Your thinly veiled bigotry is still just bigotry, despite hiding it behind a strawman

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              Rainbow gets you to 7, which I can do without thinking: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. 2 biggest non rainbow colours: pink, brown. Then you just need to name any of the more unique colours: teal, cyan. That’s where I got to before I had to actually stop and think. You could probably add another to the rainbow by listing purple as distinct from violet. You should probably avoid black and white in case the person is being pedantic.

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              yellow blue green cyan teal lime orange red purple pink hot pink mustard white black

              i forgot to count but should be enough! but also i’m cheating since i’m an artist

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                I don’t think “pink” and “hot pink” should count individually here.

                Or if they do, you missed the opportunity to just list all colors + “hot” infront of them lol.

                Still a passing grade regardless, so you get a hot gold star 🌟

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                  in my eyes they’re very different :D i don’t like pink, but hot pink is neat when used as an accent colour

                  thank you thank you

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          YOU ARE BEING TRANSMITTED LIVE ON PRIME TIME TELEVISION. NAME ALL THE ATHLETES THAT HAVE EVER EXISTED FOR THE LIVE AUDIENCE. QUICK FIRE GO!

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            Me: [unintelligible]

            Announcer: Speak into the mic [you buffoon]

            Me: AH! MIKE!

            Me: MICHAEL JORDAN… MIKE TYSON… MICHAEL PHELPS?

            Announcer: And that’s time! You were supposed to be naming baseball players, remember? Technically, you got two out of three, so I’m required to give you this ticket for a free hotdog.

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        In total, sure. There’s enough (in)famous athletes between football, tennis, golf, racing, etc.

        Active athletes from one type of sport? No chance.

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      Very true. Here’s my attempt

      Male
      Michael Vick
      Wayne Gretzky
      Roger Federer
      Kobe Bryant
      Shaquille O’Neal
      David Beckham
      OJ Simpson
      Babe Ruth
      Usain Bolt
      Oscar Pistorius
      Mike Tyson
      Michael Phelps
      Tony Hawk
      Tom Brady
      That car racing guy who hit his head on a rock while skiing and is in a coma
      Max Verstappen

      Female
      Serena Williams
      Venus Williams
      Brittany Griner
      That gymnastics girl making a displeased face in the meme (Mikayla Maroney?)

      So for me, even though I’m not interested in sports, OP was correct.

      I’m curious why I don’t know any female race car drivers… the argument could be made that female athletes are not as physically strong so they aren’t competitive in strength based sports, but it seems like anyone can drive a car fast? Who are the biggest female race car drivers?

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        That car racing guy who hit his head on a rock while skiing and is in a coma

        That guy lives in Switzerland, passed by his land once. But what the fuck was his name again. Ah, Michael Schumacher!

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        Racing vehicles is actually very physical. Especially at the top flight. The speed through corners puts a lot of stress on the body, just look at the necks of the top racing drivers. They’re usually pretty small guys, but are often incredibly fit. Valterri Bottas, an F1 driver, also mixes with the guys at the elite level of cycling.

        Dana Patrick is probably the most famous recent driver, but of all time, (and the most successful) it’d be Michelle Mouton by far. People might know of Sabine Schmidt and Susie Wolff, both retired, but it’s likely because of their achievements off the track, despite them being motorsport related.

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        Literally outside of the Williams Sisters and the “Transpeople are coming for your wives and daughters” scapegoats of the week like Fallon Fox and Lia Thomas… the only name that jumps to mind is Danica Patrick

        Who never finished a race in her life and is better remembered for being in softcore porn ads for GoDaddy.com and making a very questionable playable appearance in a Sonic game, than any non “First Female” accomplishments in Nascar.

        Look I’m all for breaking the glass ceiling, but Danica Patrick isn’t a woman who does any favors for people trying to get over the stereotype.

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      If we’re talking OF ALL TIME names then i can manage maybe 15. I still only got to 6 women :/

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      The ones I can name?

      LeBron James

      Shaq

      Michael Jordan

      OJ Simpson

      Magic Johnson

      Babe Ruth

      Lance Armstong

      Tony Hawk

      Jeff Gordon

      Dale Earnhardt

      Dale Earnhardt Jr.

      Mike Tyson

      And all of them mostly because of memes… isn’t it telling that the only white guy on the list in a competitive team sport is from a time before black people were allowed to compete, because it was believed that being black gave you an “unfair advantage”

      History really does repeat itself

      Now I know there are plenty of white NFL and NBA athletes, but… how often do they show up in movies alongside Bugs Bunny or wind up in fighting games from 80’s and 90’s?

      I actually had Danica Patrick on the list, but then I remembered she’s a woman…

      and I only know her because of her highly inappropiate and questionable appearance in Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed

      The only character that had less of a reason to be there was Yogscast, a Minecraft Youtuber who didn’t even know what Sonic was prior to being in the game… You pick your celebrity endorsement deals well Sega

      I also almost included Trayvon Marten, but then I remembered he wasn’t an athlete…

      Ya know it’s fucked that famous black men in the modern day fall into three categories

      1. Musicians forced to sing about criminality by a label who will drop them the second they stop living up to the stereotype then turn around and have that music used as a condemnation of their own race by bigots like Shaprio

      2. Athletes praised purely for their physical achievements and never their academic ones

      3. Regular people who spark social justice movements they never asked for by getting shot to death by some bigot.

      And the one exception is a President who created the divided America we see today not by anything he did wrong, but by simply being a successful skilled black man in a station that bigots were convinced only whitey could have.