Posted on 04/16/2008 5:25:02 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--As international attention on the situation between Tibet and China has increased over the past few weeks while China prepares for the Olympics, a Cornell anthropology professor was the subject of personal attacks posted to two University listservs last week in response to a film screening and discussion she organized on “the prospects for peace in Tibet.”
After Prof. Kathryn March, anthropology, began publicizing the event several weeks ago, it immediately provoked a wave of impassioned e-mail responses, most of which criticized the event. A handful of the responses on the listservs were personally directed at March.
“I … was told to ‘go die’ on the Chinese Students and Scholars Association listserv,” March said at the opening of her event last Thursday, “[I] received personal emails saying things like ‘I spit on you’ or telling me that I needed ‘a brain spa’ where I could get ‘botox [for my] brain and age,’ advice that another e-mailer applauded by writing ‘well said! support!’”
This incident comes as the Olympic torch, on its way to the Beijing Olympics this August, has been greeted by demonstrations and protests around the world. The emotional protests on both sides intensified last week on campuses across the country.
Duke’s student newspaper, The Chronicle, reported Monday that a student who expressed herself at a pro-Tibet protest was the victim of harassing phone calls and e-mails and had her personal information posted on the Duke Chinese Scholars and Students Association website.
March said that while she did not feel personally threatened by the messages, it reminded her of how deeply people feel about these issues.
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I’m sure Cornell will unite stolidly behind the good Professor and fight off these attacks on free speech with all the passion and fire they normally employ against anything having to do with the Republican party.
You know, pointing out the virtually bottomless double standards of the left, would have a whole lot more meaning - if Republicans actually had the stones to take a stand on ANYTHING anymore.
They don’t.
So whatever liberals do, they get away with.
Arrogant Chinaman interlopers, they are on our Campuses and feel really cocky, usually the other thing out of their lying, backward mouths is how much of our debt they own. They are educated on talking points and are as fanatical as the little men that marched into the ice (Long March)with no shoes on.They are here to scam us, learn our secrets,tip our strippers, and to get a real education in sciences that they can’t even ape in their own godless wasteland country. I think in about 5 years they will have as much influence on the campus as the Muslim Caliphate Death Worshipers.
The little Manchus ought to be sent back to their overcrowded, filthy, poisoned , girl baby less cities to eat their rice with their fingers and squat .
I think if one of these Chinaman said something to me like that.......he’d be pi$$in’ a Yellow River.
Am I the only person who remembers when there was a Debt Bomb and everyone was cringing at what would happen to the USA if all our debtors in South America and other places were to default on what they owed?
Now, we do not really have a Debt Bomb, AFAIK. We have foreigners who have purchased US treasuries that bear interest and have a specific due date. They can be bought and sold, and while there are scarce buyers, they aren't the same as a loan that will never be paid.
Why doesn't anyone simply tell these jerks that if they wish to sell off all their US government investment vehicles at a loss to themselves in order to control our foreign policy, the economic result means that we (and others in the global economy) will also simply not be able to purchase the goods made in their countries and the factories owned by Americans and other Westerners in China will close and they will be out the US$/jobs/growth upon which they have grown fat and arrogant?
So, precipitously selling US investments will hurt the US. It will also hurt the sellers and the entire global economy. Perhaps I am ignorant, but isn't this sort of an economic MAD?
Also, isn't Tibet a cause near and dear to the liberal leftist elite? The ones I know were demonstrating against China's occupation and for the Dalai Lama for over a decade. I have read recently that boycotting Chinese goods has become a liberal cause.
Are heads exploding, yet? How many conflicting attitudes can anyone simultaneously hold before they implode?
Either he lacks the wit to understand that the ruling Chinese oligarchy is the quintessence of Marxism, or he harbors some heretofore unrevealed admiration for the Chinese regime that has crushed Tibet.
The Dalai Lama is also against any kind of boycott of the Olympics.
But I am still for a free Tibet.
“the factories owned by Americans and other Westerners in China will close ...”
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Close? Why in the world, would they close?
Americans and other Westerners do not “own” anything in China.
China will operate its factories - which it owns, whether foreigners participate or not.
We have GIVEN AWAY our factories.
China owns them now.
“Attn: Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive”
Well well. Looks like Bill Clinton’s China sugar daddy firm is at work here. They are the ones that ID anyone protesting the Chicoms and then turn the names in to Beijing.
I think Bubba has some explaining to do on his campus tours.
Thanks for your open-minded opinion /sarc. As an American of Chinese descent I take offense at your comments. Most of these students are taught the party line pretty early on so if any of them want a job when they get back to China, they pretty much have to parrot the party line. In addition, they live a pretty insular life in or near campus. A lot of that has to do with poor communication skills. My cousin from China was like this until I introduced him to more native-born Americans.
