Hey, you know we get real upset when you club the baby seals. skin a dog or cat alive, gas a mink - but no one cares much when you slaughter a cow or a sow.
To paraphrase Dennis Leary, we only want to protect the cute ones.
Skinning dogs alive sucks. But the totalitarian regime the PRC espouses has a lot of fans among our ‘progressive’ elites - like George Soros.
Honestly, we are looking at cultural evolution. The PRC is evolving. Despite massive, endemic corruption, there are honest attempts to control it. Despite arrogant officials abusing power, the are efforts to curtail it - both inside and outside the power structure.
There ae certainly large groups of people in China who would find skinning a dog alive to be a terrible thing. Just as there are those to whom it is no big deal. Inhumanity is humanities struggle.
Speaking up is a good thing. Demonizing a whole culture* is just wrong - and won’t really rally those in that culture who agree with you.
The PRC is a tough character, but for every bad thing you can say, I bet there is a good thing too. For example, if you leave out politics and religion - in many ways you are more free to do what you want in business in China than in the US. Older folks are treated better and are ‘cool’ versus discriminated dross in the US.
My belief is that change is won gradually, not through violence, only then is the outcome lasting. Violence, hatred and anger lead often to more problems than existed in the first place.
*exception to this rule are cultures that are based entirely on war and oppression. Cultures that harbor hatred, violence and anger for the ‘other.’ Once common, but changing throughout the world, we must have the courage to stand up to oppressors - but also to not be warlike busybodies ourselves.
Okay - I’m all over the map here. Back to work…
