Simone Biles and the Repetition of Trolls
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5 min readAug 1, 2021
No one could have predicted that Simone Biles would step back from the Olympics, but the Right’s response to Biles’ decision was 100% predictable.
At this point, whenever I see something like this in the news: a woman, especially a Black woman, asserting herself and refusing to continue a pre-scripted life for public consumption (see: Markle, Meghan; and Osaka, Naomi), I know exactly who on…
