# Is the London Olympic Logo Racist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994 "2011-02-28T23:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/81 "2011-03-02T00:52:48Z")
I think getting “Zion” out of the London Olympics logo is on par with getting “Wellington will decisively defeat Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo” from “Nay pon Ar Hay Hay the great beast will slither across the water to the wailing of the land of Muster changing all the par han plops” in some of Nostradamus’ scribblings. That said, it is nice to see that the London Olympic mascots are as stupid as Atlanta’s Olympic mascot, a sperm cell with lightning coming out of its butt. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/82 "2011-03-02T06:52:56Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > You have to be predisposed to seeing a Zionist logo. It is like religious people who see faces of Jesus in a piece of toast or a shadow of Virgin Mary on the wall of a church. You can see what you want if you try hard enough and want to. But it isn’t there. What if someone saw Mohammed’s face in a slice of prosciutto? Would you say that wasn’t there? Or would you just issue a fatwa on the prosciutto and be done with it? ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/83 "2011-03-02T23:06:26Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I think as well as being 2012 it could also be a stylized continental map. 2=North America, 0=Eurasia, 1= South America, 2=Africa. So, we Eurasians are zeros? Well, fuck you Olympic games, fuck you, and thank you for destroying my hard gained confidence. Thank you very much. Now, I have to get up to my room and cry it out! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/84 "2011-03-02T23:23:55Z")
Ahmadinejad is right. This logo is racist because it spells Zion, also pornographic for looking like a woman giving a blowjob, and antisemitic because it includes the SS symbol. I must thank him for drawing attention to this offense again human good taste, and launching a crusade that hopefully will get us rid of this logo. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/85 "2011-03-03T00:10:14Z")
If you think of the shapes as puzzle pieces, they can obviously be arranged to form a swastika. This also explains the otherwise inexplicable “dot”, which is necessary to complete the swastika. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/86 "2011-03-03T00:23:41Z")
Somehow, I hope the logo is racist and Lisa’s blowjob and many more hateful things…at least it would explain how bad it is; there would be a reason for the madness. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/87 "2011-03-03T00:36:21Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Yeah, but then, what the crap is that giant dot? A land bridge between S. America and Africa? The Canary Islands? A huge supertanker? The Kraken? What?! > [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Oooooooooo…I vote for the Kraken! [Release the Kraken](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqC_m3yUDU&feature=related)! ---
**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/88 "2011-03-03T12:27:09Z")
Not racist but sinfully ugly, indeed itself an offence against all that is holy. Sadly the idiots may have prevented any change since now changing it will provoke loud cries of “Giving into Islamic radicals.” ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/89 "2011-03-04T19:05:07Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Re: the Lisa Simpson angle. In the past I’ve seen the person on the left as not having a head, but I just noticed that if he does have a head that head is shaped disturbingly like Bart’s. > [http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=6167220](http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=6167220) > > Anyway. Ugly logo. Stupid Iran. Silly mascots. Does anyone have an explanation for the little mark in the center? An explanation not involving anatomy, that is. The little mark in the center is the final curve of the second “2” in “2012.” Yes, I know the other “2” doesn’t have one. They obviously felt the need to make the second “2” … um… “two-ier.” ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994/90 "2011-03-10T07:40:47Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > What if someone saw Mohammed’s face in a slice of prosciutto? Would you say that wasn’t there? Or would you just issue a fatwa on the prosciutto and be done with it? Mmmm, prosciutto. Who the heck stares at their prosciutto instead of inhaling it posthaste? > [@foolsguinea](#): > > I must be a sap, because the Wenlock & Mandeville origin video at [this link](http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/London-unveils-creepy-looking-mascots-for-2012-O?urn=oly-242206) got e tearing up a little.I think you mean ZIOR. Or ZIO’2, maybe. Isn’t that an IRS form? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-london-olympic-logo-racist/572994.md?page=4)