alt Hacker NewsAbsolutely crazy when we see countries like China not be close to as bad as the most evil empire ever, the US. And yet somehow the thought is the US isn’t the worst with human rights.
Absolutely crazy when we see countries like China not be close to as bad as the most evil empire ever, the US. And yet somehow the thought is the US isn’t the worst with human rights.
When I was in my early 20s in Thailand I hated America under George W Bush. I had a conversation with a Tibetan guy who was on his way to sneak into China to help his village in Tibet which had been invaded back in the 50s, then colonized. He was going to help dig wells.
I said to him: "America is just as bad as China! We're becoming the same thing!" This was during the Iraq war.
He stopped me short. He said, "no you cannot compare them, at all, ever. You don't understand. I went to school at [ivy league college]. America is still a democracy. You have no idea how dangerous it is in China."
He was right. I didn't...I was a spoiled kid with good intentions, and no understanding of how much evil there was in the world. You don't have the reference point of experiencing pure evil either to say what you're saying.