Cancel the Beijing Olympics ASAP

[GuessTheAltAccount]

Millions dead.

Many who survived physically damaged and psychologically traumatized.

All because of a disease that started either from China's labs or China's failure to regulate their own wetmarkets, and China's failure to prevent this new disease from spreading to the rest of the world.

Holding the Olympics in China would be an insult to the memory of those who died. And it would embolden the CPC to wonder what else they could get away with.

You can blame other countries' failure to prepare for this pandemic until you're blue in the face, but the fact remains that none of this would've happened if China did the bare minimum to contain this, and there being actual consequences for this matters more than a few Olympians having to wait a few more years for their gold medal. People call it a once in a lifetime opportunity, but that's not necessarily the case. There are those who've gone to the Olympics multiple times.

But cancelling the Beijing Olympics actually WOULD be a once in a lifetime opportunity. And opportunity to send a message to the CPC there's a limit on what they can get away with, and to the IOCC to never pick China again.

[Ifreann]

Millions dead.

Many who survived physically damaged and psychologically traumatized.

All because of a disease that started either from China's labs or China's failure to regulate their own wetmarkets, and China's failure to prevent this new disease from spreading to the rest of the world.

lol

[San Lumen]

No we should not cancel them.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Windmills The Olympics do not work that way.

[The Holy Therns]

I was wondering when you'd get around to this.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

So you've finally found something you're willing to cancel.

[The Holy Therns]

No we should not cancel them.

This one was pretty expected too.

[GuessTheAltAccount]

So you've finally found something you're willing to cancel.

Wanting accountability for a proven role in millions of deaths =/= wanting mindless mob rule through the court of public opinion against people who have not been proven guilty.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

So you've finally found something you're willing to cancel.

Wanting accountability for a proven role in millions of deaths =/= wanting mindless mob rule through the court of public opinion against people who have not been proven guilty.

Proven role? Proven in which court? The court of public opinion?

[Deblar]

Nah, the Olympic Committee ain’t gonna cancel the Beijing Olympics. Bein’ political’s bad for business.

[The Two Jerseys]

Frankly, East Asia should never have gotten two consecutive Winter Games and three straight overall games in the first place.

[Heloin]

But cancelling the Beijing Olympics actually WOULD be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Why is every “once in a lifetime opportunity” so boring?

[Dumb Ideologies]

Anyone got the telephone number of Mr Olympics? Let's get our guys and his guys in a room and do a deal.

[Kowani]

Anyone got the telephone number of Mr Olympics? Let's get our guys and his guys in a room and do a deal.

first thing we gotta do is dig through his old tweets

[GuessTheAltAccount]

Wanting accountability for a proven role in millions of deaths =/= wanting mindless mob rule through the court of public opinion against people who have not been proven guilty.

Proven role? Proven in which court? The court of public opinion?

Seriously?

We have the footage from the beginning of this pandemic of Wuhan having to deal with it. We have China's own propaganda videos admitting they had a new virus by early 2020, even while ignoring the part about how they were trying to silence Li Wenliang for saying the same thing at the time.

That is a few steps above the witch-hunt-esque "hurr hurr everyone says it that settles it" logic mainstream cancel culture seems content with.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

Proven role? Proven in which court? The court of public opinion?

Seriously?

We have the footage from the beginning of this pandemic of Wuhan having to deal with it. We have China's own propaganda videos admitting they had a new virus by early 2020, even while ignoring the part about how they were trying to silence Li Wenliang for saying the same thing at the time.

That is a few steps above the witch-hunt-esque "hurr hurr everyone says it that settles it" logic mainstream cancel culture seems content with.

That is still "court of public opinion" territory.

[Heloin]

Anyone got the telephone number of Mr Olympics? Let's get our guys and his guys in a room and do a deal.

first thing we gotta do is dig through his old tweets

Apparently this Mr Olympics worked with the Nazis!

[GuessTheAltAccount]

Frankly, East Asia should never have gotten two consecutive Winter Games and three straight overall games in the first place.

East Asia is not just East Asia. Japan is one of the most advanced countries on the face of the Earth. Taiwan handled this disease better than the western world, partly because they're intimately familiar with the nature of the threat on their doorstep. Either of those countries is a better role model for the rest of the world than the creepy secretive dystopia that is mainland China.

[Northern Connecticut]

The CCP has been doing a lot wrong. The beijing olympics need to be cancelled to punish the ccp. But thats just my opinion.

[Torrocca]

Ah, there's the daily dose of Red Scare and Yellow Peril! Was wondering when we'd see that again.

[GuessTheAltAccount]

Seriously?

We have the footage from the beginning of this pandemic of Wuhan having to deal with it. We have China's own propaganda videos admitting they had a new virus by early 2020, even while ignoring the part about how they were trying to silence Li Wenliang for saying the same thing at the time.

That is a few steps above the witch-hunt-esque "hurr hurr everyone says it that settles it" logic mainstream cancel culture seems content with.

That is still "court of public opinion" territory.

Is causing an international pandemic through negligence even prosecutable? If not then there's no equivalence to be made with cancel culture's tendency to jump the gun at people accused of crimes but not convicted.

But even if it is, there's also the bias to be considered at the vested interests powerful businesspeople have in siding with a country from which they use cheap labour. That would somewhat rig the game against prosecution anyway. There is no individual comparable in clout to the CPC's clout over a population of so many cheap labourers, and in turn, the rest of the world.

[GuessTheAltAccount]

The CCP has been doing a lot wrong. The beijing olympics need to be cancelled to punish the ccp. But thats just my opinion.

They call it the CPC now. Sounds pedantic, but we need to keep up, or they can paint their critics as lazy and/or stupid too.

[Northern Connecticut]

Just ask falun gong

[Northern Connecticut]

they call it a different name now? really?

[Kowani]

first thing we gotta do is dig through his old tweets

Apparently this Mr Olympics worked with the Nazis!

very easily cancelable territory

Ah, there's the daily dose of Red Scare and Yellow Peril! Was wondering when we'd see that again.

ooga-booga, we must always have a racialized enemy to gesture at