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Your thinly veiled bigotry is still just bigotry, despite hiding it behind a strawman

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I honestly just know 4 of those. Hmmm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't follow sports at all and am not from the USA but I only know Serena Williams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Venus is her sister

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't know Kerrigan, the Queen of the Blades?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I have never heard of her.

Queen of the blades? That sounds like some B list super hero or villain, lol.

P.S. after reading the list again, I also recognized Anna. I believe that she is/was a chess player.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That sounds like some B list super hero or villain, lol.

Close. She's a villanous character from the video game Starcraft. Her title "Queen of the Blades" never made sense to me, until I learnt she was named after the figure skater.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which four?

The Williams sisters are obvious.

Kournikova, Strug, Kerrigan, and Harding I know just from having grown up in America in the 90s. They were all very famous for very, very different reasons.

Clark is super famous right now, as is Biles. Biles is more famous by me because she's from my home city. Ledecky I know because my family follows Olympic swimming. Kwan's name just stuck in my brain for some reason.

If I had to think of an eleventh athlete, it'd take me a while. There's another gymnast I could come up with, I'm sure. That really old one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

For me it was Williams, kurnikova and biles.