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As funny as that would be, I don't think the athletes would be safe making any kind of political statements directly.
by lrvick 5y ago
As funny as that would be, I don't think the athletes would be safe making any kind of political statements directly.
- outside1234 5y agoI think that sums it up. How is it possible we are having an Olympics in such a place?
- carabiner 5y agoWell, we in the US have our own prison camps. They're less racist and more driven by profiteers who are modern slaveowners. It's the same thing, less on the nose.
- parthdesai 5y agoI do get your point, but the massive difference is that you can make that statement in US without having to think about repercussions. Can't do that in China.
- dirtyid 5y ago"At least muh free speech" that changes nothing seems like the go-to American exceptionalism excuse. Latest report coming out of XJ is the mass internment phase is over. So the massive difference is is PRC doesn't mass detain minorities for longer than political goals deem necessary. Yet Americans still can't seem free speech / vote away forever for profit prison industrial complex.
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- djohnston 5y agoTBF we had the olympics in Nazi Germany so it's not like this is breaking some existing streak of IOC virtue.
- outside1234 5y agoWhy do we continue to have that venue be the place where we have our athletes go then?
- thefounder 5y agoBecause the athlets train to be the best in the world so taking that from them is punishing.
- dnautics 5y agobump it up by a year and set it up in different country.
- pacoWebConsult 5y agoBecause the international olympic committee is quite possibly the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet, which is saying something when FIFA exists.
- outside1234 5y agoAmen
- ectopod 5y agoWorld Athletics is up there too.
- ycombigator 5y ago'We have had a second videocall with Peng Shuai' levels of corruption.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoYou may want to check out 1936 Summer Olympics.
- dnautics 5y agoshouldn't there be guidance that no athelete that has ever made any kind of political statement on public or semi-public forums (facebook, twitter, tiktok, google plus) is unsafe?
- slowmovintarget 5y agoGuidance to whom? The CCP is going to do its own thing. There's no reason for it to listen to the IOC.
- dnautics 5y agocountry's state departments (or their equivalents) often give guidance to their citizens travelling abroad about what sorts of safety concerns they might face. Edit: oh i just realized I wrote "unsafe", I meant "safe".