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I won't retweet it, but I'm interested to know what @Olympics and IOC press team thought they were doing sharing footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany w/flippant #TBT hashtag. The footage was mostly from Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Olympia. Thoughts🧵1/13
This film must be handled with caution & context. To us, its footage looks unremarkable, but it largely *created* norms about how sports are represented and filmed. Think on that a moment. Our film techniques in sports trace their origins in many ways back to Nazi propaganda. 2/
This is why I teach this film. It shows us continuities between our societies today and the racial ideologies and fascism of Nazism. It should remind us how the racist and heterosexist structures of sport are too often invisible/unremarkable, easily mistaken for common sense. 3/
