As a conservative, I’m usually not one to call for political activism. I tend to prefer the ballot box to the soapbox. Displays like tying one’s self to trees or not buying from Giant Evil Company X “because they are mean to children and puppies,” is better left to the vast morass of leftist nut-jobs. This year, though, I’ve got to pull one from their playbook: I simply cannot, for any reason, understand why every one of the leaders of the free world are not instantly boycotting the Beijing Olympics.
I understand the grand history of the Olympics. That warring nation-states and disparate tribes put their differences aside for the glory of athletic competition. This is just wonderful, it’s also nicely meaningless. The world has changed since then. For instance, back then, some of these same competitors killed children when they thought them imperfect and viewed women as property. Now, children are “just so darn precious, it takes a village to raise them right,” and woman aren’t just the equals of men, well, heck, they’re better! Just ask anyone!
China isn’t any better than those glorious misogynist pederasts of yesteryear. The vast yellow horde has been openly killing of its own young (and old for that matter) and the rest of the word should just mind it’s damn business about it. They are brutally oppressive; just ask Tibet, Taiwan, or heck, just watch that good ol’ footage from Tiananmen. Free-speech in China is as realistic as free love in a whorehouse. In every way the cripplingly authoritarian leadership in China stands opposed to everything that the “civilized” nations of the world stand for. We are, however, asked to ignore this… anyone care to ask why?
Because, in the words of The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, “”I believe a boycott of the Beijing Olympics would unfairly harm our athletes who have worked so hard to prepare for the competition.”
Well, how ‘bout y’all fancy athletes have a seat at the table and have a big ol’ helpin’ of “get the fuck over it”. The minor unfairness you might suffer practicing a sport that no one really gives a crap about anyway is pretty minor compared to the unfairness the Chinese people suffer every day.
Pelosi, supposedly, is a big anti-china leader amongst the lefties, but she’s ok with us participating in the games out of some misguided sense of fairness. Britain has no intentions of boycotting under any circumstances, apparently, likely including open nuclear aggression, because the “games are sacred”. France is going to ‘wait and see” how well China behaves. “Well gosh, killing Tibetans for speaking is pretty bad, but let’s see if they do something really nasty, like make people work 5 whole 8 hour days in a week!”
The scary thing is that out of all the so-called “enlightened” countries who are hiding behind this “Olympic spirit” bullshit, we’re being put in our place by Germany. Germany! The god-damned Nazis are telling us that we aren’t being hard enough on the dictators! To be fair, the Germans (and Poland and The Check republic are also on board) are hiding behind carefully crafted speeches about how politics should play a part in the Olympics, so they’re staying home. But at least they’re saying something!
Times have changed, folks, time for the big boys to stand-up and stay home. Your athletes will get over it, the Olympics will survive, and may even be stronger since a little bit of backbone on your behalf will give them a heck of a lot more meaning.
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