Comments on: Goodwill to all men – Chinese style

By: stuart

stuart — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:15:57 +0000

Because that topic doesn’t enter the sphere within which this blog operates.

I could, however, post about the attitude of Chinese towards India and Indians without the need to apply my ‘topic filter’.

By: MAC

MAC — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:31:14 +0000

@stuart

For a change, why don’t you blog something about Aussies’ treatment of the Indians just because they are Indians?

By: MAC

MAC — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:11:19 +0000

“I’d say you have gone pretty low with comment #14, MAC.”

What is so low about condemning the election of Hitler and Rwandan genocide?

By: justrecently

justrecently — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:26:54 +0000

Wolf Biermann, a songwriter in East Germany, wrote a line which went "in our three-partitioned country" during the 1970s - a line which suggested that what became Polish territory after WW2 was still German. Biermann was by no means up to reclaiming those territories. He only used the line to smack the ruling East German SED. Neither the Polish government, nor even East Germany's politbureau took issue. They understood the meaning, and they weren't that paranoid. Biermann, half-jewish, survived the Holocaust, together with his mother, while his father was killed in a concentration camp. You see, a man can be well aware of the possibly incindiary potential of language, and still use words to smack those who abuse their powers. I'd say you have gone pretty low with comment #14, MAC.

By: stuart

stuart — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:37:30 +0000

“Please remember right of expression and democracy also helped elected Hitler and contributed a great deal in the Rwandan genocide”

You’ve turned me right around with that compelling argument.