Yeah, there are still thousands of mass public executions carried out in China every year. I challenge anyone to argue it is anything other than an inhumane nation.
It's a humane nation, but it has an inhumane government.
I won't argue with the notion of a humane nation since the phrase seems pretty meaningless apart from its government. Although of course ultimately government practices, I'm sure especially in a that a country with the levels of repression and violence that occur in China and have over so much of its history, have a great deal of influence on the values, social climate, norms of behavior etc of the ordinary masses.
Instead of hypothesizing, if you've traveled to (mainland) China and met the people there, you'd see that their values and behavioral norms are in a stark contrast to those of the government and their officials.
What do you mean by values and behavioural norms? Which part of China are you referring to?
In response to the point of this thread, I was referring to Chinese mass execution rallies (filling sports stadiums, public squares etc to witness and cheer on execution style killings). I understand some spectators are forced to attend but from the brief footage I've seen it was shocking how many genuinely appeared to be enjoying themselves-- more visibly than I could imagine clapping or yelling their support for the barbarism in modern, civilized societies like the US and Japan. Of course I'm not saying Chinese are violence prone as a general statement, it was simply an observation from my brief exposure. Perhaps I should have been more circumscribed.
This was a very reputable news broadcast on current economic and social trends with the reporter as disbelieving as his audience. It most definately wasn't the Cultural Revolution although I've heard that a very recent trend is for large-scale public spectacle executions to become less prominent as they are not as economical as lethal injections, especially administered onsite in a mobile van unit type set up.
Ok, let's clear the misunderstandings then. So when did you see the footage? How old was the footage? I like to see it myself also.In response to the point of this thread, I was referring to Chinese mass execution rallies (filling sports stadiums, public squares etc to witness and cheer on execution style killings). I understand some spectators are forced to attend but from the brief footage I've seen it was shocking how many genuinely appeared to be enjoying themselves-- more visibly than I could imagine clapping or yelling their support for the barbarism in modern, civilized societies like the US and Japan. Of course I'm not saying Chinese are violence prone as a general statement, it was simply an observation from my brief exposure. Perhaps I should have been more circumscribed.
I didn't say anything about Japan concealing atrocities. I was only expressing my view of what 'brutal' photos are supposed to be like and that's why I also mentioned the Nazis and the Americans. It seems to me that Japanese are extremely sensitive, as sensitive as all east Asians.
What are you saying? Some of us just genuinely expressed our concerns about the issue in the original post. Someone else started posting about WWII and comparing footage posted (fulfulling a request) with war atrocities.
I'm saying we should all be concerning about the Tibetians - those who got shot down by the PLA, not wasting our time on different subjects on Japan and WW2, or the Cultural Revolution, or the mass public executions since as you said before,there're already threads about WW2 etc.What are you saying? Some of us just genuinely expressed our concerns about the issue in the original post. Someone else started posting about WWII and comparing footage posted (fulfulling a request) with war atrocities.
You call it hijacking, some might call it misscommunication.
That's sad indeed.
You are the one who initially requested footage specifically on the mass execution I referred to seeing recently on television. Firstly, these practices are thoroughly documented so it is unclear what aspect was so unbelievable ; secondly it could be considered further 'hijacking,' although I wouldn't phrase it as a "waste of time" or completely unrelated which does come off as insensitive. Of course we should all be as interested and concerned about human rights abuses in Tibet as anywhere in China or the entire world for that matter.I'm saying we should all be concerning about the Tibetians - those who got shot down by the PLA, not wasting our time on different subjects on Japan and WW2, or the Cultural Revolution, or the mass public executions since as you said before,there're already threads about WW2 etc.
This thread is a joke because the thread starter is hijacking it with lots of links which are unrelated to the topic itself.
