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Related: About this forum(Jewish Group) The Nazis used us during the 1936 Olympics. We cannot fall for the same propaganda...
The Nazis used us during the 1936 Olympics. We cannot fall for the same propaganda tactics in China next yearEditors Note: This article was written before President Bidens decision to withhold U.S. diplomatic participation from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Click here to read the authors most recent analysis on this issue.
In a recent telephone interview with Fox News, former President Donald Trump said he is opposed to a proposed boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China because it would hurt the athletes.
President Joe Biden and others have raised the idea of a potential boycott of the 2022 games to protest the Chinese governments ongoing persecution of its Muslim Uyghur citizens and other human rights abuses, such as the oppression of Tibetans and the trampling of civil liberties in Hong Kong.
America has been through this debate before in 1936, and again in 1980. The very different outcomes of those two earlier debates offer some useful lessons for our current controversy.
The Chinese regime is engaged in ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, according to the State Department. A recent report by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum found that the Chinese governments attacks on the Uyghur community are alarming in scale and severity and constitute crimes against humanity, including forced sterilization, sexual violence, enslavement, torture, forcible transfer, persecution, and imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty.
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(Jewish Group) The Nazis used us during the 1936 Olympics. We cannot fall for the same propaganda... (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Dec 2021
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JustAnotherGen
(34,323 posts)1. Agree
And I think we should boycott.
TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)2. Well, doesn't some of the responsibility fall on the athletes?
Ie. Is a medal more important then protesting the genocide? I think we all know how most of them will answer.