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They're expressive metaphorical cartoons from a critic of the CPC regime. Everyone knows Chinese athletes themselves aren't committing atrocities during the gam
by gojomo 5y ago
They're expressive metaphorical cartoons from a critic of the CPC regime. Everyone knows Chinese athletes themselves aren't committing atrocities during the games.
On the other hand, an actual Chinese state official tweeted a photorealistic fake image of an Australian soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child.
https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1333214766806888448 https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1333214766806888448
Which is more graphic, & more likely to engender hate?
- pphysch 5y agoHow are these remotely similar? The Chinese comic is symbolizing the actual war crimes of actual Australian soldiers against actual Afghan children. For which no one was held accountable IIRC. Olympic athletes are not committing war crimes or violence as suggested by the agitprop posters.
- gojomo 5y agoYou'd have to have a childlike naivete about figurative-cartoon communication to believe those cartoons "suggest" athletes, in their sportwear, are committing atrocities in Olympic-event-like tableaus. Perhaps living under a censorious regime creates such gullibility, & obliviousness to metaphor & sarcasm? (Separately: prosecutions of the Australian soldiers involved in the incidents Mr. Zhao "symbolized" are still possible – but as far as I can tell, none of the incidents involved the slitting of children's throats, as in his graphic photorealistic rendering.)
- pphysch 5y ago> Perhaps living under a censorious regime creates such gullibility, & obliviousness to metaphor & sarcasm? Such is life here in America...
- explodingman 5y agoNot sure if that is a troll or not. CCP policy and behaviour towards Xinjiang shows a clear intent to eradicate Uighur culture, possibly the Uighur people, on the part of the CCP state. Simlilarly for Hong Kong, Tibet. A warcrime by an Australian soldier is being dealt with as a matter of military discipline. There is no equivalency between the two. Pretending that a crime is equivalent to state genocide is classic "wolf warrior" trolling. A better equivalency would be between what's happening with the Uighurs and what happened to Australia's first nation people in the nineteenth century. Modern China does have more than a little in common with those old European colonial empires.
- pphysch 5y agoUyghurs are the top ethnicity in Xinjiang and their population is increasing faster than any other, so I have no clue what you are going on about.
- gojomo 5y agoDo you have a reliable source to support that assertion? Can we go there and freely discuss the situation with residents, without minders nearby? Can they freely practice their relgion? Can they leave? Can they choose not to have regime loyalists stay in their homes? (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/30/uninvited-guests-keep-watch-for-china-inside-uighur-homes https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/30/uninvited-guests-k...)
- pphysch 5y agoYes
- gojomo 5y agoI think if that were true you'd have supplied reliable sources documenting it. Escapees report differently, & fear retaliation against their remaining family: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/04/uyghur-women-china-xinjiang/618531/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/04/uy...
- pphysch 5y agoMelissa Chan is a Gordon Chang-level troll. Not a journalist. Wire me $1000 and I'll produce video testimony of an Asian-looking person alleging literally any atrocity you want by China/Russia/Iran. Unverifiable testimony not made under oath and grainy Google Earth screenshots are simply not reliable evidence in the current year. As for actual evidence, PRC publishes their census data online for everyone to see. If you don't believe that, you can look up "Ürümqi street" on YouTube and get a ballpark figure for how many Turkic people and cultures are represented there. If you still think there is Holocaust 2.0 going on in Xinjiang, you are ideologically poisoned beyond reason.
- explodingman 5y ago> For which no one was held accountable IIRC. If you're used to a system in which the courts assume the prosecutor is always right and so the judge's only task is to decide the sentence, then a trial with rules of evidence, burden of proof, etc., will seem very slow.