The disgraced cyclist is trying, absurdly, to position himself as a cancel-culture victim.
The construction of Armstrong’s tweet is its giveaway. He claims he is particularly “fearless” because he’s someone who was “cancelled’—with the inference, as always with these claims, that it happened to him unfairly. I hate to be all Politifact-y
about this, but in case you’ve forgotten, it’s almost impossible to find a public figure beyond the 2024 GOP primary leader who has been a more relentless,about the overwhelming case that Armstrong had been blood doping during all seven of his Tour de France championships. Armstrong responded first by ignoring the accusations, then by attacking the men, and finally by spending the next half decade telling some of the most blatant lies of all time in the most cold, stone-faced manner imaginable.
And yet, here is Armstrong, somehow playing the cancel-culture victim. And in this, he is not alone. There’s Pete Rose, who not only explicitly broke baseball’s rule about gambling on his own team but in fact admitted to it and agreed to a lifetime ban for it,
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