http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/01/04/new-piece-in-the-new-york-times-celebrates-china-offering-its-version-of-freedom-during-the-pandemic/
We don’t know how much the Chinese Communist Party pays the New York Times to place pieces in its pages, but we’re guessing it’s a good income stream for the paper. In Monday’s New York Times, Li Yuan explains that although Beijing keeps its uncompromising grip on power through surveillance and censorship, you have the freedom to walk around during the pandemic.
Li Yuan ~ My latest on how the pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Chinese don’t have freedom of speech, freedom of worship or freedom from fear, but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life.
No freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, and no freedom from fear, BUT they have the freedom to lead a NORMAL day-to-day life???!!! Seriously ... what f**king planet are you from?
Yuan writes:
Mr. [Duncan] Clark, a businessman and an author, returned to China after spending nine months in the United States and France, his longest time away from the country since he moved to Beijing in 1994. He had been spending more time outside China over the past few years to get away from air pollution, censored internet and an increasingly depressing political environment.
But when he returned in October, he felt something new: safe, energized and free.
“The ability to just live a normal life is pretty amazing,” he said.
While many countries are still reeling from Covid-19, China — where the pandemic originated — has become one of the safest places in the world. The country reported fewer than 100,000 infections for all of 2020. The United States has been reporting more than that every day since early November.
China resembles what “normal” was like in the pre-pandemic world. Restaurants are packed. Hotels are full. Long lines form outside luxury brands stores. Instead of Zoom calls, people are meeting face to face to talk business or celebrate the new year.
So the guy who left China to get away from internet censorship is now calling life in China “amazing” because the bar has been lowered so far he can go to a restaurant.
Razor ~ People in wonderful virus-free China don't enjoy many freedoms but unlike America they have freedom to move, unless they get thrown in a gulag.
Rita Panahi ~ Millions in forced labor camps would beg to disagree.
Mark Compliant Not ~ Not having freedom of speech and freedom of worship is not normal day-to-day life.
Most of us will be willing to put our lives on the line to keep those things. ...
art jones ~ What if they would like to move around to Taiwan? ...
Patrick Goodwin ~ Blink twice if you are in need of assistance.
Just Jenn ~ Sounds super awesome.
*blink, blink* ...
No Followers, Please ~ How’s Jack Ma’s freedom of movement? ...
Facepalmer ~ The sweet freedom of living in a fascist slave labour state.
Yeah, I'm sure clo is now really, really conflicted about where she wants to live. She wanted to live in Cuba where she could get fabulous, state-of-the-art healthcare, like being bled with leeches ... BUT, NOW ... she could move to China where she could have freedom of movement. Quite a dilemma for her!
Joey ~ The Communist Times
Je suis Charlie ~
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aidanjt ~ When abject tyranny is your starting point, 'normal day-to-day life' isn't a particularly high bar to clear. It's more like casually strolling over a broom stick lying on the ground. ...
cmarie ~ OK, I'll say this, I teach (7 years college) many many many international students. I won't exaggerate, but I can honestly say MOST of them (from China and elsewhere) end up confiding in me that they came to the US for FREEDOM!! ...
James Fountain ~ Well we have all those freedoms in Florida so ... guess we win.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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