Simone Biles attacked conservative activist Riley Gaines for criticizing a Minnesota high school that allowed a male student to pitch for its team

Simone Biles tried to start an empathy competition with conservative activist Riley Gaines .

Frida Ghitis: Wokeness has always fancied itself a movement rooted in empathy.

She says Biles should be able to put herself in the cleats of some high school girls who labored diligently themselves, only to have victory snatched away from them by a man-hands of a pitcher who has inarguable biological advantages, she says.

Ghitis asks: Why is she so hostile to Gaines , who is dedicating her life to keep vulnerable girls safe from any man who calls himself a woman having the freedom to prowl around locker rooms naked?.

Should she end up in their jaws, she would benefit from reconsidering whether trying to win the favor of people who would have celebrated her death had she been born to a mother who aborted her or had she excelled in a sport more easily male-invaded than women’s gymnastics. If wokeness hasn’t killed whatever seeds of empathy she has left, now would be a good time to water them by learning from someone like Riley Gaines ..