ThailandUltras wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
1poseur1 wrote:
DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
A pretty interesting video (by SBI) about the inclusivity problems in cycling. Does lots of this also apply to tri?
OK so I actually watched this. What is interesting about it? I actually found it quite boring. It is an advertisement based on virtue signaling to sell bikes to a target market of woke/self hating white people. They were not as ridiculous about it as Gillette, but still very dumb. Is Treks counterpunch going to be a similarly melodramatic spot on underrepresented non binary cyclists? Again, so dumb.
I'll just chime in because I've been doing tris, cycling, XC skiing, swimming for something like 40 years now, where, at least in North America, its all white guys.
But dammit, I did my first tri in 1985. First XC ski race in 1987. First bike race in 1987.
NO WHITE GUYS STOPPED ME FROM DOING THESE SPORTS.
Today in 2019. If I go to an endurance sport event and I have to meet someone I have only met online, I usually say,
"just track down the non white athletes. And then ask for Dev. Likely there is only one of us at the event. Maybe 5. You'll find me....non white guy, 5'6" and there will be one of us".
BUT ITS NOT THE FAULT OF ANY WHITE GUYS THAT THERE ARE NOT MORE OF US
It our own f&*ing fault that we're toooooooo stupid to do these awesome sporta.
At least in my so called community, everyone is academically geeked out and trying to climb the corporate ladders. They have PLENTY OF MONEY to do these sports. And there are plenty of wealthy black guys and girls who have sufficient economic power to do these sports.
The barrier to our sports is economic, not any bogus colour barrier. Let's get that straight.
Guys and girls, men and women from my ethnic background are just too stupid to actually wake up, smell the coffee, then go smell the roses while going for a run or a bike ride. They are tied to their corporate treadmill as if their corporate position will come with them to their funeral.
Sorry for the rant, but I am sick and tired of the rest of the world making my white endurance sport friends feel guilty because we're (my ethnic community) too stupid to actually do sport. Then we have heart attacks from the stress of climbing corporate ladders at the age of 50 and wonder why GOD did not take care of us.
IN ANY CASE, PLEASE NONE OF YOU WHITE GUYS SHOULD FEEL GUILTY ABOUT US NOT DOING SPORT. ITS OUR OWN LOSS IF WE DON'T TAKE UP THE AWESOME GIFT THAT SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER US.
Sorry for all the screaming but I pretty well have zero tolerance for minorities not taking up opportunities and blaming the rest of the world.
RANT OVER....now let's go back to the wattage thread dick swinging, Zwift watts per kilo cheating, talking about aero laces, geeking out on hand positions in the windtunnel and doing everything other than actually training to get faster.
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Good on ya Dev..I reckon we need a thread about all the cool places triathletes go to train and race and the amazing people they meet..Photo's and or videos required..:-)
My ethnic community in Canada/USA needs that.
It seems like over in India 70.3 Goa sold out which is awesome!!!! newflash....Indians in India do sport....here in North America, you're an abject failure if you don't turn into CEO of Microsoft or Google or Pepsico LOL.
In any case, there is no excuse for kids of immigrants or people of colour (whatever that is supposed to mean....its not like European descent guys and girls have no skin colour). Well we all have EXACTLY THE SAME EXCUSE YOU ALL HAVE:
- Its expensive (....there are plenty of poor white people, and plenty of rich coloured people)
- We can't make time to train
- We're too lazy to train
- We're injured
- We're fat
- We have no drive
- We would rather be in the pub
- We're wasting time on Slowtwitch
- Messick and Wanda are an evil empire
- They called a no wetsuit swim....definitely can't do it NOW!!!!
OK any other universal execuses that apply to every human on the planet that makes tris hard to access? In case there are some magic brown/black people excuses that I have not heard in general let me know
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devashish_paul: Jun 15, 19 20:33