What I'm wearing to see the torch today

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I am not really wearing this shirt today. I am not a pro-China demonstrator.

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Erika Hall says:

hott
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Really? You support China's invasion and occupation of Tibet? Some of us in the American left (socialists, et al) may support China in order to oppose unchecked US imperialism or as an example of an alternative to capitalism (though China's version of socialism is far from what any of would consider egalitarian at this point -- its elite benefits from participation in the global economy as much as the US elite does). But don't we have to separate that from its tyrannical political and economic elite? Don't we have to be critical of what deserves to be critical of? I think we should be. So then the question is: how to oppose China's occupation of Tibet and its treatment of its own people while opposing US imperialism? I want an independent, egalitarian, socialist China that treats its people and its neighbors with respect. Until then, I will oppose the Chinese government. And I will always stand against the Chinese government and Chinese elites invading, occupying, and exploiting Tibet. Free Tibet! China out of Tibet! NOW!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

kfury says:

powertools: I believe the phrase here is 'visual sarcasm'. Note the 'freetibet' tag.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zombiebite says:

powertools, will you ever win?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

shaderlab says:

Shit. I wore it for jury duty on Monday.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

powertools94608 says:

Oh. OK. Sorry if I missed the irony or sarcasm. :-)
My bad for taking it seriously.
I assumed Mat Honan was a socialist trying to undermine Tibet's big day in San Francisco and I didn't want to see it go unchallenged.

Blockading China's Olympic torch route with this shirt on would be excellent.

I just learned this: "The torch relay got its start during the so-called Fascist Olympics held in 1936 Berlin, when the Nazis seized upon the idea as a way to associate the Third Reich with ancient Greece." The Olympics, and the torch run in particular, has always been political, it seems.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7330949.stm

www.meyul.com/2008/04/01/free-tibet-vs-free-s peech-zones/

Finally, zombiebite, for me, it's: will WE ever win? And who has to lose for us to "win?"

Hope to see you all on the streets today...
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zombiebite says:

I'm willing to take a bullet for the team!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

torrez says:

Oh powertools94608, you're a hoot.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Mike Monteiro says:

Whoever made this shirt is an ASSHOLE!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Hankins says:

"I assumed Mat Honan was a socialist trying to undermine Tibet's big day in San Francisco."
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Mike Monteiro says:

Were you the guy I saw at the march carrying the big "I hate human rights!" sign?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

heraldeixample says:

I am in favour of a free Tibet but I just wonder whereas the Tibetan people are the only world's people that are submited and I believe that friends of my enemy are my enemies; therefore if one knows who are the friends of any dictatorship one shall know who are my enemies and then it might happen that there are many.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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