How can I put this delicately? Who the hell cares? Why should anyone care, including Swedes “of color”? The very topic is soaked through with the core DEI myth that “diversity” has some kind of intrinsic value of its own, which it emphatically does not. Studies by “experts” with an agenda that suggest otherwise have been proven to be rigged or worse. What matters in a Chinese restaurant is not how many Nigerians work there but whether the food is any good, and may I add, “duh.” Similarly, what matters on a Olympic ski team or figure-skating team is how skilled the athletes are, not what skin shade or ancestry they have.

Why isn’t that obvious to all and irrefutable by now? Why does the A.P. think that the demographics police watch the Winter Olympics keeping score and shaking their heads in sorrow? Wait…I am being buffeted now by loud calls from the Ethics Alarms Hollywood Clip Archive… Yes, yes, I hear you, Major Clipton (“Madness! Madness!”), Inspector Wang (“Is stupid!”), Ringo Kid (“You know…morons!”), Cher (“Snap out of it!”), Dr. Ian Malcolm (“That’s one big pile of shit!”), Dudley Manlove (“Stupid stupid humans!”) and Marty McFly (“He’s an asshole!”) Shut up, all of you! Let me think!

Competitive sports are, or should be, the ultimate example of a meritocracy. Coined by Henri Didon and adopted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894, the original motto of the Olympics was “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger). Then the Great Stupid spread its dark wings over the land, and the infected International Olympic Committee added the completely superfluous “Communiter” (Together) in July 2021. What, were the Olympics before 2021 held with the athletes never gathering in one place? No, the IOC was virtue signaling, like almost everyone else. After all, Black Bobsledders Matter, or something.

The AP and the rest of the journalistic establishment are victims of IQ-diminishing feedback: they carried the messages of the Left’s propaganda so long that they came to believe them. Nothing needs to be done to increase the participation of Tierra del Fuegans in curling. Nobody except the fatally woke cares how many Vietnamese are elite Finnish ski-jumpers. Diversity is 100% irrelevant to the Winter Olympics as well as every other sport, and the entertainment value of competition is not enhanced one lumen by the skin-color of the participants.

I guess it would be churlish of me to mention, but I will anyway, that the National Basketball League has had a steady percentage of black players in the range of 75-78% for half a century without the AP complaining about it. In the National Hockey League, about 90% of the players and officials are white. Again: so what?

Oh: It is estimated that about 98% of bagpipe players are Irish or Scottish, and if there are any Swedish virtuosos, they have remained incommunicado. Clearly, something needs to be done about that…

Back to the AP: “Researchers point to social, financial and geographical barriers, and believe a big cultural shift is needed for anything to change. “It takes not years but decades,” said Josef Fahlen, professor of sport pedagogy at Umea University in Sweden.” Is “needed!”Please note that nothing in the statistics or the article suggests that winter sports competitors of color are being discriminated against, or that one of the best lugers in Norway is Kenyan but has been left off the team out of racist spite. No, it’s just that “inclusion” is so, so, well, important somehow.

Next comes equity, where black speed skaters get five seconds subtracted from their speeds because it’s only fair.

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