From @TheAthleticUK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 20, 2022
England's women’s soccer team has been successful in recent years. But the team doesn't look like the country it represents: Its players are almost all white, and it has a long way to go to improve diversity.https://t.co/938hVn2X6q
‘They don’t look like me. It’s off-putting’ – England women and a lack of non-white role models
Charlotte Harpur
Jul 18, 2022
Similarly, much of the popularity of the U.S. Women’s National soccer team derives from it being so white and middle class.
Boys of all races and classes tend to care about sports. But it takes a lot of social construction to get girls interested in a sport.
As I wrote in 2011 about the U.S. women’s national soccer team:
Female soccer embodies many of the most deeply-held values of white American upper middle class families: gender equality; parental (especially paternal) investment in their children; organized practice instead of play; ambitions for college scholarships; tacit race and class segregation via spending; and chauffeuring … lots and lots of chauffeuring.
So nobody in the American MSM has been so rude as to point out the remarkable lack of racial and ethnic diversity on the U.S. women’s soccer team.
Judging from the latest roster—if our World Cup team was the Tea Party, it would be denounced as nativist and racist. Certainly the women’s national soccer team would fail the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s notoriously “Four-Fifths Rule” for sniffing out possible “disparate impact” discrimination—discrimination where it doesn’t have to prove intent.
Yet Google News records no mention by the MSM of the lack of diversity on this lauded squad.
