Thank you! That’s Futile Attempt to Establish Moral Equivalency #37!

According to the checklist, I only have five more to find before I complete the whole set!

What is with the woman lying on the ground at the stairs?
Is she perhaps deceased? Looks awful and inappropriate to joke about imo. :P :(

I wondered about that. I expected it was a street vendor being beaten up by the authorities. Turns out I was probably right. A quick google image search on the image gave this:
Link
(google is giving me very strange urls ATM)

Which led to this:
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=1112945654
or translated:
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://tieba.baidu.com/f%3Fkz%3D1112945654

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm

Why? Is it because you realised that your fighting and dying isn’t going to accomplish much when the rest of the country or the rest of the world is largely apathetic? In the last UK election 35% of the eligible voters did not vote, and similar numbers abstained from voting in the last US election. There are just a large number of people everywhere in the world who don’t give a damn about politics as long as there’s food on the table and a roof over their heads. It probably the same in China – a large number of people just don’t care about politics and their day-to-day living never run the risk of breaking the law, however restrictive the laws may be. Hell, the apathy in China is probably worse since there’s has never been a democratic culture. And the rest of them are just like you – they want freedom, probably yearning for it with every ounce of strength in their body, but just like you they are not idealists and know that had they fought and died without popular support, they will most likely have accomplished absolutely nothing.

http://twitpic.com/5ip8r8

Bengluke

I’d have just used the second photo, it looks okay to me, but I’m not a propaganda mill worker.

Okay, you’re talking about foreign media, not private conversations.

Are any foreigners, of any kind, allowed to travel freely and have private conversations with citizens who aren’t Party members? Can you just take a bus to the country and chat with the locals?

Second, the one with giant Jesus is the best.

Umm… have you heard of Sina, Renren, Baidu, Sohu, Tudou, and Taobao? Your view is American-centric, no?

http://i54.tinypic.com/20ggzr5.jpg

The photoshop job though, horrible.

While many will find it amusing, these three probably have no sense of humour and will be looking to cut off some heads.

It’s just that there’s no agreement/harmony between the direction/intensity of the light source and the shadows.

Chinese exceptionalism is the new Arab exceptionalism.

it is extraordinarily rare to find a mainland Chinese person who doesn’t support the current system

Of course, you won’t find anyone who doesn’t support the system. Someone is listening when you talk to them and prepared to make them disappear if they say the wrong thing. Parents of children killed by tainted milk or sub-standard schools that collapsed in recent earthquakes have been harassed, beaten and arrested for simply trying to get information.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7079/chinesephotoshopdisaste.jpg

rebdav: It’s like what happens to people who criticise Israel, you see. You know what happens there.

I really wanted to see that image, to go along with my recent reading of Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. But I hear Pope Benny is launching his own LulzSec-style campaign. He’s crowd-sourcing the hacking; 10,000 heretic names, 1 middling decent indulgence. Good for at least 2 mortal sins.