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Lol. I happen to also have a holy book that legitimises my right to seize your backyard. You see, my ancestors found spiritual enlightenment in that place 4000 years ago..... Let's stop being naive. Force rules. Questions of legitimacy and sovereignty are irrelevant. Although I do tend to side...

I can appreciate that you as an individual genuinely care about human rights. However, it bugs me to see so many people use it as a guise to advance their own political agendas and project their moral egos elsewhere on the world, while pretending they themselves are angels...

In turn, does that nullify the human right abuses of the USA? Isn't moral absolutism the basis of the Western 'humanitarian' agenda? Seriously, do you condone Guantanamo? If you did, it wouldn't suprise me. It's understandable, after all, that it is within the self-interest of the West's War on...

You are quite sad. An attack on press freedom in relation to the Chinese government shouldn't degenerate into an attack on the Chinese people and their culture. Get off your moral high horse, and take off your crusader costume to reveal the prejudiced being you really are. Stereotyping people...

Re: Boycott of Olympics Amen. This is the most sincere and profound view of what the Olympics should really be about I've heard in a long time.

Re: Boycott of Olympics I'm sorry, I'm just too cynical and brainwashed to believe that any humanitarian cause is without narcissitic strings attached. Perhaps I've lost my faith in humanity? *joke* Point about Africa: It's just that many FREE TIBET people chant it like it's some throwaway...

Re: Boycott of Olympics The West may have recognised the evils of colonialism. But that doesn't mean they have stopped doing it. What about the various US military bases stationed throughout the Pacific, in Guam, Japan, South Korea etc? The invasion of a sovereign nation - Iraq? Aren't these...

Re: Boycott of Olympics Not too bright? In what way? It's human nature to try and dominate. So don't you think it's a bit hypocritical for the West to lecture China on imperialism, given that it has done most of the colonising in human history? Slidey: ??? Elaborate, didn't really get what you...

Re: Boycott of Olympics Splitting hairs, I'm afraid. You didn't exactly address the main thread of her argument - the Chinese are a people who have every right to unify the nation, regardless of ethnic diversity. Do you think the 'peace-loving' Tibetans would have left China alone if...

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Re: Boycott of Olympics Again, 'true' communism is irrelevant to today's China. It's like some stereotype silver bullet you can fire out of your moral cannon to denigrate the Chinese people rather than the Chinese government. I didn't mention living standards nor superiority. Obviously, China...

I think it's more of the student culture of Australia. It has nothing to do with government, Aussie students are just generally too lazy.

Re: Boycott of Olympics Her point was fair and sincere, yet you deliberately try to misrepresent her. As I've said before, Mao's ideology is basically extinct in the capitalist economy of modern China. Not death to Falun Gong, it's just we don't like them practising some bullshit 'religion'...

Let's see you try. No matter how unpopular China gets, it doesn't need to hold itself to the same self-righteous moral posture of the West. The economy and trade has too much momentum for individuals like you to do any real damage through boycotts. Hahaha, you can't do anything, the greater...

Of course, both Western and Chinese viewpoints are skewed to favour one's own political interests, and moral ego. But your attempt to misrepresent Chinese viewpoints as totally brainwashed isn't very fair. The moral high ground is something the pretentious Western Media thinks it has, but...

Re: Boycott of Olympics Military considerations for Tibet - control of Indian subcontinent, resources, etc. Surely it's not unreasonable for a country to act in its own self-interest, given the point you raised about Israel keeping occupied land to enhance its own security?

Re: Boycott of Olympics As soon as you get out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and stop building settlements there, I'll get out of Tibet. Lol.

Re: Boycott of Olympics Yeah, that's quite true. It's the point I was trying to make originally - what the Chinese government is in practice rather than in name. Anyway, I think discussion about the Beijing Olympics has veered off course. Or has this thread showed its true colours - a...

Re: Boycott of Olympics I think she meant that the economy isn't communist anymore. The political and economic system I would describe China with is capitalist, authoritarian state - not some sort of 1980's Soviet agrarian state. I think it's pretty safe to say that wealth isn't just randomly...

Re: Boycott of Olympics My two cents: Sure, it's alright to hate the government of China, but do you have any right to deprive 1.3 billion 'oppressed' people of the right to hold the Olympics? Furthermore, what about those athletes who've trained for 4 years of their lives? Which country...