The torch lighting at the Beijing 2022 winter olympics was more like gaslighting, as the Chinese govt. put a Uyghur athlete front and center. As @mehdirhasan explains, China might think they can play by their own rules, but we need to prove them wrong. WATCH:

Feb 7, 2022 · 1:59 AM UTC

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you're better than this mehdi
Also, the "final torch" lighting was a little weak. Like their attempt to seem compliant with human rights issues.
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China should not be allowed to host anything.
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"Brutal communist regime". Still using copy from the 1950's. No-one outside the western core even believes this anymore. Certainly not from some "Brutal capitalist regime"!
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@MehdiHasanShow I'm so utterly proud of the caliber of reporting tonight on the show. And I give a damn about the Yemenis and the Uyghurs, as well as, the role of the media to hold our government to account and demand transparency, validity and evidence to it's choices and words
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Thank you for speaking up
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China - ‘how can you accuse us of mistreating Uighurs? Our torch bearer is Uighur.’ World - ‘they have a point’
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This is bad faith reporting in the finest traditions of Iraq WMD and Russiagate. Take a series of thinly sourced accusations and accompany them with hair-on-fire rhetoric while giving no opportunity to look critically at the accusations or the corrupt motives of the accusers.
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So well Mehdi why don't u REALLY take a STAND for a CHANGE? It's YOUR network NBC that's broadcasting these Olympics & paying out size cash to all the thugs who've brought us the CHINESE WINTER OLYMPICS. But then u are nothing but a WEAK fraud & phony which most of us know by now
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