PATRICK CHAN, WORLD CHAMPION IN BACKPEDDALING....OR NOT

[warmuse]

YOU GUYS REMEMBER THIS POST, WHERE PATRICK CHAN SAID THINGS WHICH MADE THE EARTH SHUDDER FROM THE SHOCKWAVE?

WELL YOUR ~FAVOURITE~ FIGURE SKATING ~EXPERT~ PJ KWONG HAS GIVEN US AN EXCLUUUUUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK CHAN WHERE HE EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!! NOW THE WORLD IS FABULOUS AND....CHAAANTASTIC!!!!Exclusive: Patrick Chan explains Canada comments

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[glitterati]

His horribly under-appreciative and soul-sucking Chanadian overlords must also make him live in a bubble, pray 4 patrick

smh

[tamaryokucha]

Just curious, but what did PChan say about Joubert? I think I may have missed it.

I had no idea until you said it right now that there are accusations of human rights violations against China.

It astounds me he didn't know this. LOL I CAN'T.

[warmuse]

obviously his youtube haters have kidnapped him and raised him in captivity with no knowledge of the ACTUAL HUMAN CIVILISATION ON THIS PLANET. He's a poor dear child, you must understand ;_;

and idk I'm too sleep-deprived to remember what he said to Joubert, it's just at the back of my mind...

[tamaryokucha]

In all honesty, with Chinese parents he'd be the type I'd expect to at least be aware of this. It's probably why they immigrated in the first place (correct me if I'm wrong, I know very little about PChan because I don't curr enough).

It's fine bb! Get yourself some rest.

[warmuse]

um, just saying, many of the chinese expats are not political immigrants. Also, especially since his parents are from Hong Kong, I highly doubt they were politically persecuted for anything (PChan was born in Canada, which means that his parents left HK when it was still a British territory).

You know I don't love PChan but I have to point this out~

[stupdsxyflaneur]

Lmao, so was this bigger than I thought? The sycophantic PJ certainly jumped in fast for damage control.

[stupdsxyflaneur]

Fascinating. I'm sure they'll get this swept under the rug by tomorrow. The Canadian figure skating media machine is pretty big. Probably bigger than what the actual interest in figure skating in CAN warrants, but I won't derail.

[tesla_titania]

Wow. I read some of the comments on the original article... It certainly generated some attention for Paddy, but I don't think this is the type of attention he wanted.

[misslauraj]

Not appreciating Patrick enough has pushed him over the edge.

Can't help but feel a little responsible.

[whitebamboo]

It's true that the statements he made previously came across to me as kind of self-absorbed. Basically, it sounded like he is totally unaware of the fact that everybody makes sacrifices, and that he would only think about a country in terms of how much attention/support/money it can give him, specifically.

But without getting into various political opinions, to be honest I find the question about "siding with a country accused of human rights violations" even more stupid (as are most of the comments under the Globe and Mail article). He should be allowed to say something positive about China without people turning it into some sort of cold war geopolitical us vs. them.

[knigolubka]

I agree with all you say, especially the 2d point.

[whitebamboo]

Heh, tbh I was actually thinking a moment about how to answer that question if I were him (lol what), and...I probably wouldn't be able to answer it all that well when I was 20. (Especially if he doesn't want to piss off his Chinese fans, either, of which there are some.)

But then again, I doubt I would have said all that nonsense that got all this started at age 20, either. *shrugs*

[knigolubka]

That's the reason he's in a deep need of media training :/