That is why I voted yea on competition, the precedent exists with Berlin.
Is this a racist comment?
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That is why I voted yea on competition, the precedent exists with Berlin.
Is Israeli a race, I don't know but this statement is obviously WAY more inflammatory than what the girl did. he called the request for a moment of silence for murdered athletes racist. Whether his statement itself is technically racist or not, it is targeted at a specific group of people, who are competing in the olympics. And it wasn't made by an athlete but a member of the Olympic Committee lol. Surely u see the hypocrisy here?
These are games and should be treated as such. Athletes aren't ambassadors for their respective countries. Just admit she shouldn't have been kicked out.
EDIT: Jewish is technically a race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
I think a better way to handle that situation was have Greece call her home. The Greeks should manage their own people. If an outcry was made, and Greece did not recall her.......I just don't think the Olympic committee needed to get involved with that. Much better would be a public shunning from the village by the athletes themselves.
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and should she really be kicked off olympic team? I don't think so, and i don't think its a racist comment. She said, 'africans' she didn't say blacks. So she refered to a continent, not a color of skin. People are retarted in my opinion (was that racist)
Its like saying, there are so many asians that moved here, watch out for a stink bug invasion! is that racist?
maybe i just don't get what racism is.
The Greek triple jumper expelled from the Olympics for sending a racist tweet about African immigrants and the West Nile virus is speaking out against the decision to ban her from competition in London.
Voula Papachristou was left in Athens by the Hellenic Olympic Committee after sending a tweet that read, "with so many Africans in Greece at least the West Nile mosquitos will eat homemade food." Her comment generated a minor uproar in Greece, then became an international story when Greek officials decided to kick her off the Olympic team.
Greeks are becoming increasingly anti-immigrant and many of the immigrants coming to Greece are from Africa.
Her statement doesn't strike me personally as racist but it is clearly anti-immigrant and reflects the views of some of the far right elements of Greek politics. I think her country has a right to decide if someone representing them should be saying something like that and it is certainly a stupid thing for someone with such visibility to tweet.
So then should Palestine or even Israel be banned from the games? I mean Israel wants a moment of silence for the members of their team that were murdered at the Munich games. Palestine is offended by this because the murderers are hometown heroes to their people and called this request racist. I know it's complicated, racism needs to be punished, even if it is just perceived. Once someone gets offended all bets are off, anyone making a statement that even hints at racism should be banned from the games. /sarcasm
lol please.. u guys need to grow up and understand that not everyone feels the same way you do. There is a difference between assaulting/murdering someone for the color of their skin and making a racist joke. Free people have a right to say what they want, freedom of belief freedom of speech etc.. at least in America.
I'd like to add while America is a 'melting pot' by design, Greece is not. It is their land and hypothetically if they all were 'racist' and didn't want immigrants living there, then that is their business as a sovereign nation. It would be great humor if they backed her statement and they got banned from the games.. the people who invented the Olympics getting banned
Ohms, I agree that the country should be able to make the decision to ban her. I just don't think she should be banned, the reason was certainly to appease crybabies everywhere.
What about the palestinian olympic committee chair, should he have thought about what he was doing before he said that? Should Palestine be banned from the games as a result? Should he lose his job?
Or how about Israel, what if they mentioned the nationality of the murderers of their team.. that would be totally racist because it would offend the people who see them as heroes right?
After actually reading the story, the decision was appropriate. The Greeks themselves did ban her. That is their prerogative. Apparently, Greece does not want to be seen in a certain light.
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