by spitthedog » Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:17 pm
Bongs,
Quote - ''Vague statistics''
Historically you could say waging wars against dogs was a political tool and scapegoat sometimes used by control freak Communist/Dictatorships to help keep the peasants in line. A subtle way to tighten your grip around the peoples throats without directly attacking them.
You can almost imagine the regimes discussing around a huge oak table - ''First we take their dogs to soften them up abit...''
2014;
BANGKOK — They slink through Chinese streets dropping poop like “land mines.” They are a blight on “social peace and harmony.”
Pet dogs, in the eyes of China’s Communist Party, are a modern-day menace. And the Chinese urbanites who’ve grown infatuated with Spot and Rover are acting out a “crude and ludicrous imitation ... of a Western lifestyle.”
So goes a recent op-ed in the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official news outlet.
The op-ed decries a “dog infestation” in China’s cities. Its urgent message to selfish dog owners: scoop those land mines or else....
The doggie denouncement coincides with a revived effort to stamp out certain Western beliefs and behaviors taking root in 21st-century China. Officials are taking aim at bigger perils to social harmony, including democracy, an obsession with “individual rights” and the “free flow of information on the internet.”
All three are explicitly condemned in an internal party report as serious threats to the party and to the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
The party memo, known as “Document 9,” was leaked late last year. It refers to an “ideological battlefield” in which Western notions of individual liberty and freedom of speech are used to “gouge an opening through which to infiltrate our ideology,” which prizes the “unification of thought” and social harmony.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-13/ ... ports-west
https://thenanfang.com/the-history-of-c ... campaigns/
Bongs,
Quote - ''Vague statistics''
Historically you could say waging wars against dogs was a political tool and scapegoat sometimes used by control freak Communist/Dictatorships to help keep the peasants in line. A subtle way to tighten your grip around the peoples throats without directly attacking them.
You can almost imagine the regimes discussing around a huge oak table - ''First we take their dogs to soften them up abit...''
2014;
[i]BANGKOK — They slink through Chinese streets dropping poop like “land mines.” They are a blight on “social peace and harmony.”
Pet dogs, in the eyes of China’s Communist Party, are a modern-day menace. And the Chinese urbanites who’ve grown infatuated with Spot and Rover are acting out a “crude and ludicrous imitation ... of a Western lifestyle.”
So goes a recent op-ed in the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official news outlet.
The op-ed decries a “dog infestation” in China’s cities. Its urgent message to selfish dog owners: scoop those land mines or else....
The doggie denouncement coincides with a revived effort to stamp out certain Western beliefs and behaviors taking root in 21st-century China. Officials are taking aim at bigger perils to social harmony, including democracy, an obsession with “individual rights” and the “free flow of information on the internet.”
All three are explicitly condemned in an internal party report as serious threats to the party and to the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
The party memo, known as “Document 9,” was leaked late last year. It refers to an “ideological battlefield” in which Western notions of individual liberty and freedom of speech are used to “gouge an opening through which to infiltrate our ideology,” which prizes the “unification of thought” and social harmony.[/i]
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-13/china-denounces-pet-dogs-filthy-imports-west
https://thenanfang.com/the-history-of-chinas-anti-dog-campaigns/