[Spanish Women's basketball team]
[Spanish tennis team]
[Argentinian soccer team]
Tip of the hat to Angry Asian Man. Words fail me. I think these images speak for themselves, but for anyone who thinks this is all just good fun and games, I'll provide some analysis and break down the racism tomorrow.
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Tangential, but watching the opening ceremonies, I found myself thinking "wow, that's a light-skinned Brazilian team! What's up with that?"
I knew about the men's basketball and tennis teams, but I didn't know that others did the same.
Beyond the offensiveness, did they NOT believe that there would be backlash, at least in the Western world from media, advertisers and fans?
A lot of the articles that referenced those photos pointed to Spain's rather unfortunate recent history with sports and race.
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