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Wednesday, July 25, 2012


Well the punishment police strike again and the Olympic dreams of a young Greek athlete are shattered.  Voula Papachristou, the 23-year-old Greek triple jumper posted this on twitter: "With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will be eating home made food."  For that she was deprived of the dream she has worked her whole young lifetime to achieve.  Was her tweet tasteless, offensive, stupid, racist even?  Yes to all.  Was it worth destroying her? No.  My granddaughter posted on facebook that a famous actor was "dog poop" but she in not an Olympic athlete so no one noticed it.  My email from right wing friends (yes I have some of those) are full of the most racist, bigoted vile comments about blacks and Hispanics you can imagine and the senders think these are really funny.  Of course, they are not Olympic athletes either so what the hell.  Freedom of speech?  Sure, just as long as you are not in the media spotlight and don't say anything that can be minimally construed to offend anybody.  I suppose the Greek government is really proud of punishing this kid and showing the world how tough they are on youthful stupidity.

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