2008 Beijing Olympic Games should be boycotted.

[kingofwale]

Profcrab said:

kingofwale said:

Profcrab said:

kingofwale said:

konnichiwa said:

hsrob said:
Here i thought this thread was about the Olympics in China......

Name a positive effect that boycotting the Olympics would have?

People will hate China more, don't go there anymore . China lose money of tourism especially Tibetians will lose money to tourism.

People will go to other countries then (Western probably) so China will lose money, Western Countries will gain money....

So far, I don't see any other positive effects..

Hmmm, Tibetian losing money due to "Olympic tourism"?? LOL, you do realize the geographical location of Tibet and those cities which host the Olympics, right?

One positive effect that boycotting Olympics will have?


*putting CHinese's horrible human right record onto the first page news.
*Forces the government to be more accountable to their actions.

Heck, worked on Soviet Union before.

We didn't buy everything under the sun from the Soviet Union. It won't really work on China. The worst thing you could do to China would be to stop buying Chinese made products (fat chance). Everything else is just a token gesture.

first of all... who are "We"? It's not like there is no alterative to cheap Chinese products at Walmart, it's not oil, for god's sake.

 

We is you too. Unless of course you don't play any video games at all or use a computer or drive a car (yes much of the production for the electronic components is done in China). You go through your stuff and see if you don't easily find 5 things that were made in China. If you want to tell me that you don't buy Chinese products all the time, I'm calling bullshit right now. Unless you are typing from the Ozarks and your only connection to the outside world is from a computer that was made 15 or so years ago using a 2400-baud modem, you are a willing consumer of Chinese products.

So are you now going to stop buying Chinese products? Stop buying computers, video game consoles, etc.?

 you said "EVERYTHING", and I disagreed, Clearly you can't go through life without buying anything from China, I don't, but I don't rely on Chinese product like people rely on oil. 

Funny, when did I ever say I'm going to stop buying Chinese product? Trying to halt Chinese  economy and making millions of people out of job is somehow your idea of "sending CHinese government" a message?