THIS:
“The shocking image shows top female tennis players making “slit-eyed” gestures, and was found on the official website of the country’s Spanish Tennis Federation – RFET. The latest group are seen pulling back the skin at their temples to give a slit-eyed look, alongside the caption: “Estamos preparados para China” (we are prepared for China).”
[Top image with asinine caption from here.]
OR THIS:
“Tiananmen Square [1989] This is the picture of a student/man going to work who has just had enough. The days leading up to this event thousands of protesters and innocent by standers were killed by their own government because the Chinese people wanted more rights. He tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square by standing in front of them and climbed on the tank and hitting the hatch and yelling, the tank driver didn’t crush the man with the bags as a group of unknown people came and dragged him away, we still don’t know if the man is alive or dead as the Chinese government executed many of the protesters involved. China is still controlled by a communist regime, but while there are strong willed men like this the country still has hope.”
[Bottom image and caption from here. Heavily sanitized version here.]
Sunday, 17 August 2008 at 10:50 PM
I’m 100% for giving the government of China the crap it deserves for its treatment of the people of China. But I am also 100% for giving the Spanish tennis and basketball teams the crap they deserve for their treatment of the people of China.
I knew this Olympics was going to set a new low in graft and dissembling but I didn’t realize the rest of the world would swallow whole the lies they dished out. Come on: these are the people who poisoned your pets last year!
Sunday, 17 August 2008 at 11:39 PM
Rain–
I didn’t realize the Spanish teams provided treatment to the people of China. Those teams must be awfully busy.
It was an innocent stupid joke caught on camera (and I’ll admit that it was in poor taste) but innocent just the same. I see no hate there.
But this part of your comment intrigues me: “…this Olympics was going to set a new low in … dissembling?”
Tuesday, 19 August 2008 at 4:58 AM
It was a picture in bad taste. No one was hurt. However picture two is much more disturbing and should have more focus on it.