Mail vs China

Timbo · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:40 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... males.html

I think I hear the distant clip-clopping of a DM hobby-horse on the horizon with this one.

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All kinds of speculation is now seething about what might happen; a war to cull the surplus males, a rise in crime, a huge expansion in the prostitution that is already a major industry in every Chinese city, a rise in homosexuality.

All in all, it's a highly anecodotal and lurid article about a very real and sensitive issue. In many ways a surprising departure from the usual siege mentality. I don't see the DM going to all this trouble unless they were bed-making for a lot more exposure in coming months about China. I'll wager the majority include words like 'dissident' and 'propaganda'.

The sign-off says it all, really:

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Whatever we have been used to and thought of as normal is coming to an end.

Oooh, and bonus points for the first person to spot the phrase 'yellow peril' in the comments :lol:

mr_wonderful · **Joined:** Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:56 pm **Posts:** 515

I thought China was in vogue after they executed that British guy without a fair trial.

Proper justice over there apparently.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:54 pm

I'm surprised this blatantly racist comment got in (although not surprised it's 377 in the green) - have reported it.

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Horrible country, brutal people still rooted in the distant past.

What do you expect?
- Greg, The south coast., 11/4/2010 10:32
Click to rate Rating 377

Also, what's Hitchens pointing at in this photo?!

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:07 pm

Fflaps wrote:

I'm surprised this blatantly racist comment got in (although not surprised it's 377 in the green) - have reported it.

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Horrible country, brutal people still rooted in the distant past.

What do you expect?
- Greg, The south coast., 11/4/2010 10:32
Click to rate Rating 377

Greg was referring to the English Home Counties.

Fflaps wrote:

Also, what's Hitchens pointing at in this photo?!

The kid has engraved a crude picture of a cock into his desk. It's a universal and timeless rite of passage, and, as such, Hitchens is rightly pointing it out as something the PC so-called guardians of Human Rights would like to ban.

tc-obo · **Posted:** Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:58 pm

You know, I don't think that's a bad article. Hitchens is always far better when he's on the foreign service - he wrote a pretty decent article about homelessness in Japan a while ago too.

Timbo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:51 am

BREAKING NEWS!: Gifted children are apparently pushed hard before they compete in international competition. China are, of course, the only country that do this:

Forging of the Mandarin mermaid: David Jones reveals how children are taken from their families and brutalised into future Olympians
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pians.html

Winning at all costs: A child we don't know anything about, taken out of context pulling a face doing exercise

The article is very heavy on the usual sinophobic rhetoric. Those worldly-wise Mailites are lapping it up in the comments, having decided that China = Even worse than Nu Labour:

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i wonder how many of these little girls have died during the past years from this treatment. we will never know. and stop saying this happens everywhere. i can guarantee that little girls are not dragged out of kindergarten in the u.s. or uk and made to live away from their families for years on end to train, without the parents agreeing to it. BIG difference. they may have harsh training, but it is the parents and hopefully the child's choice in the western world.
- raven, proud to be in the u.s.a., 31/7/2012 6:54

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:23 am

Raven can't have read any of the Mail's numerous articles about Toddlers and tiaras.

Timbo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:30 am

DMReporter on Twitter sums it up better than I could:

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NON-RACIST OLYMPIC COVERAGE: Robotic foreign Chinese devils force orphaned children to win gold for evil communist overlords (stock photos).

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:09 pm

But I thought the Mailites approved of hitting children. Isn't supposed to be essential to their upbringing?

Giant f*cking Sudoku · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:28 pm

Fflaps wrote:

"I may be a staunch anti-communist, but you wouldn't believe how cheap these kids can syndicate my columns for me"

On topic, the Mail are pushing this thing pretty hard, with terms like 'Mandarin Mermaid' and 'torpedo'. The usual Janus style approach, as they've had plenty of articles this year covering Chinese death row procedures, with the not-so-subtle implication that 'this is how we could cull a few chavs'.
I don't think it's necessarily racist to say China has some brutal practices, and serious human rights issues, but for sure, a country like America is in no position to lecture them, and we'd look pretty silly these days if we starting rattling our rusty old sabre at them. They have to sort their own house out, as do we.

Safe_Timber_Man · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:13 am **Posts:** 723

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181604/Spine-chilling-video-captures-Chinese-restaurant-owner-torturing-tiny-kittens-flinging-air-choking-tugging-limbs.html

Spine-chilling video captures Chinese take-out owner torturing tiny kittens simply for twisted pleasure

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China have totally sold out, everything is a commodity. Makes Chinese people seem heartless, soulless & there actions are a reflection of their restrictive,dictatorship state
- timmy, time

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Who's to say these poor animals weren't intended for the pot? The Chinese eat anything that moves. Hope he does time for this and the family business goes under. Justice would be done. ps Lovely mum cat! Looks like a Bengal..
- Boudicca, Hants

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i am surprised they have an animal protection agency over there with all the atrocities we hear about everyday coming from China- dogs set on fire, kittens being tortured, babies being left to die in bins or buried alive on a daily basis! 10,000 cases a day but that's only the reported ones. people like him should not be given a second chance- what kind of mentally disturbed person takes pleasure in watching another being suffer? i am sick of it.
- FrenchGirl, MK, 01/8/2012 09:12

It's working, Daily Mail. You must be so proud.

Cyclist · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:42 am

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i am surprised they have an animal protection agency over there with all the atrocities we hear about everyday coming from China- dogs set on fire, kittens being tortured, babies being left to die in bins or buried alive on a daily basis! 10,000 cases a day but that's only the reported ones. people like him should not be given a second chance- what kind of mentally disturbed person takes pleasure in watching another being suffer? i am sick of it.
- FrenchGirl, MK, 01/8/2012 09:12

Answer: Your average Mailite, providing the other being is unemployed, disabled, forrin, muslim, "fat", young, gay, etc etc.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:27 pm

Look out for follow up stories about Chinese people binding feet, eating birds nests and subjecting people to the wire jacket.

Herge was debunking crap like this back in the 1930s.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:57 pm

The Standard is typically Mailite on its front page. "Chinese match fixing" or something. South Koreans did it too, didn't they?

Paul · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:17 pm

Genetically modified athletes: Forget drugs. There are even suggestions some Chinese athletes' genes are altered to make them stronger

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z22M4vtHWr

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