The Ghost of Jesse Owens
Bookworm on Jul 13 2008 at 2:31 pm | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran
We all know the story: Adolf Hitler planned for the 1936 Olympics to showcase Aryan supremacy, only to have his little race-building effort destroyed by the great Jesse Owens.
Iran, apparently, isn’t taking any chances. It’s decided that it simply cannot afford to risk having one of its athletes race against Jews — for (who knows?) the Jew might win. That, of course, is not what Iran says. It simply announced that it’s swimmer would not compete in the same heat as an Jewish swimmer, presumably because being in the same pool as a Jew might cause some contamination. (You might want to check the air you breath too, Mr. Iranian, and, this is just a suggestion, stop breathing.)
Still, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s really going on. Iran cannot afford a Jesse Owens moment, can it?
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I hope that the Olympic officials told the ARYAN he had no choice of heat, and that if he refused to compete in the heat he was assigned to, he would be disqualified from further competition in that event.
Mmm.
Gringo, I like your usage of the word Aryan, yes, indeed.
Bookworm, I am given to understand that it was a German who told Jessie Owens how to have a qualifying jump, being the sportsman he was. I also am given to understand that (at least in public) Hitler was rather gracious about the whole thing. Of course, the whole incident could have started the war a few years earlier than Hitler had planned…
And is it not so that most anti-Semites don’t believe Jews are necessarily ‘bad’ performance-wise, but that they are ‘in control’ of everything? Maybe the Iranians can explain that the heats have been rigged by the Jooos somehow, can’t prove it but it’s rigged, and participation would be pointless…
I guess you could be right about it, though. The Quran does mention something about apes and pigs and dogs and whatnot, iirc.
Yes, it must be a grand cosmetic irony that Hitler chose the Aryans, who were originally from the Parthian steppes and Iranian territories, for his Master Race.
I’m trying to understand how leftists think,
Iranians refusing to be in the same swimming pool as a Jew= no outrage from the left, no cries of ” racism! “, everything is fine.
Geraldine Ferraro saying if Obama was not black he would not get as much attention = The left goes insane and cries
” racism!!!1!!!!111!!!11″
mmmmh…
how intriguing…