I recognize that athletes are in a tough spot, thru no fault of their own. When some now-16-year-old gymnast first started their long road to being an olympic level athlete, who could have guessed China would be sponsoring the games this year. But they are, and they are doing what they do worst, in Tibet, in Darfur, in their own homeland. As I see it, your duty to humanity is far greater than your selfish desire for fame. If you decide to participate in the China olympics, you choose to give up your humanity, you have deliberately made a choice to stand on the side of repression and murder and genocide.
Now if you’re an american athlete, you don’t have a whole lot of moral standing to make the case, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. If you’re from a country that has avoided the war on terror morass, you should know better.
Shame on you for competing.
Shame on you for watching.
Shame on you for donating.
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