Usually, the end of a famous athlete’s career brings sadness and nostalgia. Fans beam with appreciation that a much-heralded athlete will no longer be on the field and will fade into memory as they move on to the next phase of their life. Female soccer player Megan Rapinoe called it a career on Sunday night after the women’s national team’s match against South Africa. And much of the nation is glad she is gone.
Rapinoe didn’t receive the glorious send-off reserved for many famous athletes. Only a fringe minority of people have any appreciation for her. Rapinoe is a far-left political extremist who repeatedly denigrated the country. She utilized the nation’s many liberties and freedoms to exult her privilege and then whine about her alleged oppression. The sport, and society, will be better off without comrade Rapinoe and her attempts at making the pitch a platform for her political beliefs. Good riddance to her.
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Rapinoe is a brainwashed and misguided athlete who used her platform to spread rampant misinformation. She could be the poster child of everything that is wrong with the Left. She whined about pay equality, even though her claims were never valid. She championed “equality,” all the while promoting priority and preferences — and weird, radical, and extremist ideas such as the toxic gender ideology and notions that men can be women. She sought to establish a counterculture under the guise of social justice and equality. She played for the United States, but cared more about the name on her back. Her main flag was the rainbow pride banner, not the stars and stripes of this country.
Goodbye and good riddance.
* ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/opinion/good-riddance-megan-rapinoe
