Posted on 05/16/2022 1:42:02 PM PDT by VAFreedom
A gunman in a deadly attack at a Southern California church was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate for Taiwanese people, authorities said.
The shooter killed Dr. John Cheng, 52, and wounded five others during a lunch held by Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which worships at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, authorities said at a Monday news conference.
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Man, with insight like that, no wonder they get the big bucks !
What’s needed is more bigotry. Back during segregation, you just made the disfavored person sit in the back of a bus or refused to serve them at a restaurant. Now, all that’s forbidden, so the only permitted expression of bigotry is to shoot people. Bring back the good old days!/just kidding
We’re (the Mrs. & I) are wondering what a China man was doing in CA miles away from LVNV. I suspect the luncheon was limited to locals and he was not “invited”.
That’s an interesting development.
This is sad.
I do think the United States should recognize Taiwan as a country. Our current arrangement is based on the expectation that the Taiwan issue would be resolved through peaceful means. That expectation has not been met.
In 2020, there were only 29 Asian / Pacific Islander / South Asian members at that church. Non-members...I don’t know.
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Racial/Ethnic: 2020
Asian / Pacific Islander / South Asian...29
Black / African American / African...5
Hispanic / Latino...3
Middle Eastern / North African...1
Multiracial...1
Native American / Alaska / Native Indigenous...0
White...229
Not getting the same outrage from keyboard warriors from big media like the attack in Buffalo
There are apparently 2 ‘churches’. One called Geneva and one called Taiwanese. This Taiwanese church had moved to Geneva from a Tustin church.
One report says 40-50 people at an after-worship luncheon in honor of departing Pastor Billy Chang.
Yeah, I saw that too late. This was a very personal killing for the Chinese.
Has anyone asked Nets owner Joseph Tsai for a comment?
They post those number publicly?
The article tries to make it all about “hate” and tensions between China and Taiwan, but if you read on down, there’s this:
Chou had been a pleasant man who used to own the Las Vegas apartment building where he lived, Balmore Orellana told The Associated Press.
But Orellana said Chou received a head injury and serious body injuries in an attack by a tenant and he sold the property. The neighbor said that last summer Chou fired a gun inside his apartment. No one was hurt but he was evicted.
Orellana says Chou’s mental ability seemed to diminish in recent months, he was angry that the government didn’t provide comfort in his retirement, and he may have been homeless.”
But “racial hatred” (even though Taiwan is 97% Han and Chou is a Han surname, so race does not come into it) and the China-Taiwan thing (already in the news) get people more worked up, get more clicks than just another case of untreated mental illness. One wonders if his family tried to get him help but could not.
Yup. Chinese violence abroad is well known.
Yes. It wasn’t hate against Taiwanese, per se, he was against Taiwan Independence.
Yes.
I figure he’s nuts and his anti-Taiwan pro-China beliefs were the motive.
Would he have done something so crazy if the events described hadn’t occurred?
Doesn’t matter.
And there is no reason to conclude that the portrait presented is 100% accurate either.
I assume his defense will play this up.
He was from Taiwan too. His family didn’t have to leave China and would be easy for him to migrate to instead of the first United States
I don’t know that you could call this guy a “Chinese nationalist” if you mean the CCP. The article stated:
Actually, Chiang Kai-shek’s US-backed Nationalists had to flee to Taiwan at that time when faced with defeat by Mao Zedong’s Communists (estimates range from one to two million people fled to Taiwan). Maybe there was an error in translation, or maybe the DA isn’t all that up on Chinese history, but “forcible removal” is an odd way to put it.
Chiang Kai-shek’s ROC seat of government had been moved to Taipei, and the Nationalist mainlanders predominately held government posts, etc. The mainlanders weren’t exactly loved, though. Sorry it’s the dreaded Wiki, but:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident
So his childhood there may not have been fun, but that doesn’t mean he’s pro-CCP and anti-ROC, just that his childhood there was during a nasty period.
Really, the news outlets trying to paint him as a CCP “nationalist” when his family was ROC and he was born on Taiwan... weird.
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