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Thursday, 28 August 2008

Now that the Olympics are over can we please all wake up from the "China is So Amazing!" dream?

Seriously folks. First of all, thank God there is at least one journalist who hasn't hopped on the "China is so amazing!" train.

Yes, remember human rights violations?

Remember the Tiananmen Square massacre? I do.

Remember the little old ladies sentenced to hard labor? The lack of freedom of speech or the press? Google conspiring with the Chinese government to change facts?

I mean Jesus Christ, wake up everyone. What the fuck do you think is going on here? I'm sure there are very nice people in China and that the NBC reporters enjoyed going on their little human interest trips to visit various people in small villages with amazing stories, etc. But if we actually care about these wonderful people we're introduced to in these little side stories, then we should care that they live in a country with an incredibly repressive government which wields total control over their lives.

Do we all need a lesson in the whole "We have lots of freedoms we take for granted in this country" vein? (Don't worry, the Bush administration will continue to chip away at those for as long as possible.)

Honestly, I find the blind eye most of the press turned to pretty much everything China does very disturbing. It's their job to tell the truth. Even if nobody wants to hear it. (But I guarantee, there are always some people who do, by the way.)

Posted: Aug 28, 2008 10:55

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