{"id":13120,"date":"2022-02-09T04:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2022-02-09T04:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:40:02","slug":"in-the-genocide-olympics-are-we-all-complicit-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=13120","title":{"rendered":"“In the \u2018Genocide Olympics,\u2019 Are We All Complicit?”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Spencer Bokat-Lindell, Debatable, Opinion, Feb.8, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Olympics have been in a state of moral crisis<\/a> for some time now, mired in countless controversies<\/a> over bribery, corruption, financial waste, cheating, environmental damage, forced displacement of local residents and, more recently, the pandemic. But as the Times sports columnist Kurt Streeter wrote<\/a> last week, \u201cBeijing 2022 sits at a whole other level of discord.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casting the darkest pall over the Games by far are the human rights abuses occurring about 2,000 miles away in the region of Xinjiang, where one million or more Uighurs, a Chinese Muslim ethnic group, and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities are reportedly being subjected to mass detentions<\/a>, forced labor<\/a>, sterilization<\/a> and torture<\/a>. Their repression has been described by the Biden administration, among other<\/a> governments<\/a>, as nothing less than a genocide<\/a>. (My former colleague Nick Kristof wrote<\/a> in April about the appropriateness of that label.)<\/p>\n

How, then, should we think about the weight of complicity in what some are calling the \u201cGenocide Olympics\u201d<\/a>? What moral responsibility does China\u2019s human rights record place on all those who participate, from corporate sponsors to athletes to casual viewers? Here\u2019s what people are saying.<\/p>\n

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