Posted on 03/17/2018 2:22:56 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
The Chinese people were literally dehumanized (or murdered by the millions) under Maoist dicatorship and today’s China has failed to adequately confront and repent of its past...hence all the ghosts from that past re-emerging in full force in the 21st Century, amidst material splendor this time...Xi Jinping removed term limits as of two weeks ago. He is set to rule for life.
You hold it against him because he didn’t want to marry an American feminist?
The ones that failed the intelligence test are the Americans that hired him and bought him a visa.
No, they’re just people who lived for years in rural backwaters and then got moved into cities where they can’t even figure out the minimal standards of public conduct.
How does China’s repression compare to our “ally”, Saudi Arabia’s?
This is a country which has traditionally had a "one child" policy - do you know how many women alone bear the scars of abortion? Often forced?
Look, I have only lived in the former Soviet Union (Russia)- and spent time in South Korea also. Traumas can linger for generations. Especially when they go un-addressed. And these places BRIMM with post traumatic stress: from war, from political abuse, etc...it's not just poverty.
If we used poor social credit here as a standard, I couldn’t buy a Snickers LOL
Oops. Sorry when I said “Look” I meant that I hadn’t been to China but other places with similar historical backdrops. Don’t mean for tone to sound harsh. Sorry.
Freedom is precious.
And your friend didn’t mention that even rich, sophisticated businessmen in debt fall under bad “social credit” category...not just mentally ill rural people. (Who sadly need help, which is why any crackdown on Christianity is so terrible.)
Traumas last several generations. I saw that in the southeastern USA during the 1960’s over the Civil War of the 1860’s.
That table is from Rummel's book, 'Death by Government'.
An excellent, and depressing, read. All those useful idiots advocating for banning private gun ownership should be required to read this book - and then decide if they really want to put all of their trust in the Government.
Reading the Bible would be better ('the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked' - and we are to Trust only in God), but that requires a heart to receive the Truth. Rummel's book just states the cold facts about the brutal actions of many Governments in the 20th Century (through the 1970s -- it left out a lot of the butcheries from 1980 to 1999) - and would provide a useful frame of reference, and education, for these 'kids' walking out of their classrooms.
Indeed. Post war Germany is not perfect but did go through a process after Holocaust drama...to repent, punish/try leaders at Nuremberg, make amends and reparations continue for Jewish families if I am not mistaken...
China skipped all that and is a superpower now. The pressure to “keep up” is I’m sure behind authoritarian measures like these taking on updates forms suited to the times.
LOL! You and me both!
Saul Alinsky, make them live by their own rules.
Maintain a Social Credit Score database for liberals.
If they use the word “hate crime”, demote their score and electronically turn their home heat down 5 degrees.
Hey, it’s a start.
Interesting list, but where is Laos? 1 million dead in the “Killing Fields”
The very phrase “Social Credit” must be making their eyes light with inspiration.
Oops i forgot to mention failure of Civil War reconstruction. If Lincoln hadnt died...who knows what would have been in the South.
The muzzies also better watch out.
Very true. Secular social engineering. Marxist-Leninist values at their finest in our own nation’s universities.
Very true. Secular social engineering. Marxist-Leninist values at their finest in our own nation’s universities.
Very true. Secular social engineering. Marxist-Leninist values at their finest in our own nation’s universities.
>>Public urination and defecation were the norm, and people would blow their noses regularly even though they had no tissues or handkerchiefs.<<
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Were you in Sanfranfreekshow lately?
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