China fakes racism at US Open ; Japan beats China 7-0

This is Zheng Qinwen, who won gold at the Paris Olympics, who is now playing in the US Open. Now, she allegedly faced discrimination from an audience member who yelled yellow banana and also tried to distract her serving. And that, of course, has been used by Chinese media apparatus to basically wage a war against the rest of the world, saying, look, our athletes are being discriminated against again. This audience member is the culprit, the one who did all the things, you know, discrimination, etc. Meanwhile, a defeat so bad, it's probably the most embarrassing thing to happen to sports in China. The Japanese team beat the Chinese men's soccer team 7-0 in the World Cup Qualifier game. And this is really funny. This is also really funny too. But first, the victim playing tennis. As we did the research, we concluded that basically what happened is somebody in the audience said ademo dana, which means, uh, Croatian means let's go Dana, meaning her opponent, who is Dana Vekic. But I guess ademo dana and yellow banana sounds the same. And that's how the CCP state media created, you know, all of these made up racism to try to build this idea that there's some level of discrimination in the U.S. Open. They used edited clips and it spread like wildfire on Chinese social media. Yep. Typical the Chinese Communist Party in sports, just like they did portray this idea that the team China is the victim during the Paris Olympics, even though they were caught, you know, doing all sorts of things, performance enhancing, but they were still playing victims. Even as their athletes won, they were still saying, you know, we were looked down upon and it was so unfair. But in the end, we prevailed, et cetera, et cetera. So they're always trying to create this image here that they're the ones facing the discrimination. Of course, that's far from the truth. Now, even though Jung ultimately bested her opponent, Donna Beckett, it didn't really stop the idea that Jung won through, you know, having to overcome all these hurdles. Right. These are the spam bots on X, as well as the state media headlines. The idea here is to portray her as somebody that, you know, was an underdog and basically had all of these things against her. It's not true, as we just discussed. But like everything, the Chinese Communist Party have to politicize it because, of course, they have to. So leave it to the CCP to manufacture racism when there wasn't any to begin with. I deem Madonna sounds like yellow banana. OK, by the way, I really don't get where this whole thing about the yellow banana being a racist term comes from. I did this poll earlier this morning and more than 80 percent of you didn't even know something or have never heard of it. Six percent of you said, yes, it is. And then, you know, others said no. Most of you just thought that, OK, today I just learned a new term to be racist towards someone. By the way, please don't use this to other people. It's not supposed to be racist. It's also really just not a good term to begin with. But where this came from, it's a it's a literal translation from Xiangjiao, which is Chinese, literally meaning banana man or banana woman. It's someone that was born in the West, looks Asian on the outside, but is white on the inside. OK, so it's a derogatory term, but it's not a racist term. Because most of the people that use it are from China or, you know, Southeast Asia or some other countries. So it's not really a racist term. 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Anyways, why are we going off topic? Okay, so about bananas, all right. When you think about it, Zheng Qingwen is born in China, was born in China, raised in China. She is not an ABC, an American born Chinese in this case. So it doesn't fit that racial sort of category of a banana. So there's like really no reason or rational reasons, at least to think that this was somehow supposed to be racist. Now, I've had a fair share of being called a banana man in my comments. So I want to read you some of them. Now, most of these usernames immediately tell me that they're Chinese or they're some sort of a spam bot from China. So we have at user cs8rt8dw3w, David, the way you criticize China qualifies you as a banana. At 6Euphoria6, wrong, you're an ABC banana, yellow on the outside, white on the inside. At BadImpulse17, this guy is a banana. At Ivan Houyi5410, 5ChristyLi, down with David Zhang, a yellow banana. At XuanCeMingChen, finally, there's a banana. Sold his soul to XXX, ha ha ha. Well done, David. At LuMingD-D9RF, racist banana. At X7J4, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And get rid of your American banana culture. Just doesn't make sense to me. Now, of course, this isn't the first time they've done something like this, as my research have shown. In 2021, they did the same thing in table tennis. So during a match, Liam Pitchford is a British table tennis player, and he took a pause and he ate a banana. And during this time, an audience member said this. Of course, in the edited clip or the frame after, you see that they pin the camera to the Chinese players as if now, you know, it's showing that the audience member is clearly racist towards the Chinese player because they're saying yellow banana yellow. Is that true? Well, no, because if you watch the entire match, in the beginning, this same guy, he was heard yelling, you know, go, Liam, go or something like that in the same rhythm. So he's basically trying to cheer for Liam. Nobody was caring about the Chinese player. OK, and but that's not how headlines are written in China. And that's not what the CCP did, because afterwards they protested and the organizers came out to apologize, saying that, OK, you know, there's not supposed to be racism, blah, blah, blah. But here's the thing, right? Most people don't go around to public places like in a large arena and just start saying blatant racist stuff. For one reason, because yellow banana yellow, again, it's not a common racial term, racial slur. But for two, most civilized people that I know in the West don't want to show racism in that way because that's just too embarrassing. But anyway, so you see in the video, you also you see the audience, most of them are Chinese and they weren't reacting. So it's not like this was something that was actually racist, because otherwise, I'm sure people in the audience would already be like, whoa, you know what happened? Why did you say that? Typical CCP fakes racism. Now, where does this victim mentality or this so-called racial sort of disadvantage that they're trying to portray in sports come from? Well, for one is they need to maintain the idea that there's consistent levels of nationalism involved in sports. And one of the ways is to sort of build this excuse that if we lost, it's not because we weren't skilled enough, but because there's discrimination, there's xenophobia, there's racism. And also because you constantly need to rile up your base. And what better way to do so than make people angry at the fact that your star athlete was discriminated against on an international stage, in particular, this time, U.S. Open. These are really good stories to write for headlines for Chinese state media. But sometimes things are just too embarrassing. I'm not even sure how they, the state media is supposed to handle it like this one, how Japan's men's soccer team beat China's men's soccer team seven to nothing. In the World Cup qualifier game. Now, I don't even know where to begin, because this is probably the most embarrassing thing in the history of Chinese sports. Now, the Chinese soccer team, for those of you who don't know, is really bad. When I was little, I had this doctor, this retired military surgeon, he, you know, I always go to this clinic to get IV drips when I was sick. He always told me stories like jokes. Apparently, they're jokes about the Chinese soccer team. One of them was that he said other countries' soccer team, they kick football. China's soccer team kicks watermelon. Yeah, it's not that funny. I didn't get it back then. I still don't get it. But the point I think he was trying to make was that other teams actually practice to play football or soccer, whereas Team China is kicking watermelons one foot in and, you know, the watermelon just blows up. So I guess that somehow makes sense. I don't know. Anyways, so the point is Team China is really bad, but nobody thought they could be so bad that you lose seven goals to Team Japan. This is Team Japan, right? There's so much tension between China and Japan right now. So it also felt like to me, it was that Team Japan, the athletes finally got a chance to avenge, you know, what we've been covering for the past few months, even years of China's blatant, this sort of, you know, xenophobia actually against Japan, where they went to Japan, you know, they peed on the shrine, they vandalized the shrine. They were kicking deers, all sorts of weird things, right, that they were doing for the sake of Chinese nationalism. Finally, now it's Japan's chance to get back at them. And what better way to do it than to score seven goals against Team China? And there was even a joke, again, don't quote me on this part, but they were saying how in the second half, Team Japan substituted out people like their regular players and they got substitute play. So had they not done that, maybe the score would be something like 0-10. Who knows? Anyways, jokes aside, let's go back to our main topic. Now, even though China, everybody knows that soccer in China, like it's not the best sports, right? It's not ping pong or it's not badminton, but it's still the sense of nationalism. If they had made it to the World Cup, you know, people in China would be going crazy. But to go 0-7, that's just probably the most embarrassing thing. And where would you place nationalism now? Can you even say there's anything racist or xenophobic about Japan beating China? I don't know. I can't think of any. So we'll have to see. Maybe the state media comes up with some level of excuse that we've never seen unimaginable. Who knows? But anyways, thanks so much for watching today's video. Check out our sponsor, Ground News. Like and subscribe to our channel. Comment below your thoughts on this topic as well. All right. Until next time. Bye-bye.