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In reply to the discussion: White Male Privilege Is Why We Laugh At Lochte And Vilify Douglas [View all]DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)Dave Zirin stated this European/American attitude re Brazil on today's broadcast of Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/19/dave_zirin_brazilians_are_fed_up
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to have Ryan Lochte and friends literally and figuratively urinate all over . . . and also be the kind of stereotype of the ugly American who believes there is no sin below the equator, who exploits peoples biggest stereotypes about Rio and crime, and attempts to leverage the fact that theyre wealthy and white and Olympians and could somehow just blame it on the brown people, get on a plane and go home, what it manages to do is touch every nerve in Brazilian society right now and create a kind of bizarre unity of Brazilians, who are saying, "Wait a minute, we deserve a lot better than this for the effort that we have put in to staging these Games under unendurable circumstances."
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That expression is also a chapter in his book Brazil's Dance With The Devil