...This is nationalistic madness all around the world and it shows that we all are probably more than a bit crazy because we all like to see our countries and our "national heros" win in international sport competitions, don't we? Did we ever ask before, how our "successful" athletes around the world were treated before by the state and by their trainers - until something like this happened? Probably not ... :
The young triathlete took her own life after lodging complaints over alleged abuse from coaching staff.
www.bbc.com
Didn't expect to see my old rambling about the politics to get revived. Maybe it won't be entirely inappropriate if I could post an update about the aftermath of the event which instigated me to write my original post.
About the other suicide, I mean the tragic death of a triathlete mentioned above, I can only say that I feel deeply sorry for her and indignant of the unthinkable acts that her coaching staffs had committed against her, like most others who live in my country.
And the last part of the above paragraph - "like most others" is the key phrase here, because the tragedy also comforted me somehow. It made me see that those people around me are at least capable of having natural feelings about such an event, which I've begun to suspect since the other suicide of the former mayor.
I already told you how feminism is regarded almost as a crime or mental disorder by many people on the internet here so I won't repeat it now. And I suppose it wouldn't surprise you that the dead mayor is mostly being ridiculed by such anti-feminist crowd who mostly coincide with those who support the conservative party.
But what those members or supporters of the 'progressive' party have been doing after the incident is something truly surreal.
The former mayor committed suicide after his secretary charged him to have sexually harassed her for more than four years. And the first thing that the 'progressive' party did was to commemorate his death with an official 5-day funeral. They even made it a public ceremony so that a large crowd of people gathered to show their respect, despite the COVID outbreak.
They displayed placards honouring the mayor all over the city. And the leader of the 'progressive' party called a reporter "son of a b*tch" in public when he was stopped as he was leaving the funeral and asked if his party has any plan about the allegation.
Other members of the party heaped praises on the dead mayor while some even dared to throw slanders at the secretary. They had to coin the term "one-who-is-claiming-to-be-a-victim" to mention her because they couldn't call her 'a victim' as it is the practice when the alleged sex offender is not so popular as the deceased mayor. All government supported feminist activit groups fell silent on the matter, and the leader of another 'progressive' party made an official public appology when two of the statewomen from her party refused to pay respect to the ead mayor, saying "someone has to stand on the side of the victim".
And the supporters of the 'progressive' party have been in an uproar all over the internet, some claiming that she must have allured him, or that she was bribed by the conservative party, or that it was nothing unusual for the mayor to wear only briefs in front of her because that was his 'ordinary' outfit, and so on.
A popular female lawyer posted a picture of herself locking her arm with the deceased mayor to ridicule the secretary for making such a fuss out of 'nothing'.
The comment section of a popular news site is filled with insults and slanders against the secretary. And members of one of the largest internet community have set out to do detective work to identify the victim so that they can publish her personal information on the internet and encourage people to lynch mob her.
Those are the things that have happened since my previous post. And I suppose now you may understand why I feel 'comforted' at the news of such a tragic death of a young triathlete.
No one calls her "one-who-claims-to-be-a-victim" or blaming her for tainting her coach's name. They are unanimously demanding the harshest punishment for the alleged offender even before a trial. Seeing that, I can see that they are capable of feeling natural human emotions, at least - the very same people who are heaping insults on the secretary for 'causing' the death of their beloved mayor.
Maybe the triathlete was lucky to die so young before saying anything about the politics in public. If she announced her allegiance with either of the two major parties, I'm pretty sure that she would have been called a 'whore' by half of the crowd by now.
That is the extent to which politics have degenerated where I live. And if I'm not mistaken, Americans will begin to see something quite similar in the U.S. in a not so distant future. I believe that the very same causes are driving the political scene in both of the countries, and it's just that S. Korea is a step 'ahead' in that regard due to various accidental factors. I think Donal Trump is more of a phenomenon than a cause, and the latter will remain for a long time to drag America down after the former retires from the political scene.
Anyway, let's get back to the squirrels and cats. I, for one, feel an urgent need to cleanse my mind with some happy pictures of those furry animals after reporting this gloomy tale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastassja_Kinski
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This picture is from the rather conservative German weekly "Die Zeit" against German neo-nazis who liked to wear such boots for some time.
