans women have been fighting against for
decades you know being labeled just cross dresses gosh i
love it when people who try to be work to impress their friends actually fail
so hard because they actually don't understand work concepts
anyway obviously this is a massive fail for all those
horrible activists on twitter who will use any opportunity
to attack jk rowling even if it's a small review
of a 900 page book that they have not read it is insidious and very disturbing
that these people get such a kick out of being so
horribly mean and vicious to someone that they have
never met
bonus topic we have a bonus topic this week
so this doesn't actually have anything to do with social justice but a literal
ufo was spotted in new jersey the other day
oh my god
i don't know bro now apparently according to a few people who are
actually determined to spoil everything fun
it was actually the goodyear blimp all of which is really kind of a testament
to 2020. you know you think it's going to be the most
amazing thing ever because you know new decades start of the roaring 20s etc
and it ends up being the literal equivalent of the goodyear blimp but
look look at it this way the goodyear blimp
might be disappointing and bland but it does somehow manage to
stay afloat regardless of how wild the weather
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