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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yeah, that's what I hate about that argument that's been brought up many times in this thread.
'Well, we didn't boycott this, and if you boycott the Olympics you'll have to also boycott this and that".
No, no we don't. It would be perfectly acceptable to boycott this ****y country for their BS treatment of the LGBT community, while not also boycotting everything unjust in the entire world. And quite frankly anyone who isn't outraged by their treatment of gays, despite the fact that yes, there are worse things in the world, is pretty ridiculous, imo.
But at the end of the day, I would support a boycott if the athletes want it.
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Well it's the truth. Or you are saying Gay rights are more important than the rights of Chinese citizens? It's been proven by past Olympic boycotts that they don't work. The 1980 Moscow boycott was a waste as Soviets didn't withdraw from Afghanistan. There are also theories that if countries did boycott that the Russian gay community would be used as a scapegoat and that life would be even worse for them and I certainly wouldn't want to be part of anything that directs misguided hate towards them.
You yourself said you are in favour of a athlete led boycott and since there's zero chance that's going to happen all this talk is moot as the IOC and the athletes have been clear that it's business as usual. This whole thing right now is nothing more than media driven controversy to sell newspapers and drive up internet traffic. The Olympics will carry on as they should.