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WATCH: Johnny Weir Discuss Sochi Olympics with Olbermann
Has the Olympic figure skater overstepped?
September 13 2013 9:23 AM EST
February 05 2015 9:27 PM EST
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Earlier this week Weir discussed the Sochi Olympics with Olbermann, who has taken it as a personal mission to educate the ESPN2 watchers about the treatment of LGBT people after the Putin anti-homosexual propaganda laws.
The strangest thing wasn't that Weir stated his anti-boycott stance. He's been quite clear about that--even stating that he'd risk being arrested for the chance to compete in what will most likely be his last Winter Olympics. But he also wore a Russian uniform, seeking to be a coy provocateur. Is it just more playful Weir or worse? As Michael Lucas states in an op/ed:
Now imagine, please, that Weir was a Jewish athlete being interviewed about whether the United States should participate in Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Munich. Imagine that--because he considers himself "first and foremost an Olympian"--he was arguing that we should attend. Fine, he has a right to his opinion. But now imagine that, while arguing that we should participate in Hitler's Olympics, he wore an armband with a swastika on it.
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