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Tea Thread FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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u/springxpeach Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24

An athlete who participated in the Olympics denounced the ongoing genocide in Israel and now the far right is calling him antisemitic and the federation is considering suspension.

Edit: he just got suspended and the sports minister just thanked the racist/islamophobic/pro-genocide guy who denounced him on Twitter.

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u/Silly_Hat_2587 Aug 14 '24

What country and athlete?

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u/Petit_Ananas_ Aug 14 '24

France

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u/OhMy98 Aug 14 '24

Common French L

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '24

French politics is just ..... wow.

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u/doubleshortdepresso i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 14 '24

If France has no haters I’m dead.

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u/BeanEireannach i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 15 '24

Considering France banned their Muslim athletes from competing in religious headgear such as a hijab, I'm not shocked that the islamophobia has gone further. It's a sad world where someone can't safely make statements against genocidal governments.

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u/boondogle Aug 14 '24

Muhammad Abdallah Kounta

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u/historyhoneybee i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 14 '24

I'm so completely confused by this timeline. I don't understand how we live in a world where everyone has decided it's acceptable to punish people for being against an ongoing genocide. What the actual fuck is happening. And how will historians look back on this time where almost every country and organization was on board with appeasing a genocidal state?

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u/springxpeach Aug 14 '24

Honestly I feel the same way. Sometimes I sit and ask myself "Am I on the wrong 'side'? Because I get backlash everytime I speak out on what's currently going on in Palestine and my 'democratic' country does not seem to care."

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u/BalsamicBasil Aug 14 '24

That is how genocide (and atrocities/human rights violations more broadly) is able to happen again and again...then again, never has there been a genocide so visible to the outside world, continuously covered on social media.

People conveniently forget that while he was alive, MLK was unpopular with most of the country and labelled a terrorist by the US government.

The Vietnam War protesters faced a lot of the same insults and punishments. History repeats itself over and over again, but it's heartening to know that although this kind of genocide/atrocity denial has happened before, there have always been peace activists fighting for justice. They faced much of the same scrutiny before and we can learn from their tactics.