Ciarán FaheyBerlin pushing for the Olympics like it’s 1936. “Exactly our thing.”
What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Olympics?
(AP) #Berlin #OlympicGames #1936Olympics
https://apnews.com/article/berlin-olympic-bid-218a5573f8d36df3e08565d800cb85d3
Berlin wants to host the Olympics again as 100th anniversary of 1936 Games looms
Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympic Games again, possibly 100 years after the city hosted the 1936 edition under the Nazis. Berlin mayor Kai Wegner is to present plans to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with help from four other German states, on Tuesday at Berlin’s Olympic stadium. The next available edition will be in 1936 after Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Olympics and Brisbane was awarded the 2032 edition. The German Olympic Sports Confederation says a German bid for the 2040 Games is also possible.
DoomsdaysCWDiscrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?
"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#TransgenderAthletes #SexTesting
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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@ginaintheburg if I were #CocaCola or #McDonalds I would've banned #Trump from buying products, entering premises or post any content depicting him consuming or otherwise imply the endorsement is mutual or consenting.
- But then again, #BrownDrink likes #BrownShirts:
Sebastian Schröder#Olympia #1936olympics #albertnorden #opel #GeneralMotors #ruesselsheim #Antifaschismus #niewieder #faschismus #histodons @histodons
https://wuppertal.vvn-bda.de/2021/01/08/albert-norden-olympischer-friede-vor-und-hinter-der-theaterkulisse/
https://wuppertal.vvn-bda.de/2021/01/08/albert-norden-olympischer-friede-vor-und-hinter-der-theaterkulisse/
Albert Norden: „Olympischer Friede“ vor und hinter der Theaterkulisse – VVN-BDA Wuppertal
Albert Norden: „Olympischer Friede“ vor und hinter der Theaterkulisse – 6. August 1936 Es erweist sich in diesen Wochen wieder die Geschicklichkeit des deutschen Faschismus, im jeweiligen Augenblick alle Kräfte auf einen Punkt zu konzentrieren. Seit Ende Juli erhält der Durchschnittsdeutsche keine andere geistige Nahrung als die Berichte über die Olympiade. Die Presse läßt alle politischen Ereignisse vor der Olympiade zurücktreten. Das ganze Radioprogramm dreht sich ...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴/s:Oh, yes, let's do a re-run of the #1936Olympics,too:/s
"#Hitler saw the 1936 Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and antisemitism, and the official #Nazi Party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter, wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games."
/s:While at it, let's go all the way and have the nxt #OlympicGames in #Moscow. Much more #Russians to talk 2/s
