Who knew?
Well I did not see that coming this morning. Sitting down at my computer, coffee steaming from my “I want my Beach Grit” mug, ready to start the day, I flipped open my computer’s screen and scrolled through some emails before scanning the news.
Many stories about the devastating tornadoes that smashed Kentucky over the weekend. Some on Kelly Slater’s friend Lewis Hamilton not winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. One, in Jeff Bezos’ organ The Washington Post on the women’s tennis tour pulling events out of China in protest over the treatment of Peng Shui thereby riding “a wave of surfer activism.”
What?
I dug in immediately.
On Dec. 1, concerned about the effective disappearance from public life of tennis player Peng Shuai, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that it was suspending all tournaments in China. Peng had accused a former Chinese vice premier of sexual assault — a claim immediately censored by Chinese authorities — and had not been seen without the presence of government officials since.
“If powerful people can suppress the voices of women and sweep allegations of sexual assault under the rug, then the basis on which the WTA was founded — equality for women — would suffer an immense setback,” said Steve Simon, its chief executive. “I will not and cannot let that happen to the WTA and its players.”
Then, on Dec. 6, in explicit disapproval of China’s human rights abuses, the Biden administration announced that the United States will not send government representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Australia, Canada and Britain quickly followed suit.
These were bold and, particularly with respect to the WTA, courageous moves. Withdrawing from China is likely to cost the WTA hundreds of millions of dollars. Indeed, the China market is so lucrative that many athletes and athletic organizations, such as the NBA, have made it clear that they will not jeopardize profits to trumpet humanitarian concerns.
Yet not all in the athletic community have been so craven. Some have long jumped headfirst into denouncing ghastly human rights records, withdrawing from competitions or using their public profiles to focus global attention on such issues. Among the boldest athlete activists? Surfers. While surfers were long celebrated as an apolitical bunch who wanted to do nothing but ride waves, that changed in the 1980s as it dawned on them that the pastime they saw as an escape from the world’s troubles was, in fact, embedded in its social realities.
The think piece then proceeded to spool out Tom Carroll, Martin Potter and Tom Curren boycotting South African surf contests as a protest over apartheid, “surfer activism” highlighting the importance of clean water and coastal access, Cori Schumacher boycotting the ASP World Tour after it scheduled an event in China, the World Surf League being the “first and only U.S.-based global sports league” to provide equal prize money for men and women, Tyler Wright competing with a pride flag jersey and taking a knee for 439 seconds before ending thusly.
Surfers have hardly been alone in using the platform they’ve been afforded to speak out on issues of concern. But they have been remarkably active and vocal compared with athletes in other sports. Schumacher demonstrated this commitment in 2011, when she took a lonely stand in boycotting China a full decade before women’s tennis announced it was doing the same. It remains to be seen whether the WSL — or the Association of Tennis Professionals, which sponsors the men’s tour — will find the courage to follow Schumacher’s and the WTA’s lead.
Do you feel better about yourself?
You should.
Viva surfers.
FuckingUnfuckingbelievablefucks!
Amazing product placement opportunity , well done RC advertising dept squeezing in RC into a global social issue.
Maurice said rc were gunna double down on the lez and bring back the forgotten rainbow logo but so far I’ve seen fuck all.
Nothing says “activist” like a spoiled white girl kneeling in her Rip Curl Wettie that is hand made with North Korean slave labor.
Identifying as female is such bullshit, what’s next, a guy gets sentenced to jail but can go to women’s prison?
That’s already happening, and their cellmates are getting pregnant.
All non Muslims should protest Sharia apartheid law in the Quran of Isis, Taliban, alqueda…it is in every Quran. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
The beast…this is about Jonah too!
tyler wrong, biggest kook of this century. top 2 or 3 all time.
just another sourpus lesbian, pissed off that she is a guy trapped in a woman’s body.
Unfuckingbelievable
The irony of this meme is my initial response to you was sarcastic…
Whats even more hilarious is that you took back your upvotes from previous comments after I responded to you being all serious.
https://media.makeameme.org…
So is beachgrit boycotting the boycotters? Not a word on the wsl-sanctioned carnage at nazare!
Well Chaz you always amuse me I’ve been reading your s*** for a while your book too and again this is always amusing
You should check his only fans pages …. truly gritty
Sex in the sand, gritty.
And let us not forget renowned surf activist, Conan Hayes
If I took a knee for 439 seconds I probably wouldn’t be able to stand back up. I turn 40 next year.
Can confirm.
(Although nine months of Muay Thai has brought my threshold up to about 240 seconds give or take.)
Yeah Moo Thai is brutal on the legs. I did Taekwondo from 13 to about 30 so my whole body is now broken
I’m currently walking around with a nice scrape on the top of my foot from roundhouse kicks.
