Originally posted by mikelomI don't think you can claim to be an expert on chinese supression from having lived there for two years. Life of an expat is not representative for one, but also how can you think you know what goes on across the whole county? I've lived in the UK all my life but I couldn't claim to have any first-hand experience of "suppression" by the state (which is different from saying that none goes on). In fact I have little clue how, for example, the police operate in practice in terms of conducting their investigations and arresting and detaining people.
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China is less of a police estate than all the countries in Europe! There is less suppression in China. That's all I need say.
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I suppose it depends how you define "suppression", but if you mean the kind of suppression that infringes norms of international human rights law, then I reckon your statement is completely ludicrous.
Originally posted by murrowAm I the only one who thinks that the answer to this question is 'yes'? I mean, obviously not during WWII, but Nazi Germany existed for a number of years before that point, and I think it is totally plausible that the Olympics would have been held there. I mean, I think the sign in the picture only makes sense in retrospect, becaues while Nazi Germany was in power (and again, I'm talking about before the war) I don't think the global community saw them as the evil that people today now realize they were.
Poster from one of the olympic games protests.
www.pjdy.com/images/wouldwehave.jpg
Originally posted by mrjonesvich321Erm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
Am I the only one who thinks that the answer to this question is 'yes'? I mean, obviously not during WWII, but Nazi Germany existed for a number of years before that point, and I think it is totally plausible that the Olympics would have been held there. I mean, I think the sign in the picture only makes sense in retrospect, becaues while Nazi Germa ...[text shortened]... n't think the global community saw them as the evil that people today now realize they were.
I thought that's why murrow found it funny in the first place.
Originally posted by NordlysI quite liked this quote from the wiki page...
Erm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
I thought that's why murrow found it funny in the first place.
"Jesse Owen's participation in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics was controversial because he was African American in a world where segregation and racial discrimination were the norm in the USA at the time. However, during the Olympics Owens was able to freely use public transportation and enter bars and other public facilities without the difficulty he would face as a Black man in America."
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Originally posted by mrjonesvich321Yeah, I was going to say that you need to get your head out of your ass and into a history book but some other people pointed that out.
Am I the only one who thinks that the answer to this question is 'yes'? I mean, obviously not during WWII, but Nazi Germany existed for a number of years before that point, and I think it is totally plausible that the Olympics would have been held there. I mean, I think the sign in the picture only makes sense in retrospect, becaues while Nazi Germa ...[text shortened]... n't think the global community saw them as the evil that people today now realize they were.
Who knows? Maybe Hitler was Times magizine "Man of the Year.
Before anyone brings up one more crappy wikipedia link, I was being faceious with the second statement (I do believe it was 1933) and, look, no wikipedia reference.😛
Originally posted by mrjonesvich321😵 Genius
Am I the only one who thinks that the answer to this question is 'yes'? I mean, obviously not during WWII, but Nazi Germany existed for a number of years before that point, and I think it is totally plausible that the Olympics would have been held there. I mean, I think the sign in the picture only makes sense in retrospect, becaues while Nazi Germa ...[text shortened]... n't think the global community saw them as the evil that people today now realize they were.
Originally posted by IchibanovLast night, outside a theater, I saw a sign for "The Arlo Guthrie Solo Reunion Tour".
It's hard to tell if these sign makers are supporters with no clue or counter-protesters with excellent ones. I prefer to believe in human intelligence and think that these are both instances of clever counter-protests.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt on that one.
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I also saw a sign at the concession stand that read: "Cookies" $1.95
I wonder what they really were.