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CorsiHockeyLeague · 03-05-2021, 06:34 PM

I would agree that it has to be more than just Canada boycotting to have any real effectiveness.

And it should be more than just Canada.

Honest question: if, tomorrow, Canada announced it would boycott the games, what countries (if any) would follow suit? And would there be dominoes? Because if we could get Germany and / or a couple of the Scandinavian countries on board, well, it's the Winter Olympics. That would completely de-legitimize most of the outcomes and massively undercut the whole thing.

I can understand the "symbolic gesture" take, and the argument that it's not going to change anything, and that there are better ways to do it. But my view is, look, China is an awful, horror show of a country that's going to be throwing a gigantic, ostentatious party premised entirely on self-gratification and self-aggrandizement. There will be much reveling, laughing and indulgence that will be indifferent to, and at the direct expense of, a lot of people who are suffering within earshot. If I were invited to a party like that, I not only wouldn't go, I'd think less of anyone who did. I don't want my country to have any part in it.

03-05-2021, 06:34 PM	#49
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	I would agree that it has to be more than just Canada boycotting to have any real effectiveness. And it should be more than just Canada. Honest question: if, tomorrow, Canada announced it would boycott the games, what countries (if any) would follow suit? And would there be dominoes? Because if we could get Germany and / or a couple of the Scandinavian countries on board, well, it's the Winter Olympics. That would completely de-legitimize most of the outcomes and massively undercut the whole thing. I can understand the "symbolic gesture" take, and the argument that it's not going to change anything, and that there are better ways to do it. But my view is, look, China is an awful, horror show of a country that's going to be throwing a gigantic, ostentatious party premised entirely on self-gratification and self-aggrandizement. There will be much reveling, laughing and indulgence that will be indifferent to, and at the direct expense of, a lot of people who are suffering within earshot. If I were invited to a party like that, I not only wouldn't go, I'd think less of anyone who did. I don't want my country to have any part in it. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno