She then put on a t-shirt that read “Activist Athlete,” and was swiftly bombarded with right-wing vitriol from both conservative Twitter trolls and Republican lawmakers alike.

The “scholarship underpinning” the 1619 articles have been thoroughly criticized from the left since its publication. 

Ok well in another comment upthread I do state that it will be called the Biles II, only in this one that you’re replying to do I phrase it as if the vault is already named the Biles II.

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Ok and I’m of the firm belief that you’ve not done any research into the critiques of 1619. Here’s where you can start:

Yurchenko was actually a woman, and she was the first to perform what is now known as a “Yurchenko Vault,” which is any vault with a roundoff -back handspring on the vaulting table. The move we see Biles doing in this article will be heretofore called the “Biles II,” but you will still hear people refer to it as a…

Yurchenko was a woman. She was the first to perform a vault with a back handspring onto the table. This particular move (Yurchenko followed by double piked backflip) is called the Biles II, but it will still be described as a Yurchenko double-pike because those are the constitutive elements of the move. 

The move is going to be called the “Biles II” (because creating another vaulting skill, the Biles I, that she only performed in the 2018 season).

they aren’t her neighbors, they’re under military occupation!!! you idiot!!!

motherfucker the word “falastin” has been around since Ancient Rome please shut the fuck up

It’s actually a very simple and very recent controversy and it’s wholly one sided on the part of the settler-colonial state of Israel. 

now say it without crying

How unbelievably racist can you be that you think the CIA does a “necessary job????” 

Are you out of your fucking mind

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What is this supposed to mean?

i bet you thought this sounded smart as fuck in your head 

lol this is so whiny. you are such a loser

Why the hell would you “cut a break” to someone who still goes by the honorific “Prince.”

Tamika Mallory has a history of this bullshit and a history of antisemitism that has been massaged away by gaslighters who claim it’s about Farrakhan and not about the fact that she called Jews “the people who killed Jesus”