TheRealCB
07-25-2012, 01:26 PM
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/07/25/olympic-thriller-greek-athlete-voula-papachristou-banned-from-the-games-for-racist-tweet/
On July 23, Greek Olympian Voula Papahristou, who has already traveled to London to participate in the upcoming Olympics, wrote a comment on her Twitter profile which caused many reactions.
“With so many African people living in Greece, mosquitoes of the West Nile [virus] are eating home-made food,” wrote Mrs Papahristou on her twitter account.
Greek media started retweeting her comment and publishing reports on her comment. She has had to apologize for her statements.
Today’s Thriller!
When Voula Papahristou realized that many people were opting against her comment, describing her as racist, she apologized for her ‘joke.’ “I thought it was a joke, but I feel sorry for offending some people, despite having no such intention,” she replied.
Then she changed her profile picture, removing her face and putting Twitter’s egg. Later on, after having received thousands insulting as well supporting comments, she deleted her personal Twitter profile.
But only a few minutes ago, she made a new one again! “It was a bad joke. I don’t believe in discrimination among humans,” she tweeted.
However, Greek website lifo.gr published some older tweets of Voula Papahristou. Many of them are retweets from far-right Golden Dawn party’s official page or its MPs’ personal pages, all showing her “patriotic” beliefs.
Sons I think it got too far for a bad joke imo.Yes she should know better than posting something like that,but banning her from the Olympics?
On July 23, Greek Olympian Voula Papahristou, who has already traveled to London to participate in the upcoming Olympics, wrote a comment on her Twitter profile which caused many reactions.
“With so many African people living in Greece, mosquitoes of the West Nile [virus] are eating home-made food,” wrote Mrs Papahristou on her twitter account.
Greek media started retweeting her comment and publishing reports on her comment. She has had to apologize for her statements.
Today’s Thriller!
When Voula Papahristou realized that many people were opting against her comment, describing her as racist, she apologized for her ‘joke.’ “I thought it was a joke, but I feel sorry for offending some people, despite having no such intention,” she replied.
Then she changed her profile picture, removing her face and putting Twitter’s egg. Later on, after having received thousands insulting as well supporting comments, she deleted her personal Twitter profile.
But only a few minutes ago, she made a new one again! “It was a bad joke. I don’t believe in discrimination among humans,” she tweeted.
However, Greek website lifo.gr published some older tweets of Voula Papahristou. Many of them are retweets from far-right Golden Dawn party’s official page or its MPs’ personal pages, all showing her “patriotic” beliefs.
Sons I think it got too far for a bad joke imo.Yes she should know better than posting something like that,but banning her from the Olympics?