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Originally posted by finboy: That's nothing new -- communists have been sponsoring war protests in this country since the 1930s. If you've ever seen a Chinese-govt. sanctioned "protest" you'd probably feel differently about this. I've been to several here in the US. The one common thing is the government official with the camera, taking pictures of who's there and who isn't and the five or six other govt. officials taking notes on who's being the most patriotic. The citizens who show up do so for the same reasons that Iraqis cheered Saddam Hussein during parades. |
You've seen "Chinese-govt.-sanctioned" demonstrations in the US - which is interesting if true - where people show up because they'll be shot if they don't?
And the "100 or so students" (quoth Mastrap) who showed up in Beijing? They all showed up because they'd be shot or tortured if not? What about the 1.2 billion that weren't there?
It's nice to see that your standard response, triggered by the words "China" and "state-sanctioned" is the same, regardless of whether it actually applies or not.
You know that's just how "prejudice" is defined, right?
-s*