The IOC being friendly towards fascists is not news. Even Heraskevych’s ban in the Winter Olympics is a symptom of this.
As a general rule, all large international sports organizations are run by coalitions of far-right leaders and particularly amoral neoliberals.
I love how the PR guy comes clapping back with how Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics. Then put him on a damn shirt! Not a super crypto-fascist looking poster.
They certainly know how to appease the current US administration
They sell merch from all the games, and this one doesn’t feature any Nazi imagery. Unless people are specifically using it to promote Naziism, meh.
It’s just… so blatant. That’s what shocks me the most.
IOC now showing their true colors.
The Olympics as we know them were born in Berlin.
Before 1936, they were disorganized and not particularly popular.
The Nazis saw the propaganda value in the spectacle, so they created the modern Olympics.
Should everything relating to nazi-era Germany be banned?
Merch made with Nazi symbology on it? Yes, it should.
This isn’t a textbook or educational work - it’s promotional merchandise made purely for profit.
This doesn’t have any Nazi symbology on it.
The Nazi Reichsadler is a Nazi symbol, it’s a distinct design.
Sure is. And it’s distinctly not what’s pictured.
The round thing under the eagle is a Nazi symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross?wprov=sfla1
It’s also an ancient symbol for the sun, but so is the swastika.
EDIT: It looks like the whole image is the Nazi designed poster for the Olympics. Like I said in my other comment, they could have just used an image of Jesse Owens for that particular Olympics. Would have been a better message.
It’s an iron cross, added in 1815. It predates Naziism by over a hundred years. https://www.history.com/articles/brandenburg-gate-a-brief-history
