Olympics a chant away

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:10 am

Seems there is a call (by whom is not yet clear...at least to me)to boycott the Olympics in China due to Chinas rough handed treatment of the peace loving Tibetans. The head of the IOC says no to a boycott because, well...it just wouldn't be fair to the athletes. I guess the 30 or so dead in Tibet by the Chi-com's matter not. So for you expounders of human rights, would it be reasonable to use the Olympic games to lift a downtrodden country from the cloying embrace of their presumptive rulers military arms? Or should we let the games go on?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:00 am

If they are good enough to fund our occupation in Iraq, then it would be a bit hypocritical to boycott them due to theirs in Tibet.

Pihzah.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:28 am

I was against boycotting the 1980 olympics and I'm against boycotting this one. We should not politicize the olympic games.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:43 am

I agree with Gooberman. Economically and politically the U.S. cannot afford to insult China. Boycotting the USSR was no big deal. There was no economic fall out. If you think the U.S. dollar is under pressure now just PO the Chinese enough to reduce their purchase of U.S. debt.
Let the Tibetans use the international attention that China is getting to attract the world's notably short attention span on their problems. Boycotting might actually hurt them by reducing the U.S. coverage once they are not participating.
All this applies to Darfur too.

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:01 pm

The Olympics were designed to replace war, promote peace and better understanding of other cultures.

Boycotting is not the answer.

A tasteful protest during the games might be better.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:48 pm

Ford: if you do some research, you'll find the US can't disagree with china on anything

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:12 pm

Oh. Uhhh..Hmmm. What exact limits did I put on that post.

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:48 pm

Quit making excuses for neglecting your research.

Off topic: why is it called research, when more often then not its a topic that you've not presearched? It's like the infamous 'recall' that mathematicians enjoy imbedding throughout their proofs; that only serve to piss me off.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:12 pm

Eh ... Boycotting the Olympics usually just does not help in the ways some people think.

Here is a list of some instances of the Olympics getting boycotted. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ep ... index.html