[KineJapan] Kawase Watch

[Frederick Veith]

Kawase ventriloquizing for athletes, who are specifically and contractually
enjoined from political expression, in a manner which magically aligns with
the interests of her patrons is…

I’m going to go back to biting my tongue on all of this.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:00 PM Bryan Hartzheim via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

>
> In Kawase's defense, she's spent a lot of time with these athletes and I
> get the sense she wants to advocate for them. Focusing on their struggles
> and achievements was probably a relatively "safe" approach to making a doc
> about the Olympics, but the politics of that decision are now magnified
> with the public opposing them in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. She's
> essentially aligned herself with ministers who say they're proceeding with
> the games because "they believe in the power of sports."
>
> Bryan
>
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