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Where is this image from?
I saw this on Distributed Republic blog. I believe it’s from the pro-tibet, anti-chinese government demonstrations in San Francisco.
Putting aside the lack of historical literacy from this particular protester, I actually think the history of the 1936 games is a good reason to allow China to hold the Olympics. In fact, maybe a Tibetan athlete can do for Tibetans what Jesse Owens did for American blacks (and TO the doctrine of Nazism, showing it to be the load of shite that it is). In any case, putting pressure on Western governments to deprive China of the games will do more harm for international good will than the opposite.
Lol
We would never have allowed that!
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Oh wait…
Beautiful.
Ironically, Jesse Owens was cheered lustily by the German audience and said later that he was treated better in Berlin than he was in Washington. He, along with all the other athletes, was invited to visit Hitler at the Reichstag at the conclusion of the games. FDR didn’t acknowledge his feats or ever invite him to the White House!
Forget Tibet.
FREE AMERICA!!!
lmao…let me guess…the people’s republic of california? or maybe someone with a masters degree in pull-the-heart-strings-do-gooder-101?
Oh well, we can always send the US war machine to “save darfur” and “the children” instead.
Why is everybody falling for the oldest trick in the book? What is more likely, this being real, or this being yet another “false flag attack?”
Before I’d jump on any bandwagon, I’d make an effort to determine if this is just an operative undermining an opponent by becoming one of them, and then presenting themselves in an incoherent/ignorant fashion.
I would also assume that if that was a valid do-gooder sign, then the other do-gooders would’ve instantly corrected the sign-bearer, and the sign would’ve never been held aloft to begin with. At least not for more than a few seconds. Which of course, is enough time to snap the picture, making it possible that it is valid.
Which is more likely though, idiocy, or an agent provocateur? (Did I mention that this is a highly charged political protest?)
To me it all depends on how long the sign was held aloft. Does anyone know the answer to that?
Yes, you would have allowed Nazi Germany host the Olympics. In fact, Nazi Germany DID host the olympics in 1936.
* The first-ever relay of the Olympic torch was in Nazi Germany.
* The Berlin Games were the first to be televised in history, being shown on large screens around Berlin.
* Basketball was admitted as an Olympic sport for the first time. In the final—played on a dirt court in the rain, making dribbling impossible—the United States team beat Canada 19–8.
* Denmark’s 12-year-old Inge Sorensen wons a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, making her the youngest medalist ever in an individual event.
How’s that for a history lesson?
A BIG thanks to all the oppressed and semi-oppressed American minorities and sub-cultures of the general larger American culture who donned military uniforms and assisted in the fight against what had to be fought.
Despite your lesser status at home you perofrmed a good deed and deserve a HUGE “Well Done” along with all the other vets from that global conflict.
And, my own little special “Thanks Bro” for my comrades from the ‘Nam and that era.
Carry on
Another tribute to public “education”, I suppose. At least somebody knew that there WAS a Nazi Germany, knows that there was an Olympics during the time when said Nazi Germany existed, and knows that there exists boycotts as an expression of political protest.
They did forget the fact that Germany did indeed host Olympic Games (in 1936), but then you can’t have everything. The sign at least spelled the name right.
The blessing of “publik skoolz”!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller
These people are freaking idiots!
This is photoshopped! The original page was posted on a window… not on a sign during a protest.
Wonder why they did that?
Reckoner,
I examined the image up close. As a digital imaging professional, I can say with almost certainty that this has not been “photoshopped.” There are no signs of image manipulation, smudged pixels or fractals, etc. It is quite possible that a similar page was posted on a window. However, it appears that this was an actual sign at the protest. Perhaps the sign was removed from the window and made into a sign. I don’t know.
To be fair, the 1936 Olympics weren’t awarded to Nazi Germany, they were awarded to pre-Nazi Germany.
I’m no expert, but that looks photo-shopped to me. The letters on the sign are much clearer than the rest of the image. The shadows of the papers attached to the top of the sign fall in a different direction than the shadows on the guy wearing the A’s baseball cap at the bottom on the right side. Still, the contrast between the 1936 situation and today’s is a good point.
Sam – 1936 Olympics were not pre-Nazi, they were pre-WW2
OOPS..the Olympic City-picking may well have chosen Berlin during the Wiemar Republic days..if so, 10^3 pardons.
If that really is from San Francisco, take heart that someone else here had a sign that read: “Germany 1936: Bad idea. China 2008: Bad idea.” So at least one person, politics aside, had a grip on modern history. 🙂
The Chinese occupation of Tibet is awful, certainly, but it pales beside the open genocide that has been going on for 60 years in occupied Palestine. Further, Americans are not funding the Chinese occupation, whereas we are funding the genocidal Zionist entity to the tune of $7,000,000 dollars a day.
yep – April of 1931 was the awarding.
NOT ONLY DID NAZI GERMANY HOST THE OLYMPICS, BUT THEY ALSO STARTED THE TORCH RUN!!
READ A LITTLE — DUMB ASS.