A Blatant Dismissal of Facts about China's Holocaust by LA Times 洛杉矶时报关于中共大虐杀的左倾盲点与谬误

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A Blatant Dismissal of Facts about China's Holocaust by LA Times

洛杉矶时报关于中共大虐杀的左倾盲点与谬误

With Mao Worship and Communist Regime still in Power, Chinese Holocaust is omitted.

崇毛与中共的强权正在阉割世界的良知-毛的大虐杀被西左删除

“The Nazi regime has become an all-purpose symbol of evil these days, frequently invoked to demonize one's political opponents regardless of where they stand on the ideological spectrum. China's Communist Party leadership does not represent the threat to world peace that the Nazis did, and it's naive to compare China's suppression of certain religious minorities or political dissidents to the Holocaust. Yet in one area — propaganda — it's striking how little the methods of dictators have changed between 1936 and 2010. -- LA Times Editorial”

Kai Chen 陈凯 12/10/2010 www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

Can you imagine if Hitler's Nazi regime were still in power, how the world media would treat the facts of the Holocaust? If Hitler's image were still worshipped in Germany, would there be many Holocaust memorials around the world today? Are there any official documentations today of China's Holocaust under Mao and the communist regime with regard of China's Land Reform, Great Leap Forward, Anti-Rightist Movement, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Massacre and many other atrocities that caused more than 80 million innocent lives? Are there any indignation and condemnations today by presenting the facts of atrocities by the Chinese communist regime in the Western/American mainstream media? If not, why?

The fact that Mao’s corpse and portrait are still displayed on Tiananmen Square dominating the Chinese political, cultural, spiritual and physical landscapes, the fact that Mao’s image is on every note of Chinese currency, the fact that the murderous Chinese communist regime is still in charge with increasing power by trading with the West and America, the fact that most people in the West and America with their amoral and immoral view of the current world, especially toward China (Mao’s statue in Nixon Library, Mao’s portraits and quotations in Obama White House and administration, Mao’s Kitchen/Diners, Mao’s T-shirts, Mao’s image in many places in America….) with its holding large credit over American government, all shows you why today’s LA Times in its editorial “A Noble Nobel Winner” deliberately and blatantly dismissed Chinese Holocaust by Mao and the communist regime, cowardly avoiding Mao’s atrocities that caused many times of deaths than the Jewish Holocaust during WWII.

While I applaud the editorial’s comparison between Nazi Germany and China’s communist regime, I am deeply disturbed by the article’s furtive and timid dismissal of Mao’s atrocities with the current regime holding Mao’s image and ideology as the very foundation of its power:

“The Nazi regime has become an all-purpose symbol of evil these days, frequently invoked to demonize one's political opponents regardless of where they stand on the ideological spectrum. China's Communist Party leadership does not represent the threat to world peace that the Nazis did, and it's naive to compare China's suppression of certain religious minorities or political dissidents to the Holocaust. Yet in one area — propaganda — it's striking how little the methods of dictators have changed between 1936 and 2010. -- LA Times Editorial”

This blind and confusing statement by LA Editorial shows not only the fear exhibited by the Western/American media, but the danger this fear and unwillingness to confront truth, to confront evil will pose to the world. Is it “naïve” to compare Jewish Holocaust during WWII with the Chinese Holocaust during peacetime under Mao, or is it an understatement? Does China not pose to the world peace as Hitler did after he came to power, or does China pose as much graver danger to the world with its newly acquired economic and military power that is many times stronger than the Nazi Germany?

China, with the complacency and moral confusion under an omnipresent “political correctness” in the West, has long learned that it can use the freedoms in the West to spread its own spiritual AIDS virus and to sell its most potent moral narcotics via many vicious propaganda tools such as economic invasion, cultural infiltration (Confucius Institutes/Classrooms), political intimidation and moral castration (diversity, harmony, relativism, unity, peace as fake values against universal values of truth, justice, liberty and human dignity).