Whenever I read “China,” this is how I always say it in my head…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
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Bobby Martinez was right all along, the WSL is just like the World Tennis Tour
Boycott Leemore
NZ currently has the cruelest form of apartheid, discrimination and oppression on the whole planet.
Unless you are double jabbed you cannot go into a pub or restaurant etc in that fascist commie regime island nation.
As a person who doesn’t eat out a lot I’m not too worried about the restaurants, but come on now, the pubs, THE PUBS ! !
How are the great unjabbed going to gamble on the pokies if they’re banned from the pub ?
Apartheid
Discrimination
Oppression
Will the wOsl and their wave dancing employees boycott anything and everything to do with NZ over this important matter of the public consumption of enjoyable alcoholic beverages ?
Some of the most law abiding people I know have fake vaxx docs, tomorrow we can ditch them, vote Conservative, always.
At least one doctor giving fake jab documents has been busted in NZ.
Presumably any others that may have been doing them have now stopped for fear of incarceration by the Fuhrer’s stormtroopers…
Whattabout the genios that was paid to have 10 jabs on behalf of others so they could get legit certificates. Fukken hell ….
Call it entrepreneurship, call it supply meeting demand.
I call it brilliant!
My favorite one is the italian doctor (prob not an epidemiologist but) who took a fake arm to get the shot. Didn’t work out too well
https://www.theguardian.com…
The Vaxx version of the pro athlete’s Whizzinator.
I love it!
Welcome back Bex. Hope the funeral was healing for you and your community.
👍
Western ‘leadership’ is universally awful but I think the NZ prime minister (the horse face lady, don’t recall the name) is probably the worst.
My former governor in NY killed thousands and then want after the people who tried to hold him accountable.
My opinion of what his penalty should be is not appropriate for a family website.
The former ‘president’ killed 100’s of thousands, where’s your anger? Hypocrite…
By your (mis)measure the current ‘president’ ‘killed’ even more. Funny how mindless partisanship affects math-and reasoning.
It all started with the chief qotard trump – ’15 soon to be zero’ – he blew it. He’s a failure and you are a failure too…
The former president didn’t force nursing homes to take Covid patients…the former governor did.
In fact, the former president sent the USS Mercy to NYC and also set up 1,000 hospital beds at the Javits Center where both went unused because my former governor didn’t want to to give the former president any credit.
The same thing with Michigan and New Jersey.
Unless you’re 21 you cannot go to a pub….
Unless you’re 16 and have a valid drivers license you cannot drive…
SO MUCH OPRESSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unless you’re 9 you can’t have sex with CNN producers.
Imagine trying to make pedophilia a political issue…all pedophiles deserve to rot regardless of political affiliation
Then join Conservatives and start speaking up against pedophilia being pushed in schools. The far left ARE advocating pedophilia, and if you’re not speaking up against it, then you support pedophilia with your silence.
https://www.dailywire.com/n…
https://media2.giphy.com/me…
Yep, always took you for a pedo supporter.
I know reading comprehension isnt your thing, so ive highlighted the sections for you… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Repeat after me, “I support Conservative efforts to ban far-left transgender/queer books that promote pedophilia in school libraries.”
Will you?
Serious question: How did you come to the conclusion that those books “promote pedophilia?” Just because something happened in a story doesn’t mean they are promoting it.
“And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.” Genesis 19:33-36
Ban the bible it promotes incest.
Read the Daily Wire article. There are excerpts from the books in there. Normalizing sex between a 10 year old and a grown man is pedophilia, and grooming when presented for viewing by kids in school libraries. If you don’t find that disgusting and sick, and worthy of fighting for it’s removal from school libraries, then you’re part of the problem yourself. Then you’re okay with grooming pedo porn being viewed by kids.
You know, I might be more interested / concerned if you didn’t have a history of cherry picking information and taking things out of context
I don’t cherry pick information, nor do I take things out of context. That is strictly the domain of commenters like JohnsKnees.
Cool … I’m glad we cleared that up
You mean cherry picking the information to make it sounds like these books were available to young kids, when in fact the books were available only to high schoolers? He would never do that!!!
I did read it, and none of the excerpts are promoting pedophilia. Like I said earlier, because a story includes it doesn’t mean its promotion. The bible has incest in it, does that mean the Bible is promoting it? Or Does that mean its a life lesson than can be learned from?
Another example, Lord of the Flies has murder in it, does that mean its saying murder is good? No, its life lesson.
You’re being willfully blind to blatant grooming.
So what life lesson do you see is there for a ten year old to read about a ten year old sucking a grown man’s dick?
