We previously discussed how the United States was sharply criticized in a government-supported newspaper in China for the long lines of voters who had to wait for hours to cast their ballots. Now, the happiest place on Earth, has announced its new leader: Xi Jinging. Xi was selected without any lines of citizens, who of course were not allowed to vote at all.
The regular decade transition occurred by an orchestrated vote of the Community Party Congress with his appointment as general secretary after a meeting of senior Communists. The Chinese people were informed of the selection as Xi walked into the Great Hall of the People with other Politburo members.
The rise of Xi to power is viewed as another affirmation of a new “red nobility” class — leaders who come from families with a long communist power pedigree. Xi is the son of a hero of the revolution and three other members have similar family ties. With continuing scandals involving the gathering of huge wealth by Communist leaders, China now fits every definition of an aristocracy using Communist controls to protect its power and wealth. Think of Louis XIV in a Mao jacket.
Source: CBS
The only thoughts I have control over are my own, and that is a relief. That knowledge makes my life much more serene and happy.
Oh really…. My opinion of you is that you try and comtol….. however, You have violated the basic rule…. You disclosed a personal location…..
Not really….. I could care less what either you or nick think. It is your right to think it, and it is my right to disagree.
You don’t confront anything….you try and control…
No it’s called control….
The way I look at it these people can spout all the hate and disrespect they want, but the rest of us then have the right and obligation to speak up and confront it.
I like everyone regardless of race…. The people I dislike its for specific reasons…. They are usually elitist snobs that impose their views on others….. And expect them to dance when you speak…..
Yeah it’s terrible…. But look at your actions….
Mike S.,
As you know I respect your opinions….. But sometimes the pc crap can be just as offensive….. We don’t live in iconic caste… If we did then there are other repercussions….. You have learned to suck it up just like I have…. This is a free speech site lest we forget its purpose…. I’m sure you haven’t…. There are some folks here that unless you pimple head em…. You just ain’t one of em….. Or they try and CONTROL you…. Just like with this PC crap….
AY,
I’ll respond offline.
Not surprising the texan agrees with nick. Look how they treated the mexicans and the black people in Texas.
bettykath, I did not even like it when I was a child and heard ethnic slurs such as japanese kids being called japs.. I guess they can call me pc but I have always been that way.
Like I said nick…. Many, many faces…. The real strawman …..
I’m with Smom on this one. Ethnic slurs tend to divide people by accenting stereotype, not bring them together.
Nick,
You’ll find many faces with that one…. Controlling is the apt word….
Nick….. You’re doing a fine job…. I got a chuckle…. And even more so now….
nick, I think you can assume that if one is at a comedy anything goes, but using ethnic slurs in the workplace won’t get you too far these days.
SWM, We just have to disagree w/ that. You just gave one of the pc commandments that I reject. Don’t ever go to a standup comedy show!
nick, The way I look at it is that each ethnic group is allowed to make fun of themselves but not others. You omitted the names that asians, mexicans, blacks and jews were called.
I wonder what he promised them….
Blouise, Just tweaking the pc police. As I’ve said, I grew up in an ethnic, blue collar culture. We had dagos, micks, pollacks, frogs, bohunks, krauts, etc. My old man did not allow racial slang in the house. We made fun of each other, engaged in stereotypes and laughed, ate and drank together. And, when you grow up in that culture you also develop a keen sense when someone is just engaging in good natured ballbusting or being hateful. I think you know I was more busting your lady balls about Kucinich, as I’ve done in the past. And we are cool about that.
Dredd, you get it!
MikeS and SWM, You don’t, and never will.
“We had dagos, micks, pollacks, frogs, bohunks, krauts, etc. My old man did not allow racial slang in the house. We made fun of each other, engaged in stereotypes and laughed, ate and drank together.”
Nick,
i’ll bet you also had “Kikes”, “Sheenies” and “Heebes”. Where I grew up was just as tough and “blue collar”. In school if someone called me a Kike who wasn’t Jewish, I’d hit him. You also left out “Chinks”, “Spics”, “Nigger” and “Coon”. You portray an era of ethnic bliss and blue collar solidarity that only lived in the minds of people who were too much in denial to understand that these weren’t playful words, they were words of derision.
I’m more than positive that if some non-Italian, who wasn’t a friend called you a “Guinea” you would have had a beef with them. When my father was growing up in Brownsville, in Brooklyn (you may have heard of it), when he went through different ethnic areas he was at risk of being attacked by having his pants pulled down to see if he was circumcised, therefore a “Dirty KiKe”. He was a big man and didn’t take kindly to it.
I truth, all of my Father’s closest friend when I was growing up were Italian mixed between the Sicilian and Southern variety. Among the men such ethnic slurs were used, but it was understood to be kidding. none of my father’s friends, or he would have dealt kindly with an outsider using those terms.
Therein lies the problem, which you persistently cavalierly refer to as PC. Ethnic slurs are meant to be hurtful and someone who is sensitive to that doesn’t use them. Maybe that’s why you should have followed this intelligent example: “My old man did not allow racial slang in the house.” I wonder why he felt that way?