South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s office sent an email slamming “conservative cancel culture” for the criticism she received after she did not sign a bill banning biological males from competing against biological females.
Disagreeing with you is not canceling you. You’re canceling yourself by whining and crying because, God forbid, someone disagrees with you.
When you wrote that you wanted the legislature to make sure the bill did not apply to collegiate athletes!
From The Daily Caller:
“Governor Noem is very used to fighting off criticism from the left,” Noem spokesman Ian Fury said in a Wednesday email. “After all, in the past year, she was the only governor in the entire nation to never order a single business or church in her state to close. The left bullied her incessantly, but she didn’t cave.”“But if any number of conservative pundits are to be believed, that same governor who refused to cave is now caving to the NCAA and Amazon on the issue of fairness in women’s sports. What? Apparently, uninformed cancel culture is fine when the right is eating their own,” Fury said.
There is more:
Noem listed the changes she wants in the bill, but this caught everyone’s eye:
I am also concerned that the approach House Bill 1217 takes is unrealistic in the context of collegiate athletics. In South Dakota, we are proud of our universities’ athletic programs, and in particular the great strides we have taken to gain national exposure and increase opportunities for our next generation over the past two decades.South Dakota has shown that our student athletes can compete with anyone in the country, but competing on the national stage means compliance with the national governing bodies that oversee collegiate athletics. While I certainly do not always agree with the actions these sanctioning bodies take, I understand that collegiate athletics requires such a system – a fifty-state patchwork is not workable.
Tucker Carlson confronted Noem after she sent the bill back to the legislature. She wants to form a coalition:
“I’m sick and tired of the NCAA threatening states, challenging us and bullying us,” Noem said. “So we are going to build a coalition of leaders, athletes and people who want to protect women’s sports and want to make sure that our women keep Title IX in place to protect their right to be competitive and to be rewarded by participating in these team sports and make sure this coalition can fight the NCAA to make sure we are protecting Title IX.”
Her statement makes no sense. You literally wrote that you do not want the bill to affect collegiate athletes.
But if you watch the entire segment, you will see that Carlson gave her time to explain her position. She acted defensive and played victim. She did not provide specifics but relied on vagueness. Why didn’t she go into detail about the coalition? How about writing an op-ed on the said coalition?
Noem keeps talking about these scholars and renowned legal experts. She hasn’t named any of them. Not a single one.
You know why? Because Noem made it loud and clear that she does not want the bill to affect collegiate athletes. I’ve written that three times, but I do not care.
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