clonkrieger
Imperium Forces Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.06.17 04:08:00 -
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Edited by: clonkrieger on 17/06/2008 04:08:42
Originally by: Bartholomeus Crane So what you're basically saying is that by calling it a policy, it's all right to restrict people's freedom of expression. Well, I have some news for you, it doesn't work like that in the western society. I don't need to have cups of tea with the local oppressors to criticise my government. If I want my say I can go out, start a rally, and protest to anything I feel fit. It is my unalienable right as a citizen of a free country to do so, and this right is enshrined within the constitution unalterable by any means. We've seen what happens to people who do that in communist China.
Please don't give me that 'you don't understand China' spiel, it doesn't fly. You wrongly assume a lack of knowledge on my part. What you're basically saying is that if one keeps his mouth shut and put up, the unelected government of China will allow their citizenry the possibility to earn their wage and have a family (within limits BTW). As old a culture as China undoubtedly has, constitutional government based on free elections and freedom of expression has been around for quite some while in western society. All carved out steps in mountainsides notwithstanding, perhaps China would do well to catch up?
Chinese players of EVE are on a separate server because the Chinese government has decided, either in law or in policy, that their citizenry should not be exposed to western thought or argument, preferring instead to feed them their version of events and information, without possibility to recourse or argument.
I don't know what was in your ricebowl today, but I do know this: The Tibetan government may not be ideal or even democratic, but it was their own. Currently they have their internationally acknowledged head of state in exile while Chinese tanks and guns drive through the streets of Lhasa, either incarcerating or outright killing those who disagree to the Chinese invasion forces. Not to mention total repression of their own religion. These are indisputable facts. China did invade a sovereign country, and China does currently oppress the Tibetans. Facts! I personally fail to see how China telling anyone that they did that for their own good has any bearing on anything. I was wrong, it is wrong, and no matter how much Chinese propaganda you want to reiterate, it will always be wrong.
Perhaps you'd do well to remember that you're currently not talking to Chinese of the 'put up and shut up' mentality, but to free citizens with open access to a variety of news and information services not restrained by government interference. Being branded a dissident where I live if worn as a badge of honour, not a one-way ticket to a hard labour camp.
No idea what country you are from... but I'd love to see you go out and rally about things like immigrantion and race in the US or UK and I bet you any money you will find yourself locked up :P Chinese government is not as harsh as western people are taught. And its no different on how oppressive the US & UK governments were in the past, and even of today. You make me laugh, but ohwell. If you live in the EU, then well, ahahaha, wont be long until the EU is anti-democratic, and so am I *I hate the EU*. ___________________________ Returned after being absent. Updating... |