Chinese Olympics torch protests
I absolutely support the torch protests, not only because of China's occupation of Tibet, but for more continuing human rights violations that I can list here.
The funny thing though is, that China has occupied Tibet for 50 years; people are acting like this is something "new". Just where have they been?
There is another upside as well - it's wonderful for a change to see people worldwide protesting a real human-rights abuser, not the United States or some European country that offended Islam. And that is a good change. But not surprisingly, that's too much for one of the moonbat writers at Balloon Juice who wishes people would hurry up and focus back on USA bashing again (the comments are even worse).
8 comments:
Have you been to china, Tibet, or else you have a passion on? If you have never been to that part of the world before, you need to second guess your judgement. Just as that you should have second guessed the "reason" to start the war on Iraq.
I have visited China, although only briefly - but it has been a passion of mine for many, many years.
Keep in mind that when you are dealing with closed societies, you can safely bet that any human rights violations that you hear about represent less than 10% of the actual total.
John,
in the comments section to a different post (don't ask me which it was) you criticized people for vacationing in Cuba because Cuba is a nation which violates human rights (if I remember correctly). If you visited China, isn't that in violation of the moral principle (or whatever you want to call it) that you advocated?
LOL - good point lemmuslemmus. Well, I actually went to Hong Kong, and at that time it was still owned by the British.
In any case, Cuba was another level entirely - a Castro dictatorship for 50 years. China has progressed a bit further than that. China also doesn't desperately depend on its tourism revenue the way Cuba does either.
Why "LOL"?
China is a developing country. It
can't be compared with USA in many aspects.You should not judge it in
a USA way.In fact, USA people
don't know Chinese as much as Chinese people know USA.Even if
you had been to Hongkong,It dosen't mean that you know
the history ,status in quo, and culture of China. Study Chinese,
talk with them,browsing the Chinese webside to see what those
people "without human rights" say
and think.
To Lemmuslemmus: I laughed because on reflection, visiting Hong Kong is admittedly a pretty weak claim to say I visited China.
To anonymous: It doesn't matter what culture you come from - there is something wrong with a state if it has to censor its own media and Internet so heavily.
I've quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2008/04/re-chinese-olympics-torch-protests.html
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