Video below is dedicated to Nathaniel Tan, a good man, who believes the answer to killing is not to arrest the killers.
Samples of reporting on the Urumqi race kill:
Washington Post by Ariana Eunjung Cha:
A few steps past the shattered glass, warped metal and other remains of a Muslim Uighur restaurant, Ye Erkeng and his family are in hiding.*
The more Chinese authorities try to stamp out protests by repressed ethnic minorities, the fiercer those protests grow.**
LA Times by David Pierson and Barbara Demick:
In many neighborhoods of Urumqi, there evidence of violence — shops and restaurants destroyed, a brand-new supermarket with all its windows smashed in. The remains of two Han-owned car dealerships, charred black with overturned sedans, faced directly onto a desperately poor, traditional Uighur neighborhood.***
- *The victim is now the Uyghur not the 156 dead.
- **Emphasis added: note the shared language between Nathaniel Tan (below) and the New York Times.
- ***Emphasis added: note the instigation stuck into a supposed impartial report.
In all the Western reports, they share common characteristics:
- There is neither mention of, nor focus on, the individual dead, of justice for their families, of destroyed lives and devastated businesses.
- Uyghurs who went around town killing others, burning homes and cars and looting shops acted in a “riot,” a “protest”, a “dissent”, anything but murder.
- Since there were no murders, but only a “riot”, the ultimate cause of the “riot” is the Han government, never the killer gangs.
- Since the Han government is the cause, all motivation for the riots are purely political. Since they are purely political, then the riots were an expression of legitimate dissent against oppression.
- Since the dissent is legitimate, nobody was killed; anybody who is dead is dead by chance, a casualty of history, of rebellion against Han rule – too bad, you, a Han, were at a bus stop when peaceful Uyghurs came by.
- All minorities are victims; all majority peoples are “heavy-handed violent” aggressors. Nobody in the West (or Malaysia) will say Urumqi is race kill so all say it is a political insurrection. To admit that it is ethnic gives away the game: minorities are not the victims, are not innocent, and the government was right to put down the Uyghur killers.
Throughout the above, note the inversion of the morality as exemplified in Nathaniel Tan’s remarks:
I hope the world pays more attention to this. I really hope the Chinese government stops this heavy handed violence against Muslim minorities. Mass arrests are not the answer.
Here are the moral inversions:
- Murder is innocent, not evil; no killing is intentional or, people are never killed in a race riot, they are dead by luck.
- Only the majority government is prone to be violent; all acts, including murder, by minorities, any minority, are guiltless.
Nathaniel Tan is on record of having served Anwar Ibrahim. He, of course, does not speak for Pakatan Rakyat or the Justice PKR party but his remarks reflect the underlying morality within PKR, shared also by Elizabeth Wong (recall her moral, “private” defense of the naked story?), Tian Chua, et al.
Their politics, once passed through their morality (above), produces the following: murder is innocent in a given circumstance, even justifiable; all governments are bad; all minorities, the working class, are good; all sources of morality is with the individual (the individual alone decide what is right and wrong), not culture, not group, not society, which is to infer that if a group killed somebody’s mother at a bus stop, you could argued your way to innocence.
It is not by coincidence that the PKR people like Nathaniel, et al, share politics in common with the Western liberal Left that dominate the media today (in Malaysia, Malaysiakini). Nathaniel, et al, picked up their morality from the West. So then, you can see, why in tone, in judgement, and in pronouncements, Nathaniel & Co are identical to the Western media.
Someone has said, freedom of the Press undermines democracy and undermines freedom. There is much truth in it.
Last note: If PKR, backed by their Western minders, come to power, be aware that all murder on the street and if they involve a town and a minority group, then they could be legitimate. At the least, there won’t be mass arrest. So stick with the horde (try Malaysia Today).
