China is teh evil, OMFG!111!@

[Timexwatch]

Why do people post so much about America's flaws where there are so many flaws in other countries?

Why is the sky blue?

Will this circle jerk over China ever end?

[DaShi]

I have to say, my opinion of Che has dropped dramatically today. Yes, he's posted some crazy things in the past, but now he's beginning to sound like a left-wing loony out of touch with reality. I'm sorry, if I sound insulting Che. I do like you, but I can't deny what I see. Your becoming the left-wing version of what you claim to despise. I've been seeing a lot of this among lefties after Bush's reelection. Come back to the light Che. You can still support socialist ideals without dividing everything into black and white and us and them.

[GePap]

I have no problem with criticism of the Chinese government's political repression. Their support for dictatorial regimes is immoral, but sadly in that respect China is purely normal.

The only thing that gets my goat is when everything in China is assume to be some centrally planned evil, as opposed to the everyday banality of evil.

For example, the chicken virus thread- I can easily see that happening in Latin America also: people with vested economic interests who could not give a rats ass about some theoritical concept such as "the public good". Hey, they don;t think they'll get sick from their behavior (otherwise they would not do it), why assume anyone else will?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
Why do people post so much about America's flaws where there are so many flaws in other countries?

Why is the sky blue?

Will this circle jerk over China ever end?

I think China has become a fad over the actions of a certain moderator and an easily trolled poster.

I enjoy discussing China. I think its interesting. There's a lot of good and bad here, and it makes for fascinating discussion.

[Lancer]

My opinion of che isn't overly based on the stuff he posts. He's a fixture, part of this funny farm... Interesting guy and one of the many good reasons to keep coming back.

[boann]

i made a thread about the congo.
and one about women slavery in europe.
im very passionate about whats happening to
women and children anywhere. starvation..
poverty. abuse.

what have i got against china..
i am against their population policy.
makes their whole population gender nazi's

[chequita guevara]

In case you hadn't noticed, DaShi, there were two anti-China threads on the front page today. You made an anti-China post for no reason in an unrelated thread, and there are half a dozen, plus, Chinese flag monsters as avatars. Are you seriously trying to make the case there isn't a lot of Chinese bashing going on?

Timexwatch, we biitch about our own countries because they are our own countries, and ones, presumably, upon which we have some impact. We also have a right to be offended by what is done in our name and with our resources and demand change.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by GePap
I have no problem with criticism of the Chinese government's political repression. Their support for dictatorial regimes is immoral, but sadly in that respect China is purely normal.

The only thing that gets my goat is when everything in China is assume to be some centrally planned evil, as opposed to the everyday banality of evil.

For example, the chicken virus thread- I can easily see that happening in Latin America also: people with vested economic interests who could not give a rats ass about some theoritical concept such as "the public good". Hey, they don;t think they'll get sick from their behavior (otherwise they would not do it), why assume anyone else will?

Yes, but it's the nature of this forum to post things with a slightly sensational edge.

However, Chinese culture is very different from that of the west. I think a lot of the arguments come from one side who has seen this and is shocked by it, and the other who refuses to believe it and thinks it's an attack against China.

[GePap]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
In case you hadn't noticed, DaShi, there were two anti-China threads on the front page today. You made an anti-China post for no reason in an unrelated thread, and there are half a dozen, plus, Chinese flag monsters as avatars. Are you seriously trying to make the case there isn't a lot of Chinese bashing going on?

Those "flag monsters" are one of the coolest looking avatar I have seen.

God bless the

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by boann
what have i got against china..
i am against their population policy.
makes their whole population gender nazi's

It's the culture that makes them gender Nazis. Even without the one-child policy, they'd be doing the same thing, only having multiple boys, instead of just one.

[Asher]

You made an anti-China post for no reason in an unrelated thread, and there are half a dozen, plus, Chinese flag monsters as avatars.

They're not about China, but a person who takes Chinese policies and applies them to Apolyton.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DaShi
However, Chinese culture is very different from that of the west. I think a lot of the arguments come from one side who has seen this and is shocked by it, and the other who refuses to believe it and thinks it's an attack against China.

I'm not shocked by Chinese culture. In many ways, it's too alien to shock me. I do think China is fascinating to discuss, but lately all I've seen is teh eveil China threads.

[GePap]

Originally posted by DaShi


Yes, but it's the nature of this forum to post things with a slightly sensational edge.

However, Chinese culture is very different from that of the west. I think a lot of the arguments come from one side who has seen this and is shocked by it, and the other who refuses to believe it and thinks it's an attack against China.

So what if the culture is different?

Culture is, for one thing, variable. Second, culture does not really totally rule people's lives and it has even less to do with governing.

As I said, I dislike when personal and local greed, incompetence is supposed to exemplify the entire country and 1.3 billion people. I am sure there are people in the Chinese ministry of health aghast at what is going on-they represent China just as much as the people acting ignorantly.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Asher

They're not about China, but a person who takes Chinese MarkG's and DanQ's policies and applies them to Apolyton.

When he banned you, you deserved it.

[Kuciwalker]

You're clueless, che.