The members of Falun Gong,
Falun Gong is good. Why? It is because we are the victims.
Falun Gong is right. Why? It is because we are the victims.
Falun Gong can’t get criticized? Why? It is because we are the victims.
If you criticize Falun Gong, your speech must be a hateful speech. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We, the members of Falun Gong, can be arrogant and rude. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We can force others to accept our advertisement. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We can violate others’ rights. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We can offend others. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We can arrogantly judge others and rule others. Why? It is because we are the victims.
We act as if we were the master of the universe. Why? It is because we are the victims.
Because we are the victim, we can be so arrogant, so rude and so vicious.
Facts? Truth? Fairness? Justice? We hold all of these, because we are the victims.
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Remark 1
How did I get to know Falun Gong?
(Although Falun Gong is just an example of my theory, instead of being interested in Han Chinese, most of the readers are interested in the information about Falun Gong much much more. And I want to talk a little more about it.)
Scientists can’t explain all of the phenomena.
I didn’t know what Falun Gong was until 1990s. I had two classmates who were the fans of Falun Gong. They tried to explain anything by citing Falun Gong theory. And one of them argued with a teacher in class. His main point of view was that scientists failed to explain everything in the world, and it meant physics failed, and some new theory was needed. Another classmate asked, “Since you said your theory could be used to explain everything, can you know what I am thinking?” That Falun Gong classmate answered, “I know you are thinking that I can’t know what you are thinking.” Another Falun Gong fan shared a room with us. I didn’t know what his theory was exactly. But I knew he had never been wrong. He just couldn’t be wrong. He was right and more than right. He was arrogant and inconsiderate. He could ask for anything and treat others in anyway, and he was not wrong. But if others behaved in the same way, others were seriously wrong. No matter what conflict he was in with others, others were wrong, he was right, despite he behaved unfairly and against his own values. And he’s the ruler of the room. He could poke his nose into others’ business and could force others to obey his rule by threatening to use force. He just confused me a lot. How could he behave against his own theory and so inconsistent?
Years later, I went to a university. There’s a place for Falun Gong practitioners to practice their Gong. They listened to Falun Gong music and danced. I knew one of them, a young man teaching engineering in that University. One day when we went to class, we accidentally started to talk about Falun Gong. It gave him a chance to give a long speech, though I was the only audience. His main point of view was the same as that I heard before. Physics failed. We needed a new theory to explain the world and guide our life. And in the end, he stated that physics more than failed, it made our life painful. We needed another way of life. I couldn’t argue with him. What I could do was to smile. After all, I thought he should have the right of speech freedom, though it was in china, under the communist regime. He saw me smiling and he knew I didn’t agree with him. He then despised me, “Young!” (Han Chinese think young means inferior.)
Defending freedom
On April 25th, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong members surrounded Zhongnanhai practicing their Gong. They explained that they just wanted to practice their Gong, nothing else. It confused me further. USA is the defender of freedom in the world. Can American government accept 10,000 members of some group sitting and surrounding White House to practice some sports for their health? If they wanted to fight against the communist regime, why did they say they just practiced their Gong? If they just wanted to practice their Gong, why did they surround Zhongnanhai?
I also heard that many Falun Gong members went to a TV station to protest. (That young teacher was among them and got caught to a custody.)
And later I heard that thousands of Falun Gong members went to a Press to protest an article written by He Zuoma. I got astonished. If Mr. He said something wrong in his article, I thought the right way to protest was to offer facts to disprove his point of view. Why did so many Falun Gong members go to that Press? Did it mean they would be right because they protested? Did it mean they would be right because they could show their numbers? And did Falun Gong members thought others had any right to comment or have different thoughts, even if the thoughts were wrong? If Falun Gong members wanted freedom, did they know others should also enjoy the same freedom as that themselves wanted? It was because of that event, I started to think that Falun Gong was another oppressive group. I couldn’t expect any freedom under a Falun Gong regime if they succeeded.
Fighting against the evil communist regime
Soon after the Zhongnanhai Dafa Practice, Falun Gong Group got banned in china. But we still directly “communicated” with Falun Gong. How? We could get fax from overseas Falun Gong Group. All of the contents in those faxes were anti communist regime or “truth telling” to tell others how cruel communists were, and some of them also advertised how good Falun Gong was. But why did Falun Gong members think we were in need of their fax? Why did they think we wanted to get their fax at midnight? Why did they think we needed their spam? Falun Gong fax became one of the most annoying spam faxes.
When I chatted on the interest, I also got a lot of spam information from Falun Gong members. Those Falun Gong members sent their information to me to interrupt the conversation. And it made me not be able to continue the conversation. Did Falun Gong members think it polite? Where’s my freedom of conversation on the internet? It made me to fear Falun Gong more than I feared communist regime. I could see police in internet cafes. But if Falun Gong ruled the country, could we enjoy more freedom of talking on the internet?
And, if you are really interested in Falun Gong, you would not forget the woman, who disrupted President Bush’s meeting communist president Hu. I know Falun Gong were fighting against communist regime, but didn’t they think there’s no better way to fight other than to disrupt others?
I must be a communist dog because I disagreed to what Falun Gong members did.
And I must be helping the communist regime to kill more Falun Gong members. I must be … (more words for Falun Gong members to define me, or to explain me, or to describe me.)
Truth, Kindness, Tolerance
Falun Gong’s trademark, “Truthfulness, Kindness (compassion), Tolerance”. But how true? How kind? How tolerant? It’s amazing to see themselves opposite to their own slogan!
Sentencing Jiang Zemin to death
Jiang Zemin was sentenced to death in the name of God according to one of the posts on Falun Gong website. So, the victim sentenced the offender to death. The victim is the judge. The victim judge sentenced the offender. Victim? I see them the ruler. The ruler victim?
And the death sentence in the name of God?
And I remember their slogan of “Truthfulness, Kindness, Tolerance”. Tolerance?
So terrible!
Hypocrisy, Double-standards, and One-sided
If you disagree with Falun Gong, Falun Gong members or practitioners think you must be hateful, intolerant, and virulent, and you must be smearing, slandering, and helping the communist regime prosecute them and deceiving others. Why? Because they are the victims. But are Falun Gong members or practitioners extremely intolerant, hateful, and smearing others to make others the victims of them the “victims”? And they are killing their killers in the name of the Gods in their imaginations. What if they were really in power one day? How hypocritical those “victims” are! How vicious those “victims” are! They talk about justice, but everything is one-sided there. They never need to examine themselves.
Strengthening the communist regime
Falun Gong has been fighting against communist regime. It’s the fact. And another fact is that communist regime has never been as “popular” as it today since the end of 1970s. Why? One of the reasons is that Falun Gong scared many. Chinese have to choose between communist regime and the possible Falun Gong regime (or possibly Chinese democracy movement regime, or Confucianism regime). Chinese have to think what life they would have to live under a possible Falun Gong regime. And they have to support communist regime (willingly or reluctantly) to avoid the worse one.
Remark 2
I don’t think my words can make Falun Gong members suffer more. But I really worry about my own life if I have to live under a Falun Gong regime, because of my own experience.
“No Chinaman is good!”
How does the world comment on Han Chinese?
Usually, the foreign researchers in universities got good impression on China, because they got very limited experience. They think Chinese are friendly and china is beautiful.
Most of the foreigners from the countries out of Eastern Asia, if they are doing business with Han Chinese, and if they are just getting to know Han Chinese, would comment, “Some of Chinese are very good.” “I think most of Chinese are good.” “Chinese are not as bad as what our government warned us at all. They (their government) told lies!” “China is very good!”(thumb up) “How can I become a Chinese citizen?”
But, after they got to know Han Chinese more, some of them would say, “Chinese are poorly qualified.” “They are irresponsible.” “We got taught lessons. We can’t trust them(Chinese) any more.” “We have to be very cautious to do business with them(Chinese).”
Those journalists or sociologists would make more negative comments. But instead of criticizing Han Chinese people, they would rather attack the communist regime.
Western tourists would make more negative comments on Chinese people, “They charge us 10 times higher than they charge Chinese.” “The service is so different from what they introduced.”
The people living in the South Eastern Asