NY Times Writer Decides American Olympian Mirai Nagasu Is Awesome Because She’s An Immigrant

February 13, 2018 – 6:51 am

Leftists love pointing out awesome things from immigrants in an attempt to protect illegal aliens. There’s just one problem, which had even other Leftists pointing it out

(HuffPost) Bari Weiss, an op-ed writer for The New York Times, triggered an intense online debateon Monday when she tweeted about Mirai Nagasu’s historic Olympic performance.

Weiss captioned a video from the NBC Olympics account “Immigrants: they get the job done,” after Nagasu became the the first American woman to land a triple axel in Olympic competition.

The problem is that Nagasu isn’t an immigrant. She was born in California to Japanese immigrants and maintained dual U.S. and Japanese citizenship until she was 22 years old.

Many people criticized Weiss’ now-deleted tweet for “othering” Nagasu ― implying that because she is not white, she is an immigrant.

Weiss pushed back, saying she’d used poetic license in quoting the line from the wildly popular Broadway show “Hamilton.”

“Wow, this is utterly breathtaking in its bad faith,” Weiss responded to one critic. “Her parents are immigrants. And my tweet was obviously meant to celebrate her accomplishments. Perhaps you’d be more comfortable with an outlet like Think Progress making the same point.”

Here’s what that looked like

So, NYT journalists can purposely misrepresent Trump’s opposition to illegal aliens by saying he’s a racist anti-immigrant xenophobia, but these same authors demand a right to poetic license when calling American citizens immigrants just because they’re not white? Really, this is what happens when your political party’s whole belief set revolves around identity politics, and when you try and make a political issue out of everything to support your agenda.

Personally, I see an American. And, BTW, she was awesomely a Colorado Avalanche Ice Girl, helping to pay for all that skating

More awesome was that triple axle.

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