Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday Russian and Belarusian athletes "were not welcome" at the Olympics being staged in the French capital this year.
    • naturalgasbad@lemmy.caOP
      6015·
      2 years ago

      It’s only condemnable if it’s white people that are dying. Muslims, of course, don’t count.

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
        183·
        2 years ago

        You are aware they started that narrative for two reasons: 1) To distract from the fact they were radicalizing nazis in the area and 2) to drum up justification for a war with china. The only reason it’s still around despite the MOUNTAINS of evidence proving it wrong is because Americans are so fucking racist that they don’t even care that it’s blatantly bullshit because it gives them moral carte blanche to hate china.

              • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                81·
                2 years ago

                I know you’re in no position to call it a firehose of falsehood, because I knew you were never actually going to read any of it.

                But if you want to understand how the Five Eyes governments and corporate media propaganda work, I’ve got a firehose of facts for that as well. The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
                A five minute introductory video: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

                Bonus rounds:

                • tiredturtle@lemmy.ml
                  26·
                  2 years ago

                  You misunderstood. I’m taking your word as is.

                  Government propaganda is good to realize!

                  Let’s say we have a basket of apples. The world’s most powerful apples. And they all look rotten and diseased, we know the reasons which make them rotten, it’s peer reviewed and considered a fact.

                  So then we make a leap of faith. What if despite evvvvvvveeeerrrything, this one apple is actually pure and holy. And only a few know this for sure and they’re not letting anyone else know the proof.

                  That’s very wonderful but, kinda sketchy at the same time?

          • tiredturtle@lemmy.ml
            34·
            2 years ago

            Modded as misinfo, worth to check the modlog… There were no links to any fake news sites nor information commented, just a realization that apparently all reports of even different cases can’t possibly have any truth to them.

            Trump’s lawsuits could be an allegory. There’s so many of them and similarly all of them have to be fake I guess. No fire where there’s smoke

              • tiredturtle@lemmy.ml
                14·
                2 years ago

                I’m sorry you see me as an enemy and act reactively. I see we the people as one and am not related to the image you need to attack.

                Edit: and after all the compassion that horrible projection of a reply is what we see

                • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  I see we the people as one

                  Then you’d be wrong from the jump; because ‘we the people’ have always been split down the middle between who owns the plantation and who gets forced to toil; and in 400 years that has not changed.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlBanned
    249·
    2 years ago

    France with history of enslaving and colonising black people should never be allowed at any global competitions.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 years ago

    OK, wait a minute. The modern Olympics are a super problematic thing in themselves, but the idealistic naïveté that underpins them has a certain internal logic. And this statement breaks that internal logic. If Russia breaks the Olympic Truce, then sanction them however appropriate (e.g., by excluding them from the next games, like it has been done before), but this kind of pre-emptive exclusion is inconsistent with what the Olympics are about and reeks of hypocrisy and double standards, when it is only directed at Russians and Belarussians and not any of the “what about X” countries that anyone can think of.

    That said, fuck the IOC and the corporate monster that the Olympics have become.

  • /bin/bash/@lemmy.world
    910·
    2 years ago

    They should not be welcome in any place in this world. 🚫 stop orcs sign should be implemented in every country border.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    38·
    2 years ago

    Finally. It is ridiculous that they weren’t straight away excluded. How can you complete when you’re attacking another participant, seems idiotic