"The Ministry
of Goodness, ready with a red-hot iron to punish acts of a politically-incorrect
boyfriend, turns out to be surprisingly tolerant of Nazism of a different sort.
... Lebanese athletes refused to practice in the same gym as the Israeli team. This
is not an unfortunate Twitter joke or a boyfriend’s Facebook
post - it is pure racism."
I don't like the Olympic Games. I find the Olympic movement
to be a classic example of institutionalized good intentions ossifying into a rigid
bureaucracy. It is the fate of all good intentions. Jesus Christ called for
people to forgive one another, but Popes live in debauchery and simony. Francis of Assisi
preached to the birds, but his successors have become Pharisees.
The Olympic movement is based, by and large, on a
fundamental lie. According to its tenets, the competition is for amateurs -
those who don't make a living on sport. In some cases the rule is relaxed, but overall
it is still adhered to.
The truth is that the rule has long become self-righteous
hypocrisy, because all athletes who participate at the Olympics train 8-10
hours a day. They simply have no time for anything else. In fact, this means
that athletes can't make a living doing what they do, so must live off his
state or Olympic committee. Thanks to this rule, the movement is led by clerks
and not athletes.
First,
each official wants to expand his organization. In the case of the IOC, this
leads to an ever-multiplying number of sports, most of which, mind you, are of
little interest to spectators and are inherently unprofitable, but give Olympic
officials the right to demand ever-more money, which nations wanting to
participate in the medal race are compelled to continue to give. Funny that curling
is an Olympic sport, but karate is not.
Second, bureaucracies are not known for building systems for
sustaining themselves. As a result, the Olympic Games are becoming more
expensive, and Olympic venues increasingly disposable, which is perfectly
acceptable to the bureaucracies of the host countries.
Third, every bloated bureaucracy sooner or later leads to
corruption. The motives for the IOC's selection of Sochi [Russia] as host of the
2014 Winter Olympics are to say the least suspicious. I expect that such decisions,
accompanied by follow-up vacations by Prince Albert
to hospitable future Olympic sites, will become increasingly common.
And there is another detail. The London Olympics became the
most politically-correct Olympics ever. And this political correctness is at a terminal
stage - even approaching fascism.
Right away, the head
of the Greek Olympic Committee expelled triple-jumper Paraskevi Papachristou for a Twitter joke, "With so many
Africans in Greece ... the West Nile mosquitoes will at least have homemade meals!!!"
The joke bordered on foul, but to ruin the life of someone
who prepared for this competition for so many years is pure fascism. This is the
Ministry of Goodness punishing thought crime.
Then NadjaDrygalla, a member of the German rowing team, was
forced to leave the Games because of a Facebook entry
by ... her boyfriend. The young man, Michael
Fischer, was formerly a neo-Nazi. But according to him he has left the party
and joined the right-wing radical - but legal - National Democratic Party of
Germany. His Facebook post was that he was riding a
train “amidst Blacks and Pakis.”
NadjaDrygalla
herself says she disagrees with her boyfriend’s views and has argued with him many
times over the matter.
This begs a question for the Olympic Committee: are you
nuts, people? What’s next? Disqualification for a father? For a mother? For a
grandfather who served in the SS? For a great grandfather who suppressed the Sepoy Mutiny in India?
But there are more incredible things. The Ministry of
Goodness, ready with a red-hot iron to punish acts of a politically-incorrect
boyfriend, turns out to be surprisingly tolerant of Nazism of a different sort.
For example, Lebanese
judo fighters refused to train in the same gym as the Israeli team. This not
a bad Twitter joke or a boyfriend’s Facebook post - this
is pure racism. In theory, the Olympic Committee should have said: your demands
contradict the Olympic spirit, so we are excluding you from the competition.
Instead, the committee separated the gym with a divider to
protect the tender sensibilities of the Lebanese racists.
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Another example: this year’s Olympics included two female
athletes from Saudi Arabia, Wodjan Ali SerajAbdulrahimShahrkhani and Sarah Attar. They refused to compete without
a hijab. It would seem that the logic of the Olympic
movement is simple: "Guys, this competition is devoted to feats of the
human body. We are not imposing our standards on you, but if you don't accept
them, then leave. Practice sports five times a day on a prayer rug facing Mecca
if you like."
Instead, the Olympic Committee allowed the athletes to
compete wearing a hijab. What’s next? Perhaps other athletes
will be obliged to wear the hijab to even the odds?
Or Saudi Arabia will complain that its female athletes are bothered by the
uncovered heads of women in the stands, so the Olympic committee will put hijabs on female spectators to avoid offending the delicate
sensibilities of Saudi Arabia’s delegation?
In this case, the IOC mirrors the habits of international
bureaucracy. International bureaucracy is ready to stamp out all references to
the heretical notion of the superiority of Western civilization over some others.
That said, let us note that the idea is likely to have no practical consequence whatsoever. Whatever is said on Twitter, Greece is certainly not going to war against Egypt. [A reference to an outbreak of West Nile virus in Greece].
Furthermore, international bureaucracy surrenders to other
types of racism. It is a racism that affirms the superiority of primitive,
archaic, medieval and fanatical cultures over Western civilization.
And let us recognize that these ideas are truly dangerous.
From the demands of Lebanon's athletes is a direct route to Hezbullah ideology.
And the hijab is not a harmless local tradition. It
is a symbol of aggressive Islamist medievalism.
It is time to say: gentlemen and women, Olympic officials,
you make me sick. What you are doing is not internationalism or tolerance. It
is hypocrisy and cowardice. You are prepared to ruin a Greek athlete's life for
an unfortunate joke, knowing that no “Greek Nazi” will retaliate by blowing
you up; but you capitulate the moment there is the slightest danger that standing
up for the Olympic ideal will hurt your delicate hides - or some Islamic sheikh
might be offended at your refusal to allow hijabs at
the competition.
Right away, the head
of the Greek Olympic Committee expelled triple-jumper 
Then 