How to avoid it and know the signs….sort of how you learn about all tragedies.
It’s not being presented as a tragedy. They’re not saying there’s anything wrong with it.
Hope you don’t have kids.
Where are they saying that? Show me one passage that says anything in that vein.
Talk about problems with reading comprehension.
How exactly do you propose I show you a passage they’re NOT saying?
I’m saying to provide a passage that shows its okay or that its advocating those actions, jesus christ dude.
Not only that the whole point of reading books in school, is to analyze them and learn lessons from the books. Did you even go to school?
It’s grooming by depicting it as normal.
We disagree.
You think it’s okay for kids, young kids to read about a ten year old performing sex on a grown man. You don’t think that is pedophilia. You think it’s some life lesson.
I find those books to be grooming youth by normalizing acts of pedophilia.
You’re the only one reading those quotes and interpreting it as normal though.
I’m not saying its normal. I’m saying its a tragedy and that reading about tragedies, especially fictional ones can be a learning experience. That is the entire point of reading curriculum in school, to fucking learn about things that are both good and bad.
Just how kids learn about very real tragedies in school everyday.
We agree murder is bad right? (I hope thats a yes) Should every book in school that has a murder be banned? Or can we read about murder in a story and teach kids, what that character did in the FICTIONAL book is bad.
Kids should not be reading about it. Period.
They don’t say it’s wrong. They don’t say it’s unlawful. They don’t say it’s morally corrupt. They don’t say it’s a tragedy. They don’t say the book is to be learned in terms of a tragedy. They don’t tell kids what the hell to think about the book whatsoever.
They just put the book in the school library and don’t restrict access. The book is placed in the alphabet soup section where nothing can be criticized because that’s homophobic, or transphobic or some other ludicrous phobic that fucking retards have decided to label criticism.
Kids are taught murder is wrong.
I’m done with this argument.
We agree it’s not normal but you think it’s okay for kids to read about pedophilia. I don’t.
Wrap it up folks, Otto needs all books to clearly state whether things are good or bad and cannot come to those conclusions on his own or through discussion.
A ten year old is incapable of drawing that conclusion. Absent direction they will assume it’s normal.
First off, at 10 you can determine whats right and wrong.
Secondly, according to your source, those books were found in a High School. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
What were you saying about not being a cherry picker?
That’s Texas.
In Virginia, in Loudoun County, those books can be found in middle school libraries too.
https://wjla.com/news/local…
You’re trying awfully goddamn hard to justify this crap.
Im going off your shit sources, get it together there pal.
You seem to know every library where Lawn Boy boy can be found, something you would like to tell us Otto?
Pedo supporters like you need to be put in an early grave.
If you really think this equates to being supportive of pedophilia, you’re a whole lot dumber than I initially thought.
Is that death threat #5? Sorry I lost count.
You support pedophilia as long as it’s only seen in high school. You’re a sick piece of shit.
Like I have said – ‘Never argue with an idiot, they’ll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience’
Just tell these self righteous assholes to fuck off. Dumbest people on the planet.
You’re just another piece of shit human who approves of grooming minors.
There’s a special place in hell for you.
I’ll see ya there, fag…
Hey, Alabama would have half the population it does if it weren’t for incest.
no ban – gimme more!
Trying to ban degenerated literature like it’s 1938. Doing god’s work again Ottz?
Those books should not be in school libraries.
Looks like Dennis Hastert decided to try his hand at writing kids books.
The legal age to enter a pub and purchase your own alcohol is 18 in NZ.
P.S.
It is also legal for 16 yr olds to drink in licensed premises if accompanied by their parents or guardians, and are eating a meal…
And how does that change the point?
What point ?
You have no point…
The point is, there are regulations in place for all sorts of things to keep society safe. How can you be so dense?
Safety is overrated.
Presumably you’re a helmet wearing boogie board riding stab/inertia subscriber.
Now bugger off back to your game of tiddlywinks before you get bitten by a shark…
“Let everyone die” – Beef & Beer, good thing you don’t make important decisions for anyone.
Banning cigies soon as well!
Jacinda would be horrified to know that I sat at my local for THREE HOURS yesterday watching football with friends, neighbors and other assorted authority flaunters of unknown Vaxx status.
In an effort to help humanity I am going to be boycotting JOB, Koa Smith, Koa Rothman, and OTC’s you tube channels starting 1.1.22.
So mainlining only Ben Gravy?
One could say hes on the Gravy Train
That’s my favourite Ozzy song.
Shit. Forgot about that one.
Activist athletes?! Why should they be applauded for their persistence?
Fact is, homeless people are the most persistent activists in society.
Not a single day goes by without them asking for change.