I see that heaps of folks are having fun with this sign, recently displayed at a pro-Tibet rally in San Francisco:
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It is possible of course, that our friend here doesn’t know that the 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin*. But isn’t it also possible that our friendly demonstrator is actually asking an excellent question: would we in fact have permitted Nazi Germany to host the Olympic games? I suspect we would, since, a) the games were awarded to Germany in 1931 and b) the Germany of 1936 was not, quite, the Germany of 1938.
In any case, surely the point of the poster is in fact to compare China to Nazi Germany, not to display the protestor’s historical ignorance. Why, the poster may be saying, are we not holding China to a higher standard? Shame on us for not doing so.
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