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Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
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#12It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights. >Firearms-related crimes posed serious threat to the lives and personal security of citizens in the U.S. Some shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theater shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut. Also, please be aware that this is a tra…
Imagine trying to keep 1.2 billion people under a what amounts to a fascist/statist control if they were are as heavily armed as USasians
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#13It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights. >Firearms-related crimes posed serious threat to the lives and personal security of citizens in the U.S. Some shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theater shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut. Also, please be aware that this is a tra…
I suppose you can consider that the high number of deaths due to firearms in the US goes against the right to "life[1], liberty and security of person".
From a European point of view, the US right to carry/own a weapon is so used and out of control that it affects this basic right to life.
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#14Chinese viewpoint === everybody else but the US viewpoint
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#15It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights. >Firearms-related crimes posed serious threat to the lives and personal security of citizens in the U.S. Some shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theater shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut. Also, please be aware that this is a tra…
Well, I think some people see it as a recklessly irresponsible thing to do for citizens' safety.
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#16This isn't a real Chinese viewpoint, this is propaganda issued by state. I know many Chinese who are throughly disgusted by the official media.
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#17This isn't a real Chinese viewpoint, this is propaganda issued by state. I know many Chinese who are throughly disgusted by the official media.
Does that make it any less true?
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#18It's always interesting reading reports on the US through a Chinese media perspective. Stories go round relatively regularly using very carefully selected snippets of news to paint a particularly negative portrait that isn't factually wrong, but so narrowly focused that it misses the overall picture (deliberately)
On the parts really stabbing into US communications monitoring, I suspect the reasoning is so the Chinese government can say "Look, it's even worse in the west!" to cover the extent of their own filters and monitoring (which most Chinese people are only vaguely aware of. Most of them take what they're told by the Chinese government as simple fact, and even when they can see the facts from a less biased perspective still refuse to accept it)
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#19It's a good thing we have that new perspective. Here in Spain there is no independent press at all. You have the "left" press and the "right" press. Each one talks wonders about their preferred party and throws shit at the others. So you have look into the "left" press to know extensively about the shit from the right party, and vice versa. Similarly, the best perspective about what's wrong with the US is found on no…
> Here in Spain spain/poland/russia/uk/germany/france/italy/everywhere... it's easier to be aware that journalism just works that way - ideologies are commercialized.
Yeah, that's what I suspect, but my first-hand knowledge comes only from Spain.
It's a very sad situation.
Re: Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)
#20pot.kettle.black
Tu quoque is a fallacy, though.