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Did the Chinese fake the girls' ages for the Olympics?

What do you think of the Olympics being hosted by a country with one of the worst human rights abuse records?

  • What do you think of the Olympics being hosted by the country with the current worst human rights record of any industrialized nation? Does the Olympics somehow transcend consideration for human rights violations? I realize the 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin with Hitler, but didn't we learn to be intolerant of human rights abuses? Why do Americans hold ourselves to such higher standards, and continually make exceptions for countries continually engaging in grievous abuses of humans. I love the Olympics, but I'm not even watching for this reason. Aside from China's shameful oppression of its citizens, its occupation of Tibet, its archaic viewpoints on the environment and greenhouse gas emissions, they have a complete disregard for the safety and security of visitors there, and on top of everything, they cheat like crazy!!! For one, many of their gymnast girls were issued fake passports by the Chinese government because they were too young to compete. And second, could you believe the incredibly biased scoring in last nights women's gymastics final?? In the last week, 17 visitors (8 from the USA) have been ARRESTED, DETAINED and DEPORTED for holding banners saying "Free Tibet" and "Human Rights Now". And this is just another unrelated issue, but why did they order all restaurants in the Olympic village to pull DOG meat off the menus in the last month? Don't you think on the face of it, considering every point of view on the issue, eating DOGS is kinda savage? Go ahead and make excuses about how we Americans eat cows and how they are considered sacred in some countries, but were talking about DOGS here!! Would you make excuses if they came into your house and skinned your dog alive and ate him in front of you? Oh, and if you go spouting off about this being racist, back your allegations up with some arguments on anything I've said that isn't dead on true. If you don't, you're just being a racist against me, a white man. So back to my question, why do Americans bend over backwards and make excuses for all this behavior??? OK, lets here you defend them and say I'm racist. Lol.

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    I think it sucks and I'm not buying any of what the Chinese or the media are selling.

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The WORST? Hardly... There are far worse regimes in the world, many of which are staunch US allies, such as Saudi Arabia or Algeria. China isn't a democracy, that's for sure, but they are slowly moving into a more open society and I think they deserve the Olympics. If you are allowed to compete, you should be allowed to host.

Athєist's Nightmarє

Seriously GET OVER IT!

World's Greatest

The only reason Westerners keep harping on human rights in China is because it’s the only thing they can still latch onto to make themselves feel superior and smug about their triumph over China. Westerners see the writing on the wall. Compared to Asia, they’re losing the race in terms of: - economic growth - educational quality - technological innovation - environmental investment (China invests way more than the U.S. does toward sustainable energy research) - and hipness (Asia has stopped looking to the U.S. for the next cool trend. Now Asians are increasingly seeing South Korea as the top trendsetter, whether in terms of TV, film, fashion or music.) China is just a convenient proxy for rising Asian dominance. If Americans really cared about human rights abroad, they would have started making noise about China 30 years ago. And they’d be making noise about just about most countries in South America, Africa and the Middle East. But none of those countries are an economic or military rival to the U.S., are they?

Wilson!!!!!

I've seen this question. Let it go, dude.

~* Petite Choupette*~

I have to ask u , do you know anything about China, have you ever talked to a chinese people , get over it ,dude !!!!

Allen FK

you've asked this dumbass question like 20 times and it's been deleted 20 times already.

Heavy Gear

There's nothing the USA can do about it. Seriously, would you want to make the Chinese mad? Having the Olympics there can at least open China to the world and lets its people see the cold hard fact that they don't have freedoms and are being controlled and hopefully inspire its people to rise up someday and overthrow the communist government there.

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you're not racist, you're just stupid not all people in beijing eat dogs. A lot of them keep them as pets. Just like how not all Europeans eat cat brains and horses, or not all Americans eat pig anus chitlins and fried cow brains. or how not all australians like yourself are dumbasses who eat kangaroos and kowalas and steal land from Australian Aborigenes

Mickey D

i hate it. the Olympics should not have been in Beijing. it's simply that cut and dry.

Tyler

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