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Spanish Athletes Slant Eye Mockery Pt 2: Opps, They Did It Again
August 18th, 2008
Like a particular dim-witted blond singer, who couldn’t stop making negative headlines late last year and early this year; the Spanish Olympic team doesn’t seem to have much quit in them either.
I find the Spanish Olympic contingent to be unbelievable. If you would have brought this to me as a movie script, I would laugh and say it was too unrealistic even for Hollywood.
Accomplished, world traveled grown folks, dealing in world affairs (as the Olympic committees of every country have to traverse the world of global political implications and what not as a part of what they do) being proportedly absolutely clues about basic respect in general and obvious cultural respect in particular.
Yet, on top of the men’s and women’s basketball teams doing slant eye official photos for an ad in Spain, which they claim they did simply on the insistence of the advertiser (as if that some how makes it okay for them to go along); we now have a picture of other Spanish athletes having taken a private amateur picture that was insisted upon by no one.
Worst yet, the Spanish Tennis Federation put it up on their official website and kept it their for weeks until just recently being called on it:
Are you shittin’ me?
Please tell me, since when is mocking people’s physical features, especially one for which they’ve been degraded by throughout history; been a sign of unity or a respectful salute? In what culture is mocking the way people look, not considered offensive? But this is what the Spanish continue to claim.
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According to SkyNews
Olympic tennis silver-medallist Garrigues insisted the snap was not “racist” and was not intended to cause offence.
“We did it because we came to China. We don’t want to do anything bad for Chinese people or Asian people,” she said.
“We think maybe we took a bad picture but we never wanted to offend anybody. We didn’t see it as a racist gesture.”
Asked if she wanted to apologise, she replied: “Yes, sure. We never wanted to do anything bad.”
This is like going to an epileptic convention and thrashing about on the floor, and telling me you were just doing it to show respect and unity for epileptics. Or going to a Little Peoples convention and walking around on your knees and talking to them like a baby, and telling you didn’t’ know that was condescending and didn’t mean to be offensive.
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