[2007]my 2 cents

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Wei Wu     wuw2 at onid.oregonstate.edu
Thu May 10 18:35:14 PDT 2007

glad to see passion from our community members. I am sure CAOSU
committee already have a plan for handling this issue. Personally, I
hope we could approach it based on following rules:

1. One and the only goal: To educate barometer readers on the bias and
inaccuracy of today's column and the essence of Olympic game.

HERE I want to quote one email from my friend Lida Li (his email was
blocked to the list)
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Another point we should fight back is that she connects politics to
sports.  She played a trick to cut the fundamental principle of
Olympics. The full principle can be found in:
http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf


"1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a
balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with
culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on
the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and
respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."  (Olympic Charter
2004, Fundamental Principles, paragraph 1)

More importantly, she pretended not seeing the bulletin 5:

"5. Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on
grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible
with belonging to the Olympic Movement."

We should educate her.
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2. Instead of completely denial, admit the fact that china has human
right issues. And we don't need fellow Americans to remind us the
Tianmen square, it left scar on every Chinese’s heart. In fact, we
learned from it and keep on solving human right issues. Again, I wish we
had data to back up this argument.

2. Do not turn this into a finger pointing game. for example, saying
something like: Shame on Salt lake city. these kind of argument won't
help on correcting the bias on our country.

3. This is the tricky one: Free Tibet. I believe even in our community,
there are different opinions, We should try not made the mistake the
author made -- rush into conclusion, I like what Lianguo Luo said in his
email, show people data, show people the slavery history of Tibet.
Invite people to go there to see through their own eyes. And the
baseline is: Shouldn't native american have the equal right to call Free
North Dakota, Free New Mexico, Free ......? Yes, of course, but most of
them are dead. Don't ask me how.

4. Try not to argue with the author through personal email, even you
found her onid email somewhere, instead, send it to barometer.

5. Proofread our response, I guess in order to prove we are not
"Cavemen", spelling right is the least we can do.


At last, We are not surprised to see a 20-year-old girl showing the
famous american arrogancy and pride in her essence. But we are
disappointed at her education in political science which we believe
still value the basic scientific method ---- logical reasoning based on
complete survey of fact.

Just my 2 cents. Thanks


Wei Wu