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Source: Gawker
The Olympic opening ceremony just wrapped up, and former Russian figure skater Irina Rodnina was the given the honor of lighting the Olympic flame. Rodnina is one of Russia's most successful figure skaters, and is currently a member of Russia's public chamber. She is also, it seems, pretty racist!
In September 2013, she tweeted out the picture you see above (at the link; I won't repeat it here), just one of the many anti-Obama pictures floating around the internet that your racist uncle is so fond of emailing you all the time.
The tweet was quickly deleted, but Rodnina has remained defiant and has yet to apologize for posting the image.
Read more: http://deadspin.com/lady-who-just-lit-olympic-torch-tweeted-a-racist-pictur-1518385560/@Tom-Scocca
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Previously on DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11331758
Russian MP's Obama with banana picture sparks racism debate
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Hence the torch lighting gig... Don't know if it's true or not...
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Did Putin have him disappeared?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)managed to fuck up and tarnish the Olympics in so many ways it sort of knocked the bottom out of our interest this time around. Putin and his herd have just hung a wet blanket over it, at least for us.
MerryBlooms
(11,771 posts)There is a shit-filled cloud hanging over this year's games.
eggplant
(3,913 posts)At this point, it's all rubbernecking.
louslobbs
(3,238 posts)Lou
BodieTown
(147 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Corruption most likely and maybe that stupid 'their turn' thing.
I don't watch and don't have any good words to say about this years Olympics, I am not supporting the blatant evil bigotry there. I feel bad for the athletes that have put so much time and energy into this but hey, sometimes you have to make hard choices.
Fuck Putin.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)watched some of the prelim. last night, but got bored and switched to something else. I feel sorry for the athletes and we wish all of them the very very best. It's such a shame when an event like the Olympics that should be pulling everyone together is basically so icky this time.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Boycotting the Olympics for many reasons this year.
If you want to come over to Korea in 4 years for the games my wife and I will be going.
JI7
(89,264 posts)i'm not into sports but i usually tune in to the olympics because i like how it's an international event and like to see people from different places.
but i just can't get into it this year.
jsr
(7,712 posts)TheMathieu
(456 posts)Security issues, dirty and unfinished hotels, slaughtering innocent dogs, arresting LGBT activists...
Hell, they even fucked up the opening ceremony. The last ring wouldn't open.
Heads should roll at the IOC and Russia shouldn't get one of these events for the next 1,000 years.
7962
(11,841 posts)You never know; here on DU you can see some hilarious pictures!
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)I wonder what the footnote said.
treestar
(82,383 posts)in the 60s.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)scary shit.
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)you're going to be a racist, think of something original. Can't they come up with any new racial jokes for Blacks besides the old banana and monkey combo? That joke is older than my grandma.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)not likely to be imaginative
hatrack
(59,592 posts)How's that "global cultural ambassador" thingie working out?
William769
(55,147 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)Thats what I get for typing while not completing my thought process.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)I'm just adding to your post.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Why is this such a common response when people are called out on their bigotry?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)"So what if I'm an asswipe? I LIKE being an asswipe! And if you don't like it, I'll fuck you up (if i can get away with it)."
redqueen
(115,103 posts)and the ones that reinforce bigotry won't be rationalized with that nonsense so often.
'Freedom of speech' ... I so wish people would spend five fucking minutes learning what those words mean before spewing them out in a feebleminded effort to rationalize idiocy.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Why, I've even heard and seen "jesus loves you" used as a bludgeon.
Yecch.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)I had someone pull that move on the road where they drive really slowly, then when you go to get around them they speed up. So I sped up just enough to manage to get around her and she honked at me! When I looked back at her annoyed, she did that very thing! She mouthed 'Jesus loves you' with this weird look on her face... WTF?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yeah
.nasty ugly hate filled followers of Our Savior, the Prince of Peace like to use that. They pack all the hate they can muster into that phrase, and simultaneously maintain their self-image of sweetness and light.
Or something. They're full of shit.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)bizarrely, like they own the universe, that it's their right to drive slowly, then speed up so you can't pass them, and then cut you off in traffic. I hate to offend anyone, but most religious people we encounter are absolute assholes. And last election they had Romney bumper stickers.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Just google "t rex fish". Images. Lots there.
Also NorthernSun.com sells them
Squinch
(51,004 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I need a new one. I had the T rex.
But that was on my olllld car. needed a new car couple years ago. Now I need more stickers.
Yeah!!
Squinch
(51,004 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Everyone though they were a bastion of diversity anyway, this is a surprising development!
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)that was close . . . now that I know it is on that will missing it that much more enjoyable!
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)There are brave athletes there putting up with bigotry, racism and an Olympic committee rife with politics and greed.
Why we still have a sport created by Ancient Rome thinking it has somehow become a modern example of benevolence is ridiculous on it's face. The X Games make no bones about being commercial and it is actually a better and more contemporary business model. If the corporate world is going to be our overlords why not just be open about it.
The shiny objects, at which we love to stare, are getting more extravagant while next door genocide and war are sucking the very life out of humanity.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)When she was a skater, she was as arrogant as that Pushenko guy supposedly is now. I dislike her even more now.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)Fuck her. One white monkey don't stop no show.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It's Russia. I thought they get a pass?