These Are the Dystopia Olympics

There are plenty of good reasons why Americans are largely tuning out from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

There’s the fatigue factor, as the “2020 Tokyo Summer Games” took place just a few months ago, in Summer 2021—having been delayed for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There’s the anticlimactic visuals of once-again empty Olympic stadiums, leaving no live audience for a TV viewer to relate with, as magnificent athletes perform their astounding feats.

But more than anything, the Beijing Games are simply creepy and sad.

Let’s start with the obvious: the atrocities being committed against the Uyghur Muslims. A number of countries, including the U.S., are staging a diplomatic boycott of the Games to protest China’s staggering human rights violations.