We are repeating history right under our own very eyes: 1936 Berlin Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics, dismissal of Jewish persecution pre-WWII and the dismissal of Chinese Holocaust under Mao and the current regime’s persecution of religious groups, ethnic minorities and political dissidents, propaganda by the Nazi regime to espouse the virtues of collective tyranny with a new world order and the propaganda of the Chinese communist regime to spread a new authoritarian despotism with a neo-Confucianism-dominated new world order…. The similarities are striking.

The reluctance of the left in the West and America to expose China’s communist regime’s evil nature is tied to its own ill/blind worship of power. Thomas Friedman of NY Times openly praises Beijing regime for it 2008 Olympics achievement and wants America to emulate China. Many liberal leftists in the West, with their yearning for a utopian heaven-on-earth, dismiss America as the best society and model for mankind in its pursuit of life , liberty and happiness. They look toward China which is gaining strength by the minute as some kind future model of mankind, while harboring an unspeakable vitriol and disgust toward individual freedom and responsibility. Parental government by Confucian “virtues” now espoused tirelessly by the Chinese regime has somehow become the moral basis for the liberal left. Single-mindedly destroying America has somehow become not only a pathological obsession, but a spiritual mission to these morally confused, intellectually dishonest and politically power-thirst creatures. Today’s LA Times Editorial on Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize with its dismissal of the Chinese Holocaust is only a symptom in this grand design and sick infatuation.

Being one who grew up in China during Mao era and came to the US when Ronald Reagan was the president with his vision of America being the “Shining City on the Hill”, I only want to warn the world: We are repeating history by our own moral blindness, confusion and selective amnesia toward historical facts.

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“A Noble Nobel Winner”

一个高尚的诺奖获得者

LA Times Editorial

December 10, 2010

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-nobel-20101210,0,3314825.story

In 1936, German journalist Carl von Ossietzky was under heavy pressure from the Nazis to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize; Hitler and his cronies saw the award as a slap in the face to the regime because Ossietzky had dedicated his career to exposing German rearmament and militarism. He rejected the government's contention that he was essentially excommunicating himself from German society by accepting the award, writing a letter from his hospital bed (where he was confined as a result of tuberculosis and the torture he had endured in prison) that read, in part, "The Nobel Peace Prize is not a sign of an internal political struggle, but of understanding between peoples."

Ossietzky comes to mind as this year's prize ceremony is held Friday in Oslo because of a historical echo. The 2010 recipient, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, cannot attend because he is being held in prison, and the Chinese government is also preventing his wife and other family members from accepting the award. This marks the first time since Ossietzky in 1936 that neither the Nobel recipient nor a family member has been present.

The Nazi regime has become an all-purpose symbol of evil these days, frequently invoked to demonize one's political opponents regardless of where they stand on the ideological spectrum. China's Communist Party leadership does not represent the threat to world peace that the Nazis did, and it's naive to compare China's suppression of certain religious minorities or political dissidents to the Holocaust. Yet in one area — propaganda — it's striking how little the methods of dictators have changed between 1936 and 2010.

The Nazis pressured the Nobel Committee to not give the award to Ossietzky; Beijing warned the committee that giving it to Liu would seriously damage relations between China and Norway. After Ossietzky's award was announced, the Nazis forbade German newspapers from reporting on it; similar constraints were placed on the Chinese media. Hitler created a competing award, the German National Prize for Art and Science; the Chinese did the same, calling it the Confucius Peace Prize and giving it to a Taiwanese leader who favors warm relations with China.

Such efforts at misdirection notwithstanding, Ossietzky had it right. This year's prize is a recognition by the rest of the world that the struggle between Liu and Beijing represents something bigger than Chinese politics: Liu has sacrificed his freedom in the fight for universal human rights, which are denied the citizens of many countries besides China. Oslo is shining a light on shameful conduct that even the world's mightiest oligarchs can't extinguish.

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