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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