The Tibetan rioters went to the street, setting shops
(specifically targeting shops owned by Han people) on fire, hacking
people with axes and generally wrecking other havoc they are
capable of. Yet, these people are portrayed as peace-loving,
suppressed victims by Western media? Well, I am not surprised.
Western media has been habouring an admirable amount of bias
towards China for a long time, even at the cost of twisting facts.
Yet, they think they have the moral high ground to accuse China of
spreading propaganda. I guess they do not know that they live in
glass houses themselves.
Western countries colonized most parts of the world, stealing
land from natives (USA, Australia...) and inflicting
great atrocities in the process. Now they think they have
the moral high ground to lecture us on Tibet? Let's set aside
whether Tibet should belong to China for the moment. If one's
argument is that invasion in itself, regardless of its consequences
(good or bad), is unjustified and must be reversed, then naturally
white American and Australians must get out of USA and Australia
and go back to Europe. After they have retreated from those lands,
we could discuss Tibet. Otherwise, please kindly back
off.
If one accuses me of diverting attention from the issue, then I
must ask this simple question: If white Americans are living in a
land they illegally stole from native Indians and Han Chinese are
living in a land they illegally took from the Tibetans, why does
one point fingers at the Chinese but not Americans if the
wrong-doing is the same? I am not trying to justify Chinese
occupation of Tibet, but singling out one country and ignoring
another speaks volumes about one's neutrality, or the lack
thereof.
And... it is America that IS throwing its weight around the
world, invading other sovereign nations and causing all sorts of
friction and animosity. They self-righteously think that their
ideology is superior to others and thus
they aggressively export and impose their systems on
other countries. Those who resist this ideological assimilation are
punished one way or the other. And why is someone accusing China of
chauvinism instead?
ah ... no "red haired barbarians and wannabe whites" in your
post this time ? ...
okie .... first, since you love pointing out the fact that there
were tibetan rioters hacking and killing HAN chinese ... may i ask
if you've checked out the pictures of dead tibetans on the link I
posted ? ... going to say they were rioters who were killed next ?
... one of the reasons why many people tended NOT to believe in the
official chinese version of the current troubles, because past
experience doesn't lead us to do so ... Remember the SARS crisis ?
... when the official media and chinese authorities first attempted
to cover up and hide the true extent of the epidemic, before people
overseas started dying and it blew everything wide open ? ... even
the whistle blowing doctor was taken into custody, for telling the
.... truth ?
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/10/china8794.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Yanyong
and again, when other incidents happen, like the recent spate of
lead paint in dolls and food stuff scares, while it may be tempting
to say that it's an attempt to smear China, the fact remains that
even the maling brand of pork and luncheon meat products was
quietly banned for a while in Singapore by the local authorities
(nevermind the slim 10 pills and walnut sex pills and what not,
those were quack meds) .... I cannot tell you how disappointed (and
betrayed perhaps) I felt when I couldn't find my beloved pork
trotter cans at the supermarkets .... so regardless of how
indignant China gets, insisting there is no issues and everything
is a fabrication, people will take a look at the ban and quietly
modify their own consumption habits ....
and in a similar sense, when people read about the tibetan
incident, and read about the official chinese version, replete with
indignant rhetoric quite redolent of the 60's revolutionary
languages, people will remember the crushing of the students at
Tiananmen square by tanks .... now if the chinese were capable of
such cruelty to their own people .... then I guess you can imagine
how people outside of China would connect the dots .......
" I am not trying to justify
Chinese occupation of Tibet, but singling out one country and
ignoring another speaks volumes about one's neutrality, or the lack
thereof. "
sigh ... I have been through this frustrating point 15 times
now, I shall type out everything yet again just for you .... first,
read this thread's topic title ... it says free tibet, not free
Iraq, free palestine, or, like what our dear friend here would
like, free lakota ...
I would like to ask you, if a criminal was caught in the act of
murdering someone, would it be an admissible defense for him to
claim in court " Hey ! ... tis unfair ! .. why me ? ... why single
me out ? ... if you want to charge me with this crime, you must
first indict and charge every other murderer ! ... if not, this is
unfair treatment ! " ... even if it is indeed blantantly unfair in
your books ... do you think it absolves the fellow of his crime ?
.... makes him any less guilty ? ....
secondly, yet again, I would like to ask you, why are you
comparing your own country to one which is of such unsavory repute
to you ? ... comparing China to other "imperialist powers" as
you've put them as ... is it a tacit admissible of similar behavior
as those "imperialist powers", to ignore what I've previously said
about "learning from the good, and not the bad" ... if you
acknowledge that what the whites did to the natives in Australia,
the US, and across the new world was bad, why are you trying to
justify China's action by comparing the occupation Tibet with these
countries ....
China too, had suffered invasions and occupations in her past,
including most recently, under the japanese (which the Chinese
goverment and people would never let anyone forget) .... one would
thought that having suffered foreign occupation herself, she
wouldn't want to impose it on another .... but no ! ... now, you
think it's fair to say "tibet now belongs to China, it's a fact and
will never be reversed, so forget and get over it already !?!? ....
double standards ? ... chauvinism ? ... I think it's starting to
smell like fascism ....
and just on the record ... I would like to ask you for your
views on the sovereignty and ownership issues of the spratley
islands ... who do you think owns these islands ? ...
