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Originally Posted by Taualumna
The only reason why Beijing got the Olympics was because TPTB thought that it would improve their human rights issues. Otherwise, it would have gone to Toronto (we were in the final two anyway). We have our issues here with poverty, etc, but it's really no different from any other big city.
My worry now is that these issues could lead to hate crimes against the Chinese communities outside of China.
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It's never that simple and it just makes Toronto sound like it's crying sour grapes.