US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

[WJ99mobile]

Following on from the WTA suspension of all chinese events

Yet we're celebrating Qatar like some sort of milestone.

About time people started standing up for what is right. Well done USA

[lardy]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

What do you mean, we're celebrating Qatar? Everyone hates it going there, don't we?

[WJ99mobile]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

What do you mean, we're celebrating Qatar? Everyone hates it going there, don't we?

We in the figurative. Meant fifa and the football world.

Qatar should have been scrapped long ago but unfortunately money talks

[blue matt]

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its only a diplomatic boycott though isn't it ? so just no White House official representation

the USA Athletes will still compete

[WJ99mobile]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

its only a diplomatic boycott though isn't it ? so just no White House official representation

the USA Athletes will still compete

As far as I’m aware athletes can choose to compete but not under the USA banner

It’s a start

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

Following on from the WTA suspension of all chinese events

Yet we're celebrating Qatar like some sort of milestone.

About time people started standing up for what is right. Well done USA

Celebrating the USA on human rights. WTF?

[Jimmy the Jock]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

The officials aren't going . That's all ...

[dembethewarrior]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

Man on messageboard saves world by moaning on messageboard.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

We in the figurative. Meant fifa and the football world.

Qatar should have been scrapped long ago but unfortunately money talks

Qatar's state-owned utility company is one of FIFA's major sponsors.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Celebrating the USA on human rights. WTF?

Come on Eric, it's not like they're barking mad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-massie-trump

[JamesWales]

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I generally don't agree with sport and politics mixing. The Olympics is an arena where public officials can mix and start to normalise relationships.

That said, it is a persistent source of annoyance hwo many people, esp on the left, would always get so apoplectic with rage over, for example, a Trump tweet and never say anything about China. "Nasty tweet - Furious! Concentration camps for Uighurs - no comment."

So in that sense I am glad that the US is highlighting the increasingly authoritarian, dangerous and power hungry Chinese regime. It's not Mao yet they are positioning themselves into a position of global dominance

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

I generally don't agree with sport and politics mixing. The Olympics is an arena where public officials can mix and start to normalise relationships.

That said, it is a persistent source of annoyance hwo many people, esp on the left, would always get so apoplectic with rage over, for example, a Trump tweet and never say anything about China. "Nasty tweet - Furious! Concentration camps for Uighurs - no comment."

So in that sense I am glad that the US is highlighting the increasingly authoritarian, dangerous and power hungry Chinese regime. It's not Mao yet they are positioning themselves into a position of global dominance

I think that ship has sailed. Meanwhile, the US Republican Party lurches to far right extremism and is the bigger threat. I"m not defending any authoritarian regime either, but, whilst we've been squabbling in Europe and the US has lost the plot, China will be way ahead technologically and can dominate using a mouse and keyboard.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

I generally don't agree with sport and politics mixing. The Olympics is an arena where public officials can mix and start to normalise relationships.

That said, it is a persistent source of annoyance hwo many people, esp on the left, would always get so apoplectic with rage over, for example, a Trump tweet and never say anything about China. "Nasty tweet - Furious! Concentration camps for Uighurs - no comment."

So in that sense I am glad that the US is highlighting the increasingly authoritarian, dangerous and power hungry Chinese regime. It's not Mao yet they are positioning themselves into a position of global dominance

Perhaps there is a factor involved whereby people expect better behaviour and human rights from countries that are supposedly democracies rather than autocratic and theocratic countries where human rights have always been in short supply.

[lardy]

Re: US boycotts Beijing winter games 2022

I generally don't agree with sport and politics mixing. The Olympics is an arena where public officials can mix and start to normalise relationships.

That said, it is a persistent source of annoyance hwo many people, esp on the left, would always get so apoplectic with rage over, for example, a Trump tweet and never say anything about China. "Nasty tweet - Furious! Concentration camps for Uighurs - no comment."

So in that sense I am glad that the US is highlighting the increasingly authoritarian, dangerous and power hungry Chinese regime. It's not Mao yet they are positioning themselves into a position of global dominance

I've seen plenty of people defending Trump on here, and I've never seen a single post defending Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs.

Even this boycott is nothing to do with the Uyghurs whatsoever, not even close, so it's an odd argument you're making.

[JamesWales]

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I've seen plenty of people defending Trump on here, and I've never seen a single post defending Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs.

Even this boycott is nothing to do with the Uyghurs whatsoever, not even close, so it's an odd argument you're making.

You're kind of proving my point by comparing the democratically elected former president to the Chinese communist party. The two arent remotely comparable, and thats kinda the point.

Many people get overly exercised on smaller issues, and ignore far greater crimes.

You can oppose both of course, but I see few examples of that.