Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Beijing Winter Olympics in the 'hood

Somebody's got it in for China and the upcoming extravaganza. Here an ice hockey enforcer takes down a barefoot monk.

Ubiquitous surveillance cameras make a kind of mogul.

How about some coronavirus curling? 

These posters have turned up on random Mission District phone polls. Don't disagree with the sentiments behind the first two here, but mostly I'm just reminded that Olympics equate with noxious nationalisms. 

UPDATE: the posters were created by Australia-based Chinese artist Badiucao. An oft-censored critic of the Chinese government, Badiucao’s series satirized the Beijing Olympics and China’s human rights record.