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"China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province, but many Taiwanese people disagree and want a separate nation."

• blueflow 5y ago
  If China got both gold and silver medal in badminton, what are the Chinese nationalists complaining about?
  • bArray 5y ago
    This is exactly the doublethink that George Orwell was warning of in Nineteen Eighty-Four [1]. When you accept that an ideology (Communism) is perfect, then any contradiction found must be in your mind and not in the ideology itself. What's really concerning is how easily this has infected Western democracies too. In the UK I am reminded of the Parkfield School Muslim-LGBT disagreement, where people knew there was a problem, they were just unable to formulate what it was [2]. An even better example was the 'Islam is right about women' poster - everybody agreed it was a 'hate crime', but nobody was able to explain why [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink [2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8635881/school-stops-lgbt-teacher-muslim-parents-protest/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8635881/school-stops-lgbt-teac... [3] https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-islam-is-right-about-women-stunt/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-i...
    • lumberingjack 5y ago
      I was just thinking about the Democratic party that left me behind with no one to vote for because they turned so violently left that no one thinks anything else is the right path. It's an ideology that the world can be a perfect place without murder or crime and that's not obtainable at all.
• greatgib 5y ago
  The journalist is clearly a ball sucker... Taiwanese does not "disagree". They are a clear other separated country.