Olympics @sh.itjust.works Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz 5 days ago

Towel with “Taiwan” printed on it was confiscated during the male badminton doubles semi-finals

Video: https://youtu.be/t1lKdcpuo9E?si=KMMDTmZGg_OLYQ5h

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Fuck China. Tawain number one!
Why?
- "Your people's plea for liberation is making some of us uncomfortable."
- Why was it confiscated? Because political messages aren't allowed at the Olympics.
  
  Why is it political? Because China does not recognize Taiwan's independence, and holds much influence over the games. Taiwan competes under the name of Chinese Taipei at the Olympics, and beat China for the gold in doubles Badminton.
  
  It's only political if you're China. Everyone else is fine with "Taiwan".
  
  The CCP has such an incredibly thin skin. This is such a massive show of weakness.
  
  Then the name china can't appear on apparel either it being just as political in reference to the same situation.
  
  They only compete as Chinese Taipei because China has leaned on the commission to not recognize their nation even while self governed. It's the UK telling Canada they can't have Canadian merchandise and have to compete under their Commonwealth name.
  
  I'm also curious if there are size restrictions for signs? In my area it's common to restrict signs to the size of a sheet of paper.
Is that Mr Streisand taking away the towel?
I say we remove mainland China from the games entirely. They can control their own games they host and tell everyone they don't like to fuck off (they won't have to, nobody likes Beijing, nobody would go).
- I think you mean western Taiwan?
- Yeah, then the US would have all the golds to ourselves. 👍
  
  Except in shooting.
  
  There's are other countries winning gold
Damn some security guards need to get their shit rocked more often.
The person grabbing that should be identified and publicly shamed.
- They are security agents
  
  Ok and?
I live in Canada. If I can draw a parallel, would my sign be confiscated if it said "Manitoba"?

At the very least, Taiwan is a district/state/province of China. It may also be a country, depending on who you ask, I suppose.

So why did anyone else care enough to have security go and forcibly remove it from that person?

Politics. That's why.

I bet they'd be fine with someone holding up a sign for "Zhejiang" or "Guangdong" or any other province.

This is stupid.
Incidentally, there's a related thread in !europe@feddit.org. Links to it in a handful of instances:

https://aussie.zone/post/12360961

https://feddit.org/post/1597354

https://lemmy.world/post/18303658

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23242817
Hunter S. Thompson is not impressed.
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