829: Sportswashing | Skeptical Sunday

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this Skeptical Sunday, we explore the PR tactic of sportswashing—in which authoritarian regimes use sports to improve their image on the world stage.

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0:21.3	Remember, homosexuality was only legalized in the UK in 1967,
0:25.7	and it was still illegal in parts of the states
0:28.8	until 2003.
0:30.8	Can we really go about lecturing others on their morals
0:33.9	when we only just cleaned up our own act?
0:36.1	I talked about the deaf penalty being barbaric,
0:38.1	but that's how the UK treated one of our greatest heroes,
0:40.9	Alan Turing, who cracked the German codes in World War II,
0:43.8	saved millions of lives and was ostracized and criminalized
0:47.6	for being gay, and he appears to have committed suicide
0:50.3	as a direct consequence.
0:56.0	Welcome to the show.
0:57.0	I'm Jordan Harbinger.
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