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That's not racist actually. Of course the word's meaning has completely disappeared into the vast abyss of politically correct stupidity.
Free speech does not exist outside the USA, which always is a surprise to Americans who have never lived anywhere but here.

yes lets flood a nation with foreign nationals who 1) have no respect for the country 2) work off the books at lower rates 3) turn living standards into utter shit for about 98% of the country.

then let's make it illegal to comment or even JOKE about it.

Greeks have extremely high unemployment rate, wth are Africans doing there?

Obligatory:

She can eat crackers in my bed anytime.

Call me cracker!

MoneySheep says

with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitos will be eating food from their own home."

Yeah, this does not sound like racism, but rather one athlete talking shit about others. Not sure what the point it, but it sounds far more like a nationalist taunt than a racial comment like "at least all the sheep will feel loved now that the Scotts are here". Perhaps tasteless, but hardly racist.

And don't athletes commonly taunt their opponents? If the NY Mets said the Detroit Tigers smelled bad, would that be racist just because Detroit has a large black population? I don't think so.

The Olympic committee looks like it's just being politically correct. It's trying to avoid a controversy and is willing to brush aside an athlete to do so.

zzyzzx says

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Yep, she is hot.

not racist, until it involves a non-negro speaking about a negro.

I bet the africans would still bang her.

For some reason, we assume that the athletes are better than this. That they would hold some personal feelings back rather than to make a comment that can be construed as racist. The amount of time, money & energy that is poured into oly athletes should be considered before they post something that stupid in social media.

I can see where some might feel that the comment was racist.

elliemae says

I can see where some might feel that the comment was racist.

True, but the only way to construed it as racist is to assume that the very word African is racist, but it's not. The thing is, the comment doesn't actually say anything derogatory. It actually doesn't say anything at all -- like most tweets -- other than there are mosquitoes in Africa and that humans are food to mosquitoes. Both statements are true, but not particularly relevant to anything.

It's like she was trying to make a joke, but there was no punchline to it. Then again, maybe it's funnier in Greek.

oh, and she is not bad, but not my type.