Chinese students, whether from Taiwan, Hong Kong or China, in the past reflected an inferiority complex due to their country’s 20th Century history as a poor and destitute nation with a great past. However, one can’t live on past glories (just ask a Notre Dame fan like me). Now that China has become an economic powerhouse they’re reflecting a nationalism that has been brainwashed into them. My cousin, as my other relatives from Hong Kong and Taiwan, couldn’t care less about holding on to Tibet because he learned so much after living in the US for 15 years. He even met Tibetan ex-pats here who gave him a sense of their lives under Communist rule.
There is a fear that Chinese students will take back what they learned and use it to the detriment of the US. If the Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Japanese students are any guide, it’s more likely the US-educated folks will be ostracised by their would-be bosses.
Two factions are vying for control of China. One is reform-minded and more open (a lot of the Western-educated fall into this category), while the other is aligned with the PLA and the old guard in the Communist Party.
Finally, you will find that many, if not most, of the Chinese student organizations may boast they represent a lot of Chinese students but their memberships do not reflect that.
What good is a factory if no one can buy your products?
I have read postings here from folks who travel to China on business, about entire towns full of shoe factories (for example) that were closed/empty. I believe the context was over supply of production, but it would be the same with no customers. Those factories would close if the buyers of their products were reduced.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American+made+shoes&btnG=Google+Search
Indeed! If you check out the posts #1/#2 link City of Evil bump: You'll see that Ithaca (the home for the professor under attack by our 'honored Chinese guest students') also boasts the North American home base for the Dalai Lama.
I personally believe you are also correct in your analysis of the economic MAD policy these little pukes advocate.
Finally, I'll observe they are perfectly willing to terrorize 'their own', as you can see in this FR thread about a Duke University Chinese student being attacked for speaking out on Tibet.
We have had an INORDINATE number of Chinese spies. Its our fault because we have been politically correct.
The utter contempt I feel for anyone who has the opportunity to come to this country and then abuse Americans,regardless of their race, is limitless.
Could these cretins tolerate a black or white or hispanic exchange student threatening THEIR Chinese teachers. Rhetorical question isn’t It? Enter from stage left, Chinese Police politely knocking down the dorm room door in their white gloves.Again, what utter and contemptible arrogance to practice upon their hosts.But then again, how many thousands of “Proud Chinese” showed up at the Tibet/China/Torch event to shout down and wave PRC flags in everyones face? Tibet is only an issue for me, because it shows the real face of China. I would expect the native born “Chinese” to wave American flags, not Chinese Communist Flags. Should I expect otherwise? Why? Which country are they citizens of ? I would expect the students to stay the hell in their dorms.
I have gotten into many debates with Proud Chinese(PRC agents) on other sites.
Their first shots are ALWAYS about race, the superiority of the Chinese and all things that they say are considered EVIL thought speech is this country if expressed in a viewpoint by anyone not Asian.
I don’t buy the idea that they are going to ostracized if when return. They will be asked when they enter customs do they have any new technology from America?
They will take back, because of our own stupidity , technology, and new tools, courtesy of our left, for use in their ongoing propaganda war.
The Irish love being Irish for sure, but Ireland is not killing all of its baby girls, killing for profit(organ harvesting), poisoning our food and drugs(heparin) practicing genocide of the Tibetans or the Uighurs (again like Tibet, a black eye)
, and building up a Navy , Army and Nuclear force to meet the United States on the field of battle. I excuse the students nothing, and expect for them to be “good citizens” of Their country. A polite guest as they would want us to be with a Revolutionary guard standing off in the corner.
Tienanmen Square is 20 years ago, those that stood up got killed or worse.China is just bidding its time to “square” things with the rest of us.
In the words of Ed McMahon,”YOU ARE CORRECT SIR”!
Oh I suppose I am too, but why bother, inasmuch as Tibet's spiritual leader has given his de facto approval to the tyranical regime that has annexed it to China?
Freedom and Marxism are mutually exclusive.
The Chinese oligarchy is what Marxism is. Obviously the Dalai Lama approves that--he has said so--so I intend to place my support and interests elsewhere.
I don't fight lost causes, and I have no interest in saving fools from themselves, which is, in itself, a lost cause.
The Free Tibet sticker is coming off my car. And I will no longer patronize those Tibet shops.
Our visa system is still like swiss cheese all these years after 911. A very large percentage of Chinese students in this country are registered agents of the PRC who obviously feel free to practice the thuggery promoted by the Hu Jintao clique in Beijing.
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