Olympic Boycott | Does it Matter?
I like sports. I like the Olympics too.
I like to think that I care about the big things especially on issues of justice. It’s easy for us to care about starving kids and all out genocide, but where is the standard for caring? At what point should we show up and and do something?
Should we care about the Chinese occupation of Tibet? It’s not like they are killing people left and right.
Maybe we don’t need to go on a hunger strike or riot in the streets, but we should at least educate ourselves. Which when I think about it, sounds like a weak effort.
Maybe we don’t care about the little things because it doesn’t seem like it matters; it’s not like I can point to a picture of a kid on my fridge that I am supporting if I boycott the Olympics.
But maybe I should learn to care when it doesn’t get ME anything
