Piss off now, asshole. Mama’s calling to change your fucking diaper.

This so-called conversation is over. Engage me again and you will get nothing but base insults.

Now, in all seriousness, fuck off home, you piece of supercilious shit.

By the way, how many wumao people do you think are actually reading/writing in English on BeijingCream? It’s absolutely absurd, and quite narcissistic really to think that the Chinese government is paying agents to try and persuade idiots like us.

You write with such conviction (read: pretension), but actually your tired ideas I’ve heard many times at 2 am from 20-year-old exchange students at Butterfly in Sanlitun. Anyone who has read the back cover of 1984 would reach the conclusions that you do, and feel really good about them, too.

To be honest, I’ve taken what you’ve written here to heart, and you are obviously intelligent, but so many of your comments (or replies to me, anyway) stink of reactionary thinking bubbling up from a surface-level understanding. The Chinese government is really, really easy to hate, so it’s no wonder that people such as myself who aren’t on full-hate mode at all times get criticized and bullied. As I pointed out before, if you can’t see the irony in that, I don’t know what else to tell you.

Or as Mo Yan himself put it:

“Mo: I am reminded of the rituals of repetition in the Cultural Revolution. If I decide to speak, then nobody will stop me. If I decide not to speak, then not even a knife at my neck will make me speak.”

By the way, regarding his “defense” of the Party – I think what I he means to say is that the Party of today was not the Party of the Cultural Revolution – except in name, in that it has improved and adapted greatly.

And then you decided that DVD’s childish taunts were witty, and that pushed me over the edge. That’s when I decided to call you out.

What’s not to understand? You act like a wumao, and so people call you a wumao. I don’t know or care if you really are, but damn you sure love to use their moves, again and again.

Even your snark above is hackish. Is it not obvious that a movement that swept the entire nation and involved basically every single party member and party official necessarily implicates the party itself? And yet, you snark that I must be an expert for this amazing insight into the CR.

You just go ahead and do what you want man. There are times where the western media makes mistakes, lord knows I have no love for the media back in the states, they are a bunch of simpletons. There are also areas of valid disagreement. People who first arrive here tend to want to empathize with China, even with the Chinese government, I know I did, for probably the first 3+ years.

But you shouldn’t be surprised when certain actions lead to certain consequences.

You may go back to defending Chinese brutality and tonguing DVD’s butt crack.

Run along now!

Second, the entire event started as a power struggle within the party, which had and has no limitations or systems to control these struggles.

Party hacks love to criticize corrupt officials while leaving the party blameless. Then the party can make more corrupt leaders…its a vicious cycle. The problems have to be blamed on the weakness of individuals, otherwise it would become obvious that corruption is a feature not a bug.