The BBC reports:

German cross-country skiers turned their backs on the Russian gold medallists on the Winter Paralympics podium in protest against the nation's inclusion at the Games.

Hmmm.

I don't remember Soviet Union athletes turning their backs on Germans after WW2 when the Nazis were responsible for the deaths of millions of people in the Soviet Union.

This gesture is about as useful as 'taking the knee' was during the time of Black Lives Matter.

Even German athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics did not turn their back on so-called 'inferior races' and some of those athletes were Nazis!

The 1936 Berlin Olympics banned Jewish athletes simply because they were Jewish. Now Germans want to ban Russians because they are Russian.

Does no-one get the similarity here?

And why is this behaviour appropriate in today's world?

Why does sport have to be politicized in this way and participants show disrespect for the International Paralympic Committee's decision to lift its suspension of Russia in September?

If you feel that strongly about it, don't participate in the games.

It's also interesting to remember that black athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos did not turn their back on 'oppressive' white athletes at the 1968 Olympics.

Their protest was a protest against racial injustice, not a rejection of individual white athletes who happened to be white.

Instead of turning their backs, they turned to face the U.S. flag while raising their fists, symbolizing solidarity with oppressed Black people.

AI finds this post 'inflammatory', which is of course a perspective.