Afrigather Aussie Olympic breakdancer Rachel Gunn, a feminine leftist white professor (that is essential), obtained zero factors for her horrible breakdancing within the 2024 Paris Video games. Her goofy kangaroo hops and lackluster spins have already spawned 1,000,000 memes and laughter throughout the globe.
You may be tempted to simply chuckle at her antics too, and provides her credit score, as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did, since she not less than “had a crack,” and “good on her.” However frankly, I’m extra inclined to aspect with Dr. Dre’s take when he stated, “It was humorous, I acquired some laughs out of it, however what the f**ok? […] There are unbelievable breakdancers out proper now; I don’t know how that occurred.”
How certainly, Dr. Dre?
The very first thing you must know is that “breakdancer” Rachel Gunn, AKA Raygunn, wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic, “Deterritorializing gender in Sydney’s breakdancing scene: a B-girl’s expertise of B-boying.”
Due to course. It couldn’t be that she was only a regular one that loved dancing and by some means ended up manner out of her league on the world stage. Her push to get a spot within the Olympics was all about DEI, ie demanding a spot as a lady in a “male dominated” sport.
What could possibly be extra woke? And what could possibly be a greater instance of prosperous white feminine liberal (AWFL) conduct than the truth that she is partaking in cultural appropriation (one thing I believed was an enormous woke no-no) of a sport that’s historically dominated by minorities? Leftists like Gunn will gladly insert themselves the place they don’t belong to advance her feminist victimhood agenda. So why no point out of breaking down the colour obstacles within the “sport,” Rachel?
To their credit score, many within the black group are agreeing with Dr. Dre, comparable to Human Occasions columnist Adam Coleman who wrote on X that Gunn can’t “PhD her manner into being extraordinarily athletic.”
One X consumer put it properly when he stated, “actual ivory tower educational transfer to misapply an intersectional justice lens onto a Black cultural factor and suppose that it turns into a system that marginalizes you since you’re a white woman that didn’t develop up within the tradition.”
Because it seems, Dr. Dre was proper, there are higher breakdancers on the market. However Rachel Gunn is accused of managing the qualification course of in order that she could be assured a spot, regardless of the very fact she couldn’t qualify for a barn dance. A Change.org petition titled “Somebody who hates corruption” is looking for motion and accountability within the choice course of for the Olympics, specializing in chef de mission Anna Meares and breakdancer Rachel Gunn.
The petition, addressed to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accuses Gunn of manipulating the choice course of to her benefit, claiming extra gifted breakdancers have been unfairly missed. It calls for public apologies from Gunn and Meares, an investigation into the choice course of, and scrutiny of Gunn’s enterprise dealings. The petition has garnered over 23,000 signatures in simply two days. To her credit score, the Sydney Morning Herald is claiming the gaming of the choice course of is just not true.
From 2021 to 2023, she competed in numerous worldwide occasions, usually inserting low on the leaderboard, with rankings ranging between fortieth and seventieth, as reported by the Olympics web site. Regardless of her struggles, she hadn’t certified for the Paris Video games till the Oceania Championships in Sydney, Australia. Nonetheless, one thing modified at that occasion. Gunn unexpectedly outperformed all her opponents, securing a first-place end and at last qualifying for the Olympic Video games by some means. She’s accused of stopping different precise gifted breakdancers from showing to compete in opposition to her.
Anna Meares, a former skilled bicycle owner/Australia’s chef de mission, superior Gunn’s feminist victimhood narrative, saying, “For those who don’t know Rachael’s story, in 2008, she was locked in a room crying being concerned in a male-dominated sport as the one lady, and it took nice braveness for her to proceed on and combat for her alternative to take part in a sport that she beloved.”
So, she locked herself in a room crying as a result of she was in a male dominated sport? And for that she deserves sympathy? A spot within the Olympics? Possibly if she had locked herself in a room working towards as an alternative of crying she may need truly improved to have been ok to signify her nation honorably.
Meares then went on to explain Gunn as one of the best feminine breakdancer within the nation, which might be even funnier than Gunn’s dancing if it weren’t an apparent lie.
Gunn turned what was once a celebration of black tradition and the freewheeling 1980’s right into a crude parody. Her antics are a first-rate instance of how the left seeks privilege by means of race and gender, solely to utterly ignore their very own guidelines when a white lady needs to make use of her gender to take advantage of black tradition.
Leftists who search to be victims given that it grants them particular privileges are sometimes stated to be competing within the “Sufferer Olympics,” and the saddest commentary of all is that apparently taking part in the sufferer can take you to the actual Olympics as properly. However there may be one upside to this: within the precise Olympics they aren’t handing out any gold-plated participation trophies. Within the precise Olympics, if you happen to don’t have advantage, you get memed to dying. Within the precise Olympics, being a sufferer nonetheless issues lower than being glorious. And if you happen to ask me, there’s a lesson there for society at giant.
