According to the Algerian Olympic Committee [COA], Imane Khelif was born female and had every right to compete at the Olympics.

MP Whittome added, “Imane Khelif was assigned female at birth. She’s spoken about being initially banned from boxing by her dad, who said it wasn’t for girls

kitty-cri so basically too much of a girl to do boxing, but now she's made it to the fucking Olympics she's not woman enough? Poor lady can't win.

Meanwhile, Italian Family Minister Eugenia Roccella defended Carini after her Olympic dream was shattered in 46 seconds.

Skill issue. She lost the match. The fact that she slandered and missgendered someone because she lost to them is an embarrassing display of poor sportsmanship and should really be grounds for a libel lawsuit.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I don't even think it's anything to do with intersex (even if she was), it is about one thing: a brown person defeating a white person. In the western world's eyes Imane Khelif violated rule number one:

    Never outshine the master.

    White people by and large see themselves as "the master", and expect the rest of the world to just let them comfortably enjoy those feelings of superiority. This is a prime example of "ze untersmench" defeating an "aryan" fair and square, so of course they'll go to accusing Khelif of being an even BIGGER "untersmench" which ironically helps in disproving their superiority complex even faster.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      3 months ago

      Eh, I dunno. I think there's an argument to this across society but not in this case. I think that sort of thing is more pronounced when a traditionally white sport gets 'taken' by a non white competitor. No one complains when China wins at table tennis, or when Jamaica wins the sprints. Boxing has regularly had dominant POC champions both in and out of the Olympics.

      The Williams sisters in tennis on the other hand - their negative media attention was definitely racialised. Same goes for Naomi Osaka. Because tennis is a white sport.

      If Khelif was white and had more testosterone there'd still be plenty of fuss. Even Ilona Maher's (white USA womens sevens rugby) testosterone levels are being called into question despite the fact that she's a very regularly presenting woman who just has a wide jaw.

      If Khelif outwardly looked more feminine, no one would complain.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I feel like in all the coverage, especially as the italian government gets involved - like reported here - there is glaring lack of any sort of mention that the current italian government is like at least extremely right wing up to some weird neo- or post-fascism party and that's by polite society discussion standards

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    • miz [any, any]
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      3 months ago
      made me think of this Stalin quote

      It was formerly the "accepted" idea that the world has been divided from time immemorial into inferior and superior races, into blacks and whites, of whom the former are unfit for civilization and are doomed to be objects of exploitation, while the latter are the only bearers of civilization, whose mission it is to exploit the former.

      That legend must now be regarded as shattered and discarded. One of the most important results of the October Revolution is that it dealt that legend a mortal blow, by demonstrating in practice that the liberated non-European peoples, drawn into the channel of Soviet development, are not one whit less capable of promoting a really progressive culture and a really progressive civilization than are the European peoples.

      It was formerly the "accepted" idea that the only method of liberating the oppressed peoples is the method of bourgeois nationalism, the method of nations drawing apart from one another, the method of disuniting nations, the method of intensifying national enmity among the labouring masses of the various nations.

      That legend must now be regarded as refuted. One of the most important results of the October Revolution is that it dealt that legend a mortal blow, by demonstrating in practice the possibility and expediency of the proletarian, internationalist method of liberating the oppressed peoples, as the only correct method; by demonstrating in practice the possibility and expediency of a fraternal union of the workers and peasants of the most diverse nations based on the principles of voluntariness and internationalism. The existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is the prototype of the future integration of the working people of all countries into a single world economic system, cannot but serve as direct proof of this.

      The era of tranquil exploitation and oppression of the colonies and dependent countries has passed away.

      The era of liberating revolutions in the colonies and dependent countries, the era of the awakening of the proletariat in those countries, the era of its hegemony in the revolution, has begun.

      —Stalin, The International Character Of the October Revolution, 1927