Former British swimmer and Olympian causes outrage by comparing drag to blackface

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Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has compared drag to black face. On Twitter, the outspoken Olympic medallist asked if she’s “the only person' who is 'fed up of drag shows?” Davies said

On Twitter, the outspoken Olympic medallist asked if she’s “the only person" who is"fed up of drag shows?”

 

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good for her.

Man, it must suck to live in Britain. Citizens' freedom of speech has been eroded to petty things. It's getting the same way in the U.S. The nonsense needs to be stopped with pushback. EndLeftistIdeology EndCulturalMarxism Agenda21 Agenda2030

Hope she tells the outrage mob to take a long walk off a short pier

Your leave her alone. She is so close to perfect it's painful

Basically she just needs to stop tweeting. She's becoming a Katie Hopkins clone,

Lol - let's face it, it's an interesting angle 😂

I seriously doubt their was all that much outrage in the U.K. over this statement.

White men blackening their faces and mimicking a caricature of what they think a black man is. White men donning drag and mimicking what they think a woman is. Its a fair comparison at a superficial level.

Who was outraged?

who cares, PC wankers

She has a point. Drag is a parody of women, so she has cause to be offended, not that being offended is a big deal anyway.

Both are offensive

Ignorance knows no bounds!

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