Legend shoots back, "Don’t preach to me until you have 50 years of service under your belt."
Yesterday, as the US burned from coast to coast, Surfer magazine, Bible of the Sport, endorsed the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket over Trump-Pence for the Prez/VP combo.
Comments on IG lit up, including a fiery exchange between Ian ‘Kanga’ Cairns, a still-squirting fountain of testosterone even at sixty-eight, and Tyler Wright, the two-time world champ who dropped a knee at the Tweed Heads Pro last month for four hundred and thirty-nine seconds in solitary with Black Lives Matter, the number representing “one second for every First Nations person in Australia who has lost their life in police custody since 1991.
Cairns’ crime?
A comment that read, “There’s a reason that Surfer has not been in politics and that’s because surfing is a place where we can retreat from name calling and shit-fuckery over politics, race, gender, religion etc you just shat where you eat. Surfing is about a great family where all that bullshit doesn’t matter. It’s one of the last places where we collectively agree about one thing: are the waves great.”
Pretty innocuous, you’d think.
The two-time champ, howevs, lit up.
“You may have the privilege to retreat however many don’t.”
(To which, one wit commented, “says the girl who retreats by galavanting around the globe on jets to surf in any paradise. Put your money where your mouth is then, quit surfing and “retreat” 100% to your cause.”)
Cairns wrote,
“Yes, mate, I’ve spent my whole life supporting surfing and will continue to do so until I drop. You’re a direct recipient of the work I’ve done. Don’t preach to me until you have 50 years of service under your belt.”
Wright,
“Yeah, a direct recipient of sexism, homophobia and inequality. Appreciate it.”
The holy trifecta of intersectionality!
“It should never happen, you’re a great surfer,” wrote Cairns.
What a ridiculous statement from you. You think you’re the only one who’s traveled? I’ve seen the way others live all over the world and I’ll forever feel grateful for my life. Luck of the draw. But that doesn’t mean I can’t expect my country to do better. I also see on a daily basis how fucked up the underbelly of this country is.
You’re interested in reasonable conversation? Ok, I’m game. I’ve tried on here in the past. But don’t put your disappointment on me about the tenor of politics. Look no further than the fucking mirror.
Echo chamber of hate? Dude all of you guys just repeat Fox News/ right wing talking points. All the fucking time. It’s incredibly obvious.
Kanga, surf coach to the spoiled, home schooled, wanna be surf pro. Thanks for your service.
Some people are very negative.
Very well put, and 100% true.
From someone who has seen the horrors of this world and has many decades of experience dealing with human nature.
Truth time.
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Gee.. a young Peter Cairns looks a lot like Owen Wright
“surfing is a place where we can retreat from name calling and shit-fuckery over politics, race, gender, religion etc..” Wait isn’t this the opposite description of any good surf website comment section??
Would it be sexist to suggest that was a typical over reaction from a chick?
It would if Ian Cairns was a girl.
Not reading all these comments but Cairns is a fucking kook. The kids he coaches are little fuckwits that have NO respect. Guy is a wannabe Seppo and shouldn’t be around coaching kids.
I thought for a minute this was interesting. But it wasn’t.
I still remember you saying your wife has great boobies
I wonder what white boy would’ve said had the comment been made by.Ha’a Keaulana or any other kanaka maoli. Hey figjam… Remember how many friends you made in ’75 with your “we’re number one” opinions; that’s not “service.” Take a lesson from Nat. Someone else can have a point of view and it just may be a wider one worth listening to.
Ha’a Aikau
I think you mend to write “To which, one halfwit commented”. Nothing in that comment is even remotely intelligent.
Cancel culture at its finest! Surfer magazine stay out of politics unless I agree!
Get Woke Go Broke. Tyler isn’t gaining any new fans with the holier than thou social justice song and dance…
No but she’s sure exposing what a bunch of assholes her former fans are.
Exactly. It was pretty dumb of her to attack Ian over his opinion.
C’est une tempête dans une théière.
Je suis un rockstar…
Ca plane pour moi?
Plastic Bertrand?
Oui.
All im saying is your life is hard enough at it is and on top of that your ugly wife wont let you surf as much as you want!
You deserve better, you down for some bromance?
Oh righto Kanga. Tyler shouldn’t suffer any abuse because she’s a great surfer?
What if she wasn’t? Is it ok for her to be given abuse?
Thing is, I think the one in the bubble is people like Mr. Cairns.
Such an ungrateful daughter! Kids these days only know tiktoks and minecraft. They don’t know bout them life and how children should be racist and mayosogynist like their parents!
Your life sux
im not sure why everyone gets in a tizzy when someone makes a gesture to support equal rights. I mean, why is it so hard to agree that we should all be treated equally? Shouldnt we all have the same basic opportunities? A safe neighborhood/community, decent education, opportunity for higher education, food, medical care, and a fair shot at improving our lives? the whole world seems upside down and completely idiotic. everyone is fighting with everyone about the dumbest shit. who’s benefiting from all this chaos in america? russia and china. libtard this, snowflake that, while our country crumbles and the sharks eat away at our resources. unbelievable. luckily, the idiots in this country are the minority, i.e., the politicians and all their news/internet zombies. this country is currently being led by the most unskilled, untalented, unethical people in america. the skilled, talented, visionaries wouldnt touch politics with a ten foot pole. so that vacuum is filled with religious nuts and egomanics who will do anything to be in the spotlight . . . . . if you look at history, this isnt anything out of the ordinary.
I think it’s cause western countries are the only ones who give a shit about equal rights, and to hear our own people shit on our good intentions is very frustrating and counterproductive.
Kakocracy + Idiocracy. Good jeremaid, shootsthen.