CM HarringtonSo I’m trying to understand why it’s OK for the US hockey team to bring out a jersey with their killed teammate, but it’s not OK for the Ukrainian guy to have a helmet with his murdered teammates?
Fuck the IOC.
Carolyn@octothorpe Politics/war vs drunk driver.
@CStamp both senseless deaths. Both ‘messages’ (the term they flogged to deny the Ukrainian’s participation).
Jargoggles@CStamp @octothorpe
If the implicit message is "drunk driving is bad," then it's a political statement.
And so what if it is? Drunk driving *is* bad and we should organize our society in such a way that we prevent it from happening as much as possible.
@jargoggles @octothorpe The Olympics has a long history of keeping international politics, including war, out of it.
If every country that had a grievance with another aired it, it would take the focus off the athletes and onto world politics.
I mean, the human rights violations currently committed by the US government not only against its own people, but people around the world…
@jargoggles @octothorpe It is a balancing act. I think that by disqualifying the Ukrainian, they drew more attention to it, so…
But if they hadn’t, it would’ve been a precedent.