Yep, I said it.
There is some news floating around the internet, that a young Chinese giving a speech at some American university. In her speech, she said almost nothing wrong, no lies whatsoever. She praised the air quality. She said she enjoyed the open and democratic atmosphere there in America. And, that's about it. It was pretty much it until some media inside China began to say things like she was betraying her own country. How dare she compare America and her own motherland. Soon a huge number of internet trolls inside China began harassing her, including digging up her personal info.
It was like a dream. And I really can not say it was not a dream. Because, for me, I believe the basic human right of free speech. And besides she made no lies. She just gave some observations of her own.
Days after the news broke, under pressure, she apologized. To whom I don't understand. I guess trolls won, again.
when you look at this whole thing from certain prospective, it's pretty scary. Because you will see what nationalism would do to people. Blind nationalism will distort people's visions, making them do things that are so illogical that almost laughable.
For one thing, what are these trolls defending? They are certainly not defending truth, or freedom of expression that's for sure. Nobody in China would deny that in America, air is indeed much more cleaner, and people enjoy much more personal freedom. It is a fact. Saying fact is no crime. If stopping people saying truth about a country is what the trolls do, then they are no trolls, they are slaves.
Years of education finally we have so many people that are defending a government against truth.
And who else is using blind nationalism to do the biding? Well from what I can see, most of the countries.
Depressing.
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