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An American Reuters journalist inside the Beijing Games bubble was forced to lock her Twitter down after calling China’s COVID measures “draconian,” Western media has a meltdown over Team China including Uygur athletes, Tucker Carlson goes nuts after a Chinese-American decides to compete on Team China, and Nancy Pelosi ramps up her scaremongering tactics. This is our first Beijing 2022 Quick Fix, Let’s get reporting!
First up, American Reuters journalist Mari Saito was forced to lock down comments on her Twitter account after she called Chinese staff wearing protective gear inside her Olympics hotel “draconian”. “I wrote about the EXTREMELY dystopian vibes inside the bubble at the Beijing Olympics,” her Twitter thread began. “Exhibit A: Hotel bartenders making specialty cocktails in their full PPE gear.” She had a particular fascination with her hotel’s chocolate fountain. “Whenever I walk up to it to take a look a kind sever in a face shield comes up to me and tries to get me to try one. It’s all terribly weird.”
As you can imagine, Mari’s thread was completely swamped with replies criticizing her for her take.
“Incredible,” one netizen wrote. “China wants to take our right to be infected with COVID-19.”
Another asked: “The whole dystopian vibes of… not letting 3,000 people a day die?”
“New definition for dystopia: elevating the value of human lives above profit incentives.”
Dammit wrote: “People will see this and then two hours later argue that China’s COVID numbers have to be fake. This is what an actual response to a pandemic looks like and it’s why when China has an outbreak it’s news rather than the norm.”
Her video has already attracted more than one million views, but it seems everyone was coming to roast the Reuters journalist, which is why she locked down comments on her page soon after.
Last night’s Beijing 2022 opening ceremony went without a hitch, but Western media were extremely upset with the fact that Team China includes Uygur athletes, one of whom was successful 20-year old cross country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, who was one of two athletes to finally light the Olympic torch.
Britain’s Daily Mail said: China chooses a Uyghur athlete to light flame at Winter Olympics opening ceremony in propaganda attempt to deflect accusations of genocide.
Other media doubted that she was really Uygur at all, probably because many of them really believe that they are all locked up in concentration camps. The New York Times ran with the headline, “In a provocative choice, China picks an athlete with a Uygur name to help light the cauldron,” suggesting Dinigeer may not be Uygur at all. They quickly changed their headline to mention “Uygur heritage” once they realized how ludicrous their headline was.
Today host Savannah Guthrie reportedly called the decision to include a Uyhur athlete in the opening ceremony an “in your face slap” to the Americans and their allies. Wow, they really don’t like to see Uygurs succeed, do they!
USA Today interviewed a supposed Uygur human rights activist, Rayhan Asat, whose comments were unsurprising. “The selection of an Uyghur torchbearer is a deliberate attempt to whitewash genocide, adding insult to injury for millions,” she said, before suggesting suggesting, through a disgusting holocaust comment, that taking part in the games last night may have kept Dinigeer’s family out of those fictional concentration camps.
Speaking of her family, here is her mother being interviewed about how she felt watching her daughter on TV last night from Xinjiang.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is extremely upset at 18-year-old Chinese American Olympic skier, Eileen Gu, for deciding to compete for Team China at this year’s games.
Some Americans are so worked up about Eileen’s decision that they are suggesting she shouldn’t be welcome back home in the USA. One Twitter user, Eileen Guo – her surname is spelt G-U-O and not G-U – had to change her twitter handle after receiving hate mail from netizens calling her a traitor.
And finally today, Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, is ramping up her scaremongering tactics by suggesting she’s worried about the safety of US athletes in Beijing for the games.
Of course, Nancy knows she is just playing politics here – if she really did fear for the safety of US athletes she would never have allowed them to attend in the first place.
Of course, Twitter users had a lot to say.
One netizen wrote: She’s such an insufferable witch.
Oh wait, that was me!
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