Right-Wing Media Launches Unhinged Attack on Simone Biles

[Jilly_in_VA]

Well, that didn’t take long.

Following superstar gymnast Simone Biles citing concerns of mental health after shockingly pulling out of the women’s team competition, a number of conservative media figures and pundits attacked her on Tuesday for supposedly being a “quitter” and “selfish sociopath” who had brought “shame on her country.”

Universally considered the greatest female gymnast of all time, Biles followed up an uncharacteristically sloppy preliminary round with an unusually poor start in the team event on Tuesday. Later saying she wasn’t in “the right headspace,” the four-time Olympic champion withdrew after she looked lost during her first vault attempt. With Biles cheering her teammates from the sideline, Team USA eventually won the silver medal.

“I know that this Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself,” a tearful Biles said afterward. “I came here, and I felt like I was still doing it for other people. So that just hurts my heart that doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people.”

After her error-prone preliminary round, meanwhile, Biles hinted that she was dealing with increased pressure and potential mental health challenges, writing on social media: “I truly do feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders at times.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-attacks-weak-simone-biles-selfish-sociopath?ref=home
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A bunch of sociopaths looking in the mirror and calling someone else names......

[arlyellowdog]

1. I like reading DU

I wish I didn’t have to see headlines what jerks are saying about everything.

[Initech]

2. What a bunch of assholes

The conservative party is now basically just the same people who beat up kids in high school. They enjoy kicking people when they are down, like the sociopaths that they are. Name calling and attacking is all they have. Pathetic.

[Omnipresent]

3. Well, they have nothing better to do than to attack minorities.

She’s as good a target to attack.

[StClone]

5. Damn Straight...they got nothing. Putin too.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I find it really sad and horrible

that we have to deal with people all the time who don't understand the mental health struggles of others. I'm sorry some of you find it annoying and difficult to be reminded of that, but it's reality. I have dealt with it both in my own family and in my professional life, and I am finding it hard to strike a balance with those who just aren't getting it.

[Beastly Boy]

6. The most decorated American gymnast ever is not a good enough role model for the right wingers?

Let me guess: she must be black.

[TheRealNorth]

7. The Republicans are the unhinged parent.....

That screams at the umpire and starting fights at their kid's pee wee baseball games.