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Algeria comes out fighting on 'born female' Imane Khelif - World Boxing News
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
made me think of this Stalin quote
—Stalin, The International Character Of the October Revolution, 1927