There is no Olympic glory in this.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

As NBC News reported via Twitter, the Chinese Communist Party chose a member of the Uyghur minority

to complete the torch relay and deliver the Olympic flame to the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.

The Uyghurs are a ethnic minority in China's western region.

They've been targeted in Chairman Xi's nationalistic and totalitarian

agenda sent to concentration camps subjected to systematic rape, forced abortion, and sterilization.

By any measure, it's genocide. Going into the games, the world already knew that the Uyghurs

were being subjected to the same sort of atrocities that came to define evil in the last century.

And so it seems the same kind of propaganda.

As CNN's Jake Tapper put it, it's hard to imagine a more cynical move.

Look, we can't keep tyrants from being tyrannical,

but we can refuse to pretend that what they do is normal,

and we can call on our leaders to always do the same.

Anything less would be, as Alexander Solton-Etsin put it,

to live by lies. That's something we must never do. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.