The Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal ways did not begin with the mass Uyghur incarcerations. Twenty-four years ago the CCP kicked off “its brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong in China,” writes John A. Deller in The Epoch Times.
“Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) was introduced to the public in China by Mr. Li Hongzhi in May 1992,” explains Mr. Deller. “It is a spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition based on the principles of truth, compassion, and forbearance. . . . By 1998, over 70 million people across China had found improved health and morality through Falun Gong.”
In the West, we may not immediately see how dangerous (to tyrants) a religio-philosophical movement like Falun Gong could be.
Isn’t it innocuous? When D. T. Suzuki introduced Zen Buddhism to the U.S. in the last century, most Americans . . . yawned.
But the Chinazis did not yawn. They banned Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. And began arresting and imprisoning and torturing and executing its practitioners.
While Deller insists that Falun Gong was not perceived by most of its practitioners to be intrinsically anti-communist, over the course of the antagonism it has dawned on the persecuted that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is indeed at odds with “truth, compassion, and forbearance.”
What really bothers the CCP? Ideas.
Of independence . . . forbearance.
Of truth . . . not propaganda.
Of compassion . . . the idea that maybe prisoners shouldn’t be killed to facilitate lucrative organ transplants.
The 24-year-old genocide is a memecide, the attempted final solution to these paramount ideas.
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Yes, it’s ugly.
Of course, it was ugly when American states put bounties on Mormons and when the federal government burned Branch Davidians alive, too.
Paul,
Your Anti China hysteria seems to grow with each additional post. I suggest you concentrate on the religious discrimination that happens around you every day.
In the year I lived there, I was introduced to many Chinese people who were Catholic. They attended mass weekly.
In the USSA, Catholics have been labeled a Terrorist group by Uncle Joe’s DOJ.
Peace be with you!
I doubt that propagandizing in comments to this ‘blog is a good use of your time.
The Chinese state does not allow the Roman Catholic Church to operate freely in China. Instead, the state itself doesn’t merely claim a right to veto cleric appointments but has gone so far as to effect them itself, when it transfered Bishop Shen Bin from Haimen and appointed him as Archbishop of Shanghai, over objections of the Vatican.
Tolerating a bastardization of Roman Catholicism in no way licenses the imprisonment, torture, and murder of practitioners of Falun Gong.
Since Paul routinely objects to the policies of the Biden Administration, your whataboutism is actively absurd.