Should we boycott the Beijing Olympics?

[Doug C]

Well, the next few weeks and months should be interesting. Protest groups in Tibet, and maybe Taiwan, and gonna milk this for all they can. They want the world to see what a bunch of facsist hardliners the Chinese gov't are, while we ingest the grand Beijingoism show that the olympics will be.

That no one recognized your coining of "Beijingoism", though not a human rights abuse, is message board decency abuse. Well done. That type of wit deserves it's propers.

And I agree with most everyone one else. A boycott only hurts the athletes and would be the epitome of hypocrisy.

 

Also the above 'panda bear' quote is perfect.

[W(TF)]

That no one recognized your coining of "Beijingoism", though not a human rights abuse, is message board decency abuse. Well done. That type of wit deserves it's propers.

 

Wish I could take credit, but I copped that from an article I read somewhere recently. The Atlantic, I think..or maybe it was the Economist.

[Dreamin']

Boycotts and bans: People power or pointless?

[bjorn_skurj]

Didn't do Jimmy Carter any good.

[Analogman]

What we should do is let the people of Tibet have that place in Texas and send those child raping polygamist (so called christians) over to Tibet.

[Good Old Neon]

What we should do is let the people of Tibet have that place in Texas and send those child raping polygamist (so called christians) over to Tibet.

 

I'd sign that petition.

[W(TF)]

Didn't do Jimmy Carter any good.

 

I was listening to a radio thing yesterday that said the opposite...that the 1980 boycott hit the USSR really hard, stole "their moment", and took away much of their credibility as a superpower. Paved the way for Reagan to obliterate them and blah blah. They were saying that China is in a very similar position as the Soviets were then, looking for that international seal of approval and wanting us to turn a blind eye to the shitty things they're doing.

[Guest Jules]

So, where are the people that voted for a boycott? Rationale?

[bjorn_skurj]

I was listening to a radio thing yesterday that said the opposite...that the 1980 boycott hit the USSR really hard, stole "their moment", and took away much of their credibility as a superpower. Paved the way for Reagan to obliterate them and blah blah. They were saying that China is in a very similar position as the Soviets were then, looking for that international seal of approval and wanting us to turn a blind eye to the shitty things they're doing.

I suspect that person on the radio was high.