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That's a rather absurd grasping at straws argument for the olympics spectacle not being as much of a mockery as the image above.
Translation: Don't object to it. Act like you don't care. Act like you're okay with it.
By all means, object to it. Just know you’re likely falling for their trap of getting a predictable reaction out of you and generating buzz and clicks.
I get it. If we object to this we're being suckers, so we should act like we don't care about anything they do.
I mean… do you really care? It’s the opening ceremony for the Olympics. It’s not like this the Catholic Church putting on the show or something. It is a secular event after all.
Jesus saying that does not mean we are supposed to remain silent regarding immorality and wrongdoing. I mean you might as well apply that to speaking out against white supremacists the way you're trying to use it.
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It angers me but more than anything it makes me sad. I'm sad to see Jesus and the last supper mocked this way.
Again, I get it. I shouldn't say anything about it. No matter how you slice it, "keep quiet" is the obvious persuasion.
I don't know. Did they really want to turn off millions upon millions of those in the religious sectors? You would wonder why they would want to. They spend a number of years to create an event that everyone overall would consider was stellar? You tick off millions of potential viewers...WHY? The reaction they'll get I think they'll find was counterproductive to their goals.
Well maybe to a point. I think overall it's counter productive to achieving greater viewer ship of the games. But what do I know. I'm the type of person who if a business got too political or controversial I'd be saying they're doing pretty dumb and I'd probably go somewhere else. There's so many options of different type of sports one could put their attention on.....you want to tick me off......think I'll just watch national football or baseball or maybe even bowling. Oh yeah you over in Paris? Enjoy your games.
Purely from a technical perspective, this broadcast was loaded with errors and malfunctions, not the least of which was them flying the Olympic flag upside down. The camera work was atrocious; Peacock's feed had tons of audio hitches; and the commentators kept talking over the musical segments. It was bad enough that it was kind of hard to watch. I'm following a couple discussions about it in some production groups and the bad camera work seems to at least be partly a result of some poor choices that were then exacerbated by the rain that wasn't sufficiently planned for. Many of the cameras were robotic, remote-controlled cams built onto large truss structures mounted on boats, but only some of the cameras had anti-rain gear, while others were mounted high enough on the truss that it was hard for the operators to wipe them. Even with gimbles, boats are unstable - making the image bounce around a lot, and a bunch of cameras kept failing in the rain.
