Monday, March 24, 2008
"Silent diplomacy"
Here's a fun new euphemism:
The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, has defended the decision to hold the Games in China saying: "The major political leaders don't want a boycott" [...]
He told the Associated Press news agency on Monday that he was engaged on a daily basis in "silent diplomacy" with Beijing on Tibet and other human rights issues.
"Silent diplomacy". Brilliant. Next time you have a fight with your girlfriend, remember, she's not refusing to talk to you; she's "engaging in silent diplomacy". The two may superficially appear the same, but they couldn't be more different. Because the Chinese are no different, ultimately, from you and me; they want to be loved, and every minute that Jacques Rogge and the well-lunched suiterati of the IOC give them the "silent diplomacy" treatment, Premier Wen and his mob are shifting uncomfortably in their armchairs and praying for the chilly atmosphere to defrost so they can get things back to the way they were. Well, don't worry, gents, the IOC can't keep this "silent diplomacy" up for long; soon it'll be back to getting your dinner made and your dicks sucked, just like before.
Maybe, as Richard Gere once memorably put it in a batshit outburst during the 1993 Oscars, "we could all send our love and truth and a kind of sanity to Mr Wen right now in Beijing, that he will take his troops and take the Chinese away from Tibet and allow these people to live as free, independent people again. So send this thought out, send this thought out."
That's some loopy shit, granted, but about as effective as the IOC's strategy for dealing with these thugs is likely to be. God forbid that we should do anything to rock the boat; that we could use this tiny, miniscule little bit of leverage to shame these bastards into behaving like a civilised member of the concert of nations rather than a 19th-century colonial power. Fuck the Tibetans, just as long as we get to see our boys run and jump! Fucking hippies anyway.
Anything to keep the dollars flowing, eh, Jacques, you hypocritical twat?
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Ultimately the Olympics are a commercial opportunity and boycotts don't jibe well with positive advertising messages, television ratings, the presentation of China as a happy country and armchair sporting coverage.
Someone should have kicked up a fuss when China was first awarded the Olympics. What's the point of stomping our feet now when nothing can change?
"Silent Diplomacy" was also the phrase used by Tabo Mbeki of Seth Efrica as a reason to do the square root of fuck all in Zimbabwe. As Comrade Bob drove the country to starvation all Seth Efrica had to do is cut off the electricity and Mugabe's head would have been paraded on a pole in downtown Harare; instead they engaged in "Silent diplomacy".
Chris Gallagher
Chris Gallagher
It's time for individual competitors to take a bit of personal responsibility for their actions. If they go to China and take part in the Olympic games they basically don't give a fuck about Tibetan people so fuck them.
Reading the "Metro" this morning i see that a furious International Olympic Committee Vice President, Lambis Nikolaou, suggested they protest in their own country, not his. "It's a disgrace," he said.
No pal, you're the fucking disgrace, you and your whole fucking movement.
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Reading the "Metro" this morning i see that a furious International Olympic Committee Vice President, Lambis Nikolaou, suggested they protest in their own country, not his. "It's a disgrace," he said.
No pal, you're the fucking disgrace, you and your whole fucking movement.
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