{"id":177580,"date":"2019-08-13T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/13\/poster-child-for-lack-of-moral-standing\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:35:00","slug":"poster-child-for-lack-of-moral-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/13\/poster-child-for-lack-of-moral-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster Child for Lack of Moral Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the organization generally known as the US Olympic Committee (It&#8217;s actually the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee).<\/p>\n<p>They have gotten their panties in a bunch because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/08\/11\/american-fencer-kneels-medal-stand-during-anthem-protest-gun-violence-trump-racism\/\">athletes have used the medal awards ceremonies to protest issues of racism and law enforcement misconduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some have kneeled, some have used an outstretched fist, and not the OSOC is threatening sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>This is an organization that covered up the sexual abuse of Larry Nassar,&nbsp; was complicit in corruption at the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and was the proximate or contributing cause of dozens of other scandals.<\/p>\n<p>F%$# them.&nbsp; They&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/when-athletes-kneel-the-rotten-us-olympic-regime-has-no-moral-standing-to-object\/2019\/08\/12\/4d8013b8-bd31-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html\">have no moral standing whatsoever to claim to be guardians of the Olympics or of the Olympic ideal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the organization generally known as the US Olympic Committee (It&#8217;s actually the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee). They have gotten their panties in a bunch because athletes have used the medal awards ceremonies to protest issues of racism and law enforcement misconduct. Some have kneeled, some have used an outstretched fist, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,368,387,590,503,403],"class_list":["post-177580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-protests","tag-sports","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}