The inclusion of clips from Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia film makes clear that attempts to sanitise the crimes of the National Socialists is not limited to the spheres of politics and academia.
Counterpoint: the idea of the Olympics are cool and good, and represent a really cool unity of the world through sport. The modern implementation, with forced labor building incredibly expensive stadiums, not so much.
counter-counterpoint: it never was about world unity. As back then before the olympics were established, a lot of sports were seen as a pastime for the idle rich. But right around the turn of the century, professional sports started to become a thing, and the rich despised them, because they allowed poor people to support themselves by playing the games that used to be exclusive to the upper class.
Now the rules on who can compete in the olympics have been loosened since then, but due to how little olympic athletes are paid the olympics was and always will be about the rich clinging onto the idea that pursuing athletics should be done on a leisure basis. A "for the love of the game" sort of deal because the poor people "took" something from them.
Right, amatuerism was dumb and bad. My personal sport, rowing, went from a working class sport which started as a competition between guys who punted travelers across the Thames into a sport where the poor were literally banned from competing. And right now, rowing is by and large a sport that only fosters the wealthy.
However, in a socialist society, sporting competitions between districts should be organized.
Counterpoint: the idea of the Olympics are cool and good, and represent a really cool unity of the world through sport. The modern implementation, with forced labor building incredibly expensive stadiums, not so much.
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counter-counterpoint: it never was about world unity. As back then before the olympics were established, a lot of sports were seen as a pastime for the idle rich. But right around the turn of the century, professional sports started to become a thing, and the rich despised them, because they allowed poor people to support themselves by playing the games that used to be exclusive to the upper class.
Now the rules on who can compete in the olympics have been loosened since then, but due to how little olympic athletes are paid the olympics was and always will be about the rich clinging onto the idea that pursuing athletics should be done on a leisure basis. A "for the love of the game" sort of deal because the poor people "took" something from them.
Right, amatuerism was dumb and bad. My personal sport, rowing, went from a working class sport which started as a competition between guys who punted travelers across the Thames into a sport where the poor were literally banned from competing. And right now, rowing is by and large a sport that only fosters the wealthy.
However, in a socialist society, sporting competitions between districts should be organized.