Celebrating Spirit Through Shadow

Is it just me or do the upcoming Olympics seem to be coming off about as well as a Chinese fire drill?

My second question is - do you think the phrase “Chinese fire drill” is racist? Because I certainly don’t harbor any racist feelings towards the Chinese people either as individuals or as a whole and I don’t want my use of it here to be interpreted as such an attitude. It’s just a phrase that I heard and no doubt used a few times in my younger years and, because of this growing “chaotic exercise” that are the Olympics, China, and Tibet, it came to mind.

If ever there was a situation that begged the use of the phrase I suppose this would be it, is what I am saying.

But that explanation aside, I should make it very clear to everyone that I believe it is racist because it implies that the Chinese as a people are “confused, disorganized, or inferior” (as noted in the Wiki article), which, of course, is nonsense.

In fact, I would argue the opposite as would, well, everyone with any common sense really.

No, it’s the Chinese communist government that is confused, disorganized, and inferior and, it appears, incapable of carrying-off the Olympic games without no small amount of embarrassing controversy, not to mention the violent repression of human rights.

Which is too bad. Both because it overshadows the spirit of the Olympics and the spirit of the people of China.

Both of which should be celebrated.

Here’s hoping they can pull it off.

UPDATE:

I don’t think the USA should boycott the Olympics. I think back on the Miracle on Ice of the 1980 Olympics and the boycott that would have denied those young men, and our country, that tranforming event, and I would hate to see our athletes denied their opportunity to make history today. So, let’s go and let’s win.