Tyger_purr opened this issue on Aug 24, 2006 · 26 posts
kuroyume0161 posted Thu, 24 August 2006 at 1:54 PM
Didn't we deal with 'fascists' (or near enough) during the McCarthy era. Witch hunts and trials - turn in your neighbor, get a 'free car!' Are they back? :)
Speaking of fascism, I saw a very interesting documentary about a female German high-jumper who also happend to be Jewish. She could have been in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but her part to play was to console the Olympic Commitee that Nazi Germany was indeed going to have a Jewish athlete on their team. She was dismissed from the team just before the beginning on 'lack of performance qualifications' (one of the best in Germany and who was only matched by another high-jumper who was a ringer (a man posing as a woman)). She was a scapegoat for the scapegoat and used solely to avoid the banning of the Olympics by the USA.
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