They’re betting that you won’t care.” They assume “you’ll get so swept up in the habitual biennial excitement that you shrug off the fact that the government hosting the games has at least a million people in concentration camps and is forcibly sterilizing ethnic and religious minorities.” Best root for “our favorite American athletes” but watch “no more than we feel is necessary and hope these games generate lower-than-usual ratings, reflecting our inability to fully cheer these ‘Genocide Games.’ ” Politics 101: Joe’s Latest Bungle
They know you’re going to hear about the ongoing crimes of the Chinese government. China’s regime and the International Olympic Committee “have effectively placed a giant bet. The “Olympics in Beijing appear set to be a moral disaster, raising the question of whether Americans can watch the events in good conscience,” declares National Review’s Jim Geraghty. the white guilt dies hard.” Now the debate has her in “an ideological midlife crisis, questioning all my prior political assumptions.” Olympic desk: Beijing Games a ‘Moral Disaster’ When remote learning failed her son, Bodenheimer reluctantly sought to get him into a private school: “Prioritizing being a ‘good leftist’ at the expense of my son’s well-being wasn’t good parenting, but. “People across the political spectrum” grew “frustrated” with Democrats’ positions on reopenings - only to be called “Trump supporters,” white supremacists or “Karens.” Never mind that “schools across the country (in red states) opened” without major outbreaks.
Everyone faced the “psychological, social and economic” costs - which include lower life expectancies amongst the young thanks to “impacts on other aspects of medical care,” though COVID “was almost exclusively a threat to the elderly.” Progressive: The Agony of Breaking RanksĪt Politico, progressive Rebecca Bodenheimer relates her shock at the “social repercussions” and “political identity crisis” that “becoming a school-reopening advocate” triggered. Some “countries that locked down the hardest are also those with the highest mortality figures and excess death rate.” For example, Michigan favored “severe restrictions while Wisconsin lifted them much earlier” - yet Michigan’s COVID mortality rate is much higher than next-door Wisconsin’s. There’s been “little critical analysis from the mainstream left” on whether COVID restrictions “served the collective good - or saved lives for that matter,” note Thomas Fazi and Toby Green at UnHerd.