Parokki on 16 May 2008
SamuelRSmith said:
We did allow Nazi Germany to host the olympics. Or was that what you're getting at? |
Yup. The Olympics are about money and realpolitik. All the idealistic stuff is just propaganda sprouted out to make the IOC feel better about itself.
That being said, I'm not sure if these games should be boycotted or not. China has been turning into a nicer place during the last decade, and the whole country is in a very fragile state of moving from one kind of a society to another. Open hostility towards their government is only going to cause a negative reaction against Western values, and make life harder for the very activists in China we want to support.
