Olympic Skier Faces Avalanche Of Hate After Anti-ICE Pee Message In Snow | EUROtoday

Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy stated Sunday he has been instructed to kill himself or break his neck competing on the Winter Olympics after he posted a message towards Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Instagram put up, which inspired fellow objectors to contact their senator as Democrats attempt to negotiate reform of enforcement procedures earlier than a potential DHS shutdown, doubtless went viral for an additional cause.

Kenworthy stated on Instagram that the message within the snow, “fuck ice,” was written in pee, hinting that he urinated the phrases. (Granted, it could take fairly the peenmanship to do it.)

He stated in his new Instagram video that he has gotten principally encouraging responses and loads of “awful” ones.

“Maybe that’s the price you pay for speaking up and using your platform,” he stated, including it was essential to “stand up to injustice.”

Kenworthy recounted his private story being born in England to his British mother and rising up within the United States, for which he gained a silver medal on the 2014 Olympics. He now competes for Great Britain however nonetheless lives in America.

“You can love the U.S. and be proud to be an American ― I am ― and still think it can be better,” he stated.

Kenworthy, who’s competing within the freeski halfpipe on the Milan Cortina Games, reiterated that he doesn’t help the present administration or “evil and awful and terrifying” ICE.

The athlete stated nearly all of immigrants being focused in DHS raids are nonviolent, good individuals who got here to the U.S. searching for a greater life.

“That is literally the foundation story of the U.S.,” he stated. “I think people forget that.”