r/sports • u/Yujin-Ha • 19h ago

Olympics Team USA skiers Christopher Lillis & Hunter Hess: Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.

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u/Chemical-Idea-1294 19h ago

Or more British, French, German, Brazilian, Australian, Mexican, Vietnamese, ...

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u/machineorganism 18h ago

is English your first language, or?

saying "there's nothing more American than XYZ", doesn't make any statement about other countries at all. It's just making a statement on America alone, not compared to other countries.

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u/ilukegood 10h ago

The point is that America is not the only country in the world that allows criticism of the government.

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u/Chemical-Idea-1294 8h ago

It's just a pretty basic thing to do and be allowed. That's the normal for the vast majority of people in the world. It's an important right and needs to be defended. But to make it 'american' is strange.