Chinese Olympics=Commie Olympics =Genocide Olympics?

Question

It is time, now, to begin shaming China---demanding that if the Beijing government is going to host the premier international event, the Summer Olympic Games of 2008, they must be responsible international partners. China's slogan for these Olympic Games---"One world, one dream"---is a ghastly irony, given Beijing's complicity in the Darfur genocide . We must show the world that China has a large role in this genocide, and shame China, on an international stage, into taking action.

Answer 1

Sure, why not? Let's also boycott anything that comes from the USA...

Why not? According to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record."

The story of the encounter between European settlers and America’s native population does not make for pleasant reading. Read Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor (1888), a complete recitation of forced removals, killings, and callous disregard for North American Indians by the American government and settlers.

What about American political and military intervention and covert actions (on the pretext of democracy and world peace) in Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, El Salvador, the Philippines, Chile, Panama, Cambodia...(long list, I'm running out of space...) that resulted in millions of death...hmmm....

Answer 2

I think you are seeking voices not answers and here comes my voice. There are numerous articles and news about boycott 2008 Olympics, Darfur, Genocide, "humanitarian intervention" in Economists, Newsweek, Times as well as other western-dominated media. Chinese government has already done something though you don't know-since your media holds a strong bias against a different ideology. Most western medias report China affairs under a specific "framework", which in my eyes is far from balance and neutral. If you have time, if you like, come to China and see for yourself. Seeing is believing.

Answer 3

Personally I would go for demanding Beijing put out bigger street signs(my friend with 20/15 vision had difficulty reading them across most intersections), clearly number all buildings (I think I saw one number in a line of 20 shops in most places), have buses from the outskirts of the city always drop you off where the line ends (bus 916 picked me up outside Dongzhimen subway station so why did it drop me off 2 blocks away on an unsigned street, particularly since we had to wait for folks to get off the bus before we could get on it earlier in the day), have subway lines follow a uniform system of directionals (Beijingzhan's directionals are different from Jianguomen's once you switch to the other line) and include pin yin on it's platform maps, and make sure streets on the map have the same name as it's actual sign(Shi.... lu is not the same as Xi....lu, they are two different characters and sounds, but apparently interchangable on the map), just to start. I live in China and I'm familiar with the way things work here, but Beijing makes me crazy. Oh, and don't even get me started on the way women queue up in front of the stalls in the bathroom. Why do they have to stand 3-5 deep in front of each door? It would be quicker to stand at the entrance to the bathroom and wait for the next available stall. Some of these girls take a freakishly long time in the bathroom for folks who have been squatting all their lives. Also, I enjoyed being shoved by police/security into the Jianguomen subway going to Yong'AnLi where it was so packed on a Monday morning I couldn't even move my arms. My friend and I had to damn near trample some poor girl to get off the damn car. They are supposedly making efforts at getting the locals to queue up on certain days to get ready for the Olympics, but I didn't see any evidence of it working while I was there. I know my countrymen and somebody's gonna get punched out with the way these folk queue jump. I know in the city I live in that means the Chinese punchee would call up 10 or so of his friends to come kick your butt, fair fight be damned. Don't get me wrong, I actually like China and I would like to see them successfully host these games, but I just don't see that happening at this point in time.

Answer 4

Have you ever even been to China? Do you know their lifestyle, the people?
I have and I do. The Chinese people are in change. The country is changing daily, for the good. There is more money, you can own a business, a car. a better home.
Until you know of what you speak, instead of spitting venom upon an entire nation, I would advise you to take action in YOUR life. When you reach perfection, let us know.

Answer 5

The so-called the People's Liberation Army murdered Chinese civilians and pro-democracy students, for whom the soldiers ought to protect in Tien An Mien Square in Beijing, China's own capital. The Communist Party killed its own people and, accordingly, it supports the Darfur genocide.

Answer 6

We definitely should boycott a country that invades a sovereign nation, that imprisons vast numbers of its citizens, that carries out the death penalty, that seeks to spy on its own citizens, that ---- oh, wait a minute, that's the United States. Okay, China's not so bad -- getting ready to make my third trip there -- get a life.

Answer 7

2 points

Answer 8

So much for the Olympics being about sports. You are a sorry, sorry man.

Answer 9

I have only one word for you, you are pathetic. OK, two words, ignorant.

Answer 10

HAHAHA!!! This guy is funny!! HAA