Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Crime-against-history alert
How is it that somebody this ignorant cares about Tibet? And why didn't the other demonstrators fix this embarrassing state of affairs ("hey, dude, the Nazis did host the Olympics")? C'mon San Francisco. You can do better than this.
CWCID: Don Surber for Jules Crittenden.
5 Comments:
By 
Pax Federatica, at
Tue Apr 22, 06:23:00 PM:
And why didn't the other demonstrators fix this embarrassing state of affairs?
Probably because the idiot would then have asked his comrades for a better example so he could make up a new sign. The trouble there is that the only other example with anywhere near the historical oomph as Nazi Germany is the Soviet Union, and they too hosted an Olympic Games. (And even if they didn't, somehow I doubt these folks would be inclined to besmirch the USSR, in this or any other fashion.)
By antithaca, at
Tue Apr 22, 09:05:00 PM:
"C'mon San Francisco. You can do better than this."
As a fan of zombie and the zombietime website...as you sure about this?
By Pax Federatica, at
Tue Apr 22, 09:17:00 PM:
Actually, it just occurred to me that Nazi Germany actually hosted two Olympic Games. The 1936 Berlin Games was the one most people remember, but don't forget the Winter Games held at Garmisch-Partinkirchen earlier that same year. If I'm not mistaken that is the only time that both the Winter and Summer Games were hosted by the same country in the same year.
By 
, at
Wed Apr 23, 11:23:00 AM:
The other really disturbing cognitive issue here is the dissonant juxtaposition between the "would we allow" lefty statement of heartfelt principle from the protest sign and the oft-heard complaint that cowboy America tries to rule the world, telling innocent tyrants like Chavez what he is allowed to do and not allowed to do. Why is OK to pick on China, but not Iran? Why Tibet and not Iraq? Is it only in cases where our national interest can somehow be hurt by lefty assertions of true belief that are OK?
By sleeper, at
Wed Apr 23, 03:13:00 PM:
It reminds me of the photo of antiwar demonstrators in London in 2003 carrying a sign that read "PEACE IN OUR TIME". Nobody, including the blogosphere, commented upon it at the time, so I never learned whether they were so ignorant, or they were embracing Chamberlain. Hard to say which would be worse.
