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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by alexakarpov on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:39AM (#6173125)
"Make sports even more political" -- this is our disagreement, yes. You think sports and politics are somehow 'independent things' -- but they aren't. Best parallel would be: money and wealth and private property and capital and production are all connected. Communists said they really aren't, and should be made 'less connected' - somehow, they want to have production without everything else. Well, we all know it doesn't work this way. Same here -- you can't artificially disconnect 'politics' from 'sport'. It will remain connected... because it is connected!
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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by ronaldx on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:46AM (#6173173)
You have not addressed my main point, so I will simplify it:

The Olympics cannot judge a host country for its political values, or it would have a strong cultural bias and not be a global event.

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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by alexakarpov on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:55AM (#6173230)
sorry, didn't realize this was the main point

I've never read the Olympics code, list of principles etc, but I can imagine there's something about human dignity and freedom and liberty? Well, liberty should be a lowest common denominator. I.e. -- your culture allows some people to enslave and oppress other people, and deny them life, property and dignity? Well your culture is a piece of shit and you don't host Olympics. Easy! Cultural bias? Sure - cultural bias of human against blood-sucking goblins doesn't sound too bad.

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