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Exactly. If you like this kind of "swift justice" you're going to love China, I guess. The comparison between Fox News and CCTV is ridiculous as well - Fox mig
by nir 15y ago
Exactly. If you like this kind of "swift justice" you're going to love China, I guess.
The comparison between Fox News and CCTV is ridiculous as well - Fox might suck, but it's not a government channel and is only one voice in a wide spectrum of US media.
It's one thing when you read this naive BS, from entitled middle class Westerners who never even met anyone who actually dealt with the harsh side of an authoritarian regime, in Reddit or HN. To see this in the NY Times is truly disappointing.
- xxbondsxx 15y agoI agree, this guy really hasn't seen the ugly side of China if he's writing like this. It's a scary goddamn place, and as much as everyone on Reddit/HN complains about the US, we're still lightyears ahead of China horror stories.
- gbog 15y agoWhat horror stories? Do you mean kids regularly gunning their schoolmates? oh, sorry, that's in the USA?
- zhemao 15y agoNo, horror stories like infants dying of tainted baby formula because farmers tried to increase the protein count of their milk (by lacing it with a known poison). Like a child dying from being run over twice by cars because nobody thought to pick him out of the street. Like parents abandoning or killing newborn girls because they wanted a boy. Like criminals enslaving young men to work at brick kilns. Every once in the while, there might be some lunatic gunman in the US (as there are in every other country). In China, there is a pervasive sense that human life is cheap.
- gbog 15y agoThe tragic occurrences you cite are not specific to China, even if some Chinese themselves seem to think so.
- angersock 15y agoNot tragic. Didn't happen to Americans. :) (See what I did there? Stop being so blindly nationalistic--admit that China has some pretty heinous issues re: food safety and consumer safety/confidence [fair or not])