Comments on: Boycotting the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

By: js

js — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:02:07 +0000

well ,boy, Let’s boycott it! lol!

By: maghero

maghero — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:57:19 +0000

To leesean:

You are such a poor and absurd guy!
You support FaLunGong?
wow…..
If that was true, I suggest you to introduce that Fucking EVIL CULT to your dear Taiwan.

Maybe you will see how they scramble your beautiful island in less than 3 years. ^_^

wish you good luck and a 白日飞升，hahaha

By: maghero

maghero — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:56:43 +0000

To leesean:

You are such a poor and absurd guy!
You support FaLunGong?
wow…..
If that was true, I suggest you to introduce that Fucking EVIL CULT to you dear Taiwan.

Maybe you will see how they scramble your beautiful island in less than 3 years. ^_^

wish you good luck and a 白日飞升，hahaha

By: hehehe

hehehe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:35:02 +0000

this is so narrow of the boycott. everything has two sides, this person only notice the bad side, right, the government does spend lots of money to deal with air, but what do you mean? you don’t want they do it? even just for a show? no matter what the perpuse is, it is good for people live there. does this eveil person wants the air getting worse? and let people there die of long cancer?

i don;t think chinese gocernment is the best in the world. and i think they have lots of problems, but this person only makes me think they want the government getting worse, and kill every one, and stop every changing, even positive ones, then they are waiting, and find a chance to replace the current government, then they can do the same thing too, maybe even worse. then it may be a true hell for chinese people, or maybe things can be better, but no one can be sure. and from his letter, i don;t think he is open and nice enough to change all those bad things, and keep the good stuff. advice is nice, but attitude is so important too. boycott won’t fix all the problems, and someway it will be worse. especially what he said in the letter, but lucky, so far, we know no one listen to this dog’s lie.

By: leesean

leesean — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:26:46 +0000

Notice that the SDP letter advocates boycotting the opening ceremonies (which is over, and no visiting world leader boycotted, so this is a moot point anyway). They don’t advocate for a boycotting of the actual sports part of the Olympics. Everything is political, there is nothing that is apolitical. The Olympics are not just about sports. They are about making money for corporate sponsors and for nationalist prestige.

Anonymous speech is a cherished and protected tradition in free societies. The SDP where just making a point, but their suggestion was share by other groups as well. Perhaps it is BECAUSE they fear for their own safety that they hide behind the wall of anonymity.

I’m not in favor of Falun Gong (or any religious group in particular), but no religion should be persecuted, even if their beliefs are false. They aren’t the only ones. Religious persecution of Christians, Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims is well-documented as well. If by “protecting people’s life,” you mean torture, then ok.

There are plenty of other sources out there. I link to several from my blog. I’m not asking you to take my word for it. Surely, not every human rights group is lying.

Even US President Bush is commenting on the human rights situation in China. I disagree with Bush about pretty much everything, so this is a big deal.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/05/china19547.htm
http://www.64tianwang.com/index.htm
http://www.hrichina.org/public/index

Anyway, I think I have defended my positions enough. China is in a position to make improvements. There have been great achievements in economic development and environmental quality leading up to the Games. But there is always room for improvement, and human rights is one of those areas.

Hope you enjoy the Games. Peace.

By: Toro

Toro — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:02:07 +0000

Olympics is a sports event, not about politics! You or SDP blames that we chinese has politicized Olympics, unfortunately, you did the same thing. you always highlights that you do not support and even know SDP, so why put such anonymous information here?
You think that Fanlun Gong is showing their different opinions about China. Ridiculous! Fanlun Gong is CULT!! The government do the right thing for us, to protect people’s life.
You do not know China. You do not know your information source. You can not be responsible for tour words, do you? Why you still here have so-called your own opinion?

By: leesean

leesean — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:23:09 +0000

1. I am not Chinese. I am Taiwanese and American. Let’s not fight about this Taiwan vs. China thing.
2. I don’t know the source of the letter I posted. I couldn’t find anything about the Social Democratic Party of China online. It just ended up in my inbox.
3. Believe me, I didn’t write it, because my Chinese is not that good, and I don’t really know simplified characters anyway.
4. To Warry: While harmony may be a cultural value, I’m not going to believe that in a country with 1.3 billion people there aren’t going to be different opinions. Remember those protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989? Or what about Falun Gong? I’m sure they have some differences with the Chinese government. There are plenty of other examples, so enough said.
5. Just for the record, I’m not anti-China. Every country has skeletons in the closet. Both of my countries, Taiwan and the US have plenty. But I don’t take it personally when people point that out because there is a difference between my own identity and that of my government. Human rights are universal standards. Countries SHOULD be subject to international criticism. I hate what the US is doing in Iraq, Guantanamo and in many other places as much as many people who are not US Americans.

By: Warry

Warry — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:57:00 +0000

hi,above guy who named BABEL ,you mentioned that LEESEAN is a Chinese ? is it true?

To Leesean:
I just look around in the world of internet ,to find some different ideas indeed,and as BABEL said that no people of our country admit some different things that people don’t agree,it’s Chinese traditional and soul of our culture–HARMONY.

With opportunity of this great game,what we Chinese want to do is just show ourselves to the world and make ourselves understood–our best willing to the world:one world ,one dream.
And what’s more,nearly all of we Chinese people think this is great chance to let the world understand China,since we always been misunderstand.

Let me remind you ,if you don’t understand other country’s culture and people and their idea,never express your attitude so random without think it over,cause it bring hurt and conflit.Just like USA always blame other countries’s human right situation,while the countries hate USA.

By: babel

babel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:47:54 +0000

I can understand this boycotting thing.
But I really do not feel so good. Most Chinese admit the dark side of the society. We are human. Society always has problems. Why can’t we just be friendly and nice? This SDP or something, I never heard it before. Could you please do not hurt our feelings, ok? You are Chinese, you must know how we highlight this event. We wait for so many years , do not take our happiness away, ok? If you think you are fight for us.

By: leesean

leesean — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46:24 +0000

I just passed along information from a Chinese source. The words are not mine, so I don’t get the flames from pissed-off Chinese people, since there is clearly dissent and disagreement even within China. This is good and healthy for an open society. I am fine with publishing the flames I get on this blog because I am confident enough in my beliefs to withstand criticism, even if they are baseless and ad hominem.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:40:02 +0000

It is a waste of time to criticize your stupid words, you are definitely rubbish of Harvard.Please be responsible for your blog, do not be the blacksheep of your university.

By: alexande lee

alexande lee — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:04:32 +0000

I agree with you.

By: ridiculous

ridiculous — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:59:00 +0000

i am ordinary chinese and I love China and support our government.

rubish central comitee of fucking sdp of ass go hell.

By: ridiculous

ridiculous — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:55:42 +0000

what is is social democratic party of China？ never never heard about it…
it is a shame of sdp

By: yang

yang — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:39:14 +0000

You want to manage china .
Go death

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:49:59 +0000

I am a common Chinese. In my view, the Social Democratic Party of China are jerks. They are criticizing the chinese communist party at a wrong time and at a absolutely wrong event. By doing so, they can only win the hatred and distain and dispise from all chinese people. that’s why I say they are jerks, wildly stupid. meanwhile, such a unwise doing indicates their inability. ha ha ha ha ha!