Battles over public subsidies for pickleball courts are brewing everywhere, so the fight over funding in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is not really new news.
But on Friday, a lightning rod political figure weighed in and her dog-whistle prompted her fellow travelers to make it a racial thing. Of course. Here’s New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez with the political pickleball poach of the day:
Check out the comments underneath the post AOC retweeted.
The anti-pickleball hatred of tennis players (which we’ve spotlighted previously here) is bad enough. But the anti-white hostility is even more obnoxious and self-unaware. Have these people looked in the mirror…or, um, checked the race of AOC’s own fiancé?
As anyone who has been blessed and deeply enriched by meeting and befriending pickleball players across the country, “diversity” is far more than just skin-deep. The social magic of pickleball comes from encountering passionate players of all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, and walks of life. Comprende?
