What a shame that additions to the Files should arise from the Olympic Games. If you hadn't yet seen the picture of Spain's Olympic Basketball team, just take a gander to the left of this text. There you will see the whole gathering of idiots, posing for a pre-games advert for a courier company which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation. The advert, which included the women's team indulging in the same thoughtlessness as the men's was given a full page in Spain's best-selling sports daily, the Marca. There they all stand, every one of the players, pulling at the sides of their eyes in a "slit-eyed" gesture. How fucking stupid do you have to be to take part in such a photo shoot?
Apparently, the claim is being made that no offense was intended by the advert. Bullshit. This whole thing makes you think of a schoolyard bully, who when confronted, claims s/he didn't mean anything and really, can't the target of their nastiness "take a joke"? Especially when you combine this photo with Spain's track record for openly indulging in racism - think Spanish coach Aragones using a racial slur against World Cup player Thierry Henry and receiving nothing more than a slap on the wrist from the Spanish football federation, for instance - it's a real challenge not to see the photo as intentionally racist.
The lack of a functioning brains does seem to be one of the prerequisites for a place on Spain's Olympic basketball teams.
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