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Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports

BC Guest Commentator Dave Zirin is the author of the book: "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports", Sports editor @thenation, host of the Edge of Sports Podcastdave ,Co-host of WPFW's The Collision w/Etan Thomas. Contact Mr. Zirin and BC.

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Guest Commentary

Anti-Asian Racism and the 2020 Olympic Games

By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports Guest Commentator

The dehumanization of the Japanese people is a prerequisite for forcing these Pandemic Games on an unwilling population. Racism provides a pretext for going ahead with the Games in the face of all logic.

As far as “gaffes” go on a global scale, one cannot do much worse than calling the Japanese people “Chinese.” It is an error of racism…

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