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  • Protesting 2008 Olympics in China

    I don't think I'll be watching the 2008 Olympics because of China's terrible record on human rights and their treatment of Tibet. Politics may be a dumb reason to many people to avoid watching this year, but killing protesting peaceful monks who just want a free state with their own laws is much worse.
    Posted to Foreigners by donkeycat on March 28, 2008

  • Beforing considering Olympic protest or boycott...

    A few points I'd like to share; hopefully people will find them interesting, useful, enlightening, or entertaining:1. Has anyone with such heated opinions on this forum - for or against protest or boycott - stopped to ask how the chinese, taiwanese, or tibetan people feel about the subject, individually, in entirety? 2. Has anyone with such ...
    Posted to Foreigners by ziggyprophet on March 25, 2008

  • Weak logic...

    Boycott has not done much. To say the Russian boycott of the '84 games was a ''success'' seems like a bit of a stretch, and to say that the American boycott in '80 was a success has more weight, but is still pretty damn thin. Whether or not it weakened Soviet propaganda efforts significantly is debatable, but what is not debatable is that the ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Ygalbot on March 25, 2008

  • Because China is hosting these Olympics ...

    ... no boycott is necessary. China is a one-party state and, whenever a one-party state hosts an Olympics, ten year later they're circling the drain if not already down it. To wit: 1936 - Berlin Olympics; 1946 - Allied Occupation. 1980 - Moscow Olympics; 1990 - Warsaw Pact meltdown. 1984 - Sarajevo Winter Olympics; 1994 - Yugoslav Civil ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by White Camry on October 3, 2007

  • C. Hitchens < J. Carter

    Hitchens is right to decry China's backing of human rights abusers. The seduction of the Olympic boycott, however, is one that I hoped might escape him. Taking too much tea with Mia Farrow, no doubt.After those pesky Russkies invaded Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter gave them an ultimatum: Leave or we'll prevent our athletes from achieving their lives' ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by markdolley on October 1, 2007