Revolutionary Ideas
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

This article is B/S! Serena was the epitome of toxic identity politics, hysteria and entitlement in the final.

Naomi Osaka, 20 years old, just became the first player from Japan to win a Grand Slam. Yet rather than cheer Osaka, the crowd, the commentators and US Open officials all expressed shock and grief that Serena Williams lost.

Osaka spent what should have been her victory lap in tears. It had been her childhood dream to make it to the US Open and possibly play in the final.

It’s hard to recall a more unsportsmanlike event. Here was a young girl who pulled off one of the greatest upsets ever, who fought for every point she earned, ashamed.

At the awards ceremony, Osaka covered her face with her black visor and cried. The crowd booed her. Katrina Adams, chairman and president of the USTA (and another embodiment of toxic identity politics, bigotry and stupidity), opened the awards ceremony by denigrating the winner and lionizing Williams for no real reason other than blind tribalism.

After her loss, Williams’s coach admitted to ESPN that he had, in fact, been coaching from the stands, a code violation. The referee’s warning was fair and the whole world could hear it. These are the facts yet, of course, professional victims (like Shanelle) are doing their best to engage in whataboutery, write silly platitudes and whine!