Posted on 06/20/2019 4:10:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sadly, NBC siding with the totalitarians who run Communist China doesn’t come as a surprise.
“Xinhua News Agency, the official news organization of the Communist Party, declared that Falun Gong is “opposed to the Communist Party of China and the central government, preaches idealism, theism and feudal superstition.”[164] Xinhua also asserted that “the so-called ‘truth, kindness and forbearance’ principle preached by [Falun Gong] has nothing in common with the socialist ethical and cultural progress we are striving to achieve”, and argued that it was necessary to crush Falun Gong to preserve the “vanguard role and purity” of the Communist Party.[165] Other articles appearing in the state-run media in the first days and weeks of the ban posited that Falun Gong must be defeated because its “theistic” philosophy was at odds with the Marxist–Leninism paradigm and with the secular values of materialism.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Speculation_on_rationale
The Chinese Communist Party and Falun Gong have a massive worldwide fight going on. Although suppressed in China, Falun Gong has tons of money from its adherents in the rest of the world. You may be exposed to it most if you have the “Shen Yun” performances coming to your community. That is a production of the Falun Gong, and part of it is a message for “traditional” Chinese beliefs (at least according to Falun Gong) and against the Communists.
https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/
Ant, by the same token, how does the practice of secular humanism inform or influence NBC’s coverage?
The swastika has been a traditional Buddhist symbol for millennia. Long before the Nazi’s appeared on the scene.
Epoch Times does publish some quite useful articles, whereas NBC news is nearly worthless
If you want to stop this kind of journalism, you give the names of the reporters in that first sentence and keep naming them by whoever asked which question.
You should expose them and shame them by name.
Yes, but this movement started in the early 90’s, per Wikipedia.
Why would a modern organization drudge up such a world-wide symbol of repression? If they’re trying to reclaim it, they’re swimming against a fierce tide.
It isn't a world wide symbol of oppression, unless it is shown in the context of the NAZI Party, or those remaining idiots who espouse that kind of idea. In Asia the shape is associated with ancient religious symbols.
See the Wikipedia article on the topic for a basic overview.
There is no reason for millions, or maybe even billions of people in Asia to give up a symbol of religious significance just because some evil tyrants stole it from them and used it.
I live in Canberra. There is a US Embassy, there is a Chinese Red Army Embassy. There are lots of national Embassies, High Commissions, Consulates, foreign language schools and international friendship societies... but of all these only the Red Army Embassy has a continuing protest at its driveway. Sometimes the Tibetans join in. Sometimes it is one person, sometimes it is five, on weekends it is more. They know they are being video taped.
I have lived here 12 years now and first photographed the protesters in about 2009, and still it goes on.
I have been there and chatted to see what “the longest protest ever” has to say. OMG. The smuggled documents and photos of victims of organ harvesting and the forced labour camps/gulags... it is inhuman, it is as evil and vile. And its the same for Christians under the Red Army. Yet we walk into big box stores like Walmart and Lowes etc and buy MIC products by the millions.
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Falun is the word for their quasi-buddhist symbol, referencing balance and reincarnation and it appears to be a swastiker. Uh huh. When they talk about Tradition they are talking very old Chinese traditions. Kharma and caste; if you are a slave, serf or other untouchable and join in a war on behalf on the Emperor-God and prosperous priesthood caste, you will likely “return” in a higher caste. I think the Pharaohs and Sultans also maintained power for centuries using the reincarnation promise.
And I also think a leader who believes in reincarnation (and btw that babes who are cleanest in kharma terms will “return to the Godhead” when they are sacrificed)(which was still going on in Tantric Hinduism very late in the twentieth century) will be the one most likely to start a nuclear war to end all wars.
If Falun Gung is ever victorious in Red Army China... that’s 1400 million people we are talking about -1.4 billion at the moment. Just saying.
The Munich Putsch inner sanctum and rich industrialist types were well versed in ancient Aryans through the esoteric mumbo-jumbo hawked around the European nobility by Madame Blatavsky if I recall. I read a thick Christian text from the late 19th Century that attacked her movement and Darwinism as being the greatest threat to western civilisation and a sign of the endtimes.
The left-facing swastika was a Buddhist symbol long before the Nazis appropriated it and turned it the other way.
A swastika still marks Buddhist temples on maps you use in Asia.
Well, FWIW, Shen Yun has produced more beauty than the Chinese Communist Party. I’d go again.
I’ve never been able to go. My friends liked it.
Bump
“Why would a modern organization drudge up such a world-wide symbol of repression?”
You’re ignorant.
It a Buddhist symbol that predates Nazis by thousands of years.
It’s everywhere in Asia and has been for centuries.
The swastika means Dharma.
You can also find the swastika symbol on tombstones in So. Vietnam if the Communists haven’t destroyed them (the reds have leveled may SVN, esp. ARVN cemeteries over the past 40+ years. (The SVNese took care of cemeteries no matter who were buried in them. I saw one such cemetery in the Mekong Delta tended by a woman who had a small foods store in her house, which was right next to the cemetery, which had at least o ne communist grave from the 1920’s. She and her husband took care of it.
The husband were written up in a NY Times article in either last Oct. or early Nov. 1970 b Ralph Blumenthal, a leftist writer, the same week I was there interviewing the man’s wife.
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