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Originally Posted by kehatch
Can we have an Olympics that isn't monopolized by human rights issues?
It boggles my mind that North American's think we are so perfect that we should be using every platform to tell some other country they are doing it wrong. The commercialization and resource monopolization by the "civilized" world has significantly more impact globally then the Russian stance on homosexual rights.
Let the athletes have their moment. It is frigging pathetic that there is a 26 page post on this and nothing on the various Canadian athletes that will be participating at the Olympic's. Talk about a messed up perspective.
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Yeah, how messed up that we value human rights and equality over sports. Do you have any idea how pathetic you sound?