My Facebook friends are outraged because umpire Carlos Ramos penalized Serena Williams at the U.S. Open. This was a textbook example of female victimization in their view. Given that Ramos is Portuguese, however, would it make more sense for them to be outraged at Mr. Ramos being called a “thief”? That is an example of a Hispanic being victimized, no?
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> That is an example of a Hispanic being victimized, no?
No. In any conflict between two people, the Facebook mob needs to identify the good oppressed victim and the bad oppressive villain.
(Takes out my intersectional victimhood scorecard…)
In this case, we have:
1) An American woman of African descent.
Victim multiplier for being American: 1
Victim multiplier for being a woman: 2
Victim multiplier for being of African descent: 3
Total units of victimhood: 1 x 2 x 3 = 6
2) A Portuguese man.
Victim multiplier for being Portuguese: 1
Victim multiplier for being a man: 0.5
Total units of victimhood: 1 x 0.5 = 0.5
Serena Williams has 12x the victimhood units of Carlos Ramos. This is not a close call!
Scoring victimhood is not an exact science. Others might allocate units of victimhood differently. But unless you can show that Mr. Ramos is a victim in some way not listed above, I don’t see how he can possibly get enough points to win here.
What if she called him a “bad hombre”?
I have the same issue. My comment, on FB, verbatim:
“Let me read the news for you: multimillionaire and associate are found in breach of the rules, and sanctioned (the associate will admit to breaking the rules later, but say it was ok because other people might have done the same, though no evidence of this allegation is provided). The multimillionaire has a hissy fit, and behaves like a child, and she is sanctioned according to the rules. The multimillionaire call the umpire a cheat, and she is sanctioned according to the rules. After the facts the multimillionaire calls it a witch hunt, and plays a tune on the whistle for well trained lapdogs. Where did I see this before?”
@Arthur Where does incredible wealth to have the best trainers, sports scientists, personal chefs and a personal entourage figure in the victimhood scorecard?
Incredible wealth is neutral so long as the incredible wealth is held by an entertainment figure, which would include a professional athlete.
Hispanic: relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, especially those of Latin America.
You said yourself he’s Portuguese. So I guess the answer is no.
For those who deleted Facebook:
> At the 2018 US Open women’s singles final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, Ramos gave Williams three code violations. He warned Williams for receiving coaching during the match (Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, later admitted to using coaching hand signals, though he noted the rule against such signals was not always enforced).[12][1] Willams contested this, stating her coach had only given her a thumbs-up and asking that Ramos announce that she did not get coaching. After her first refutation, Williams returned to argue with Ramos between points, first asking for and then demanding an apology from the umpire for “stealing” a point from her.[13] Later in the match, Williams intentionally broke her racket against the ground, incurring a second violation from Ramos. Willams then clashed with Ramos again, first stating “You will never, ever be on a court of mine as long as you live. You owe me an apology,”, followed by “Say it. Say you’re sorry. . . . I have never cheated in my life.”, and lastly calling Ramos a “thief”.[13] This exchange resulted in Ramos issuing Williams a third violation for verbally abusing the umpire.[13] Play was then stopped, and Williams called the tournament referee and supervisor onto the court, but the two officials allowed Ramos’ violations to stand. Williams went on to lose the match to Osaka.[13] Williams later accused Ramos of sexism, claiming that men were not penalized in the same manner for the same conduct she was accused of. Williams was fined $17,000 after the match.[14]
>Willams then clashed with Ramos again, first stating “You will never, ever be on a court of mine as long as you live. ”
Is this true? Can top players determine the careers of gold-badged umpires?
>Former professional chair umpire Richard Ings has revealed the Portuguese official was paid the princely sum of $633 for taking charge of the Osaka-Williams encounter.
That’s only a shade more than the $548 that 23-time grand slam winner Williams earned every second she was on court while losing 6-2 6-4.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/incredible-truth-about-chair-umpire-in-serena-williams-controversy/news-story/d0411d6458db5fdbd74dfc58b0f5ecb8
How’s that for victimhood?
U.S. Census Bureau says Portuguese qualify as “Hispanic”: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/are-portuguese-hispanic
“The Hispanic category was invented by the Census Bureau for the 1970 Census and no one has ever been sure exactly who is supposed to be covered. Former Congressman Tony Coelho, who is of Portuguese descent and who represented a district in California’s Central Valley with many Mexican-descended Hispanics, applied for membership in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was denied entry. To prove he qualified, he submitted a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in which “Hispania” covered the whole Iberian peninsula. They let him in.”
@Townie said:
“Where does incredible wealth to have the best trainers, sports scientists, personal chefs and a personal entourage figure in the victimhood scorecard?”
It does not matter. I am not sure why. While I observe people that saying they hate the rich, there are some caveats:
* They never hate a rich person with a high victim-score. The most rabid Marxist I went to high school with loves Serena Williams *because* she is rich in spite of her victim status.
* They hate people with low victim scores even if they are poor. Poor while men are are often referred to as “white trash”. Try calling any other group of people “trash” and see how long you are allowed to have a job.
Wealth does not condemn a person who is a victim. Lack of wealth does not redeem an oppressor. Empirically, it seems the intersectional lynch mob does not care about wealth, in spite of what they say.
Portuguese and Brazilians are weird about being called hispanics. Most of them like to say they are not hispanics.
Nevermind that just north of Portugal is the Spanish province of Galicia, where a dialect of Portuguese is spoken. And that Portugal was part of Spain briefly, and by accident of history was not annexed into Spain long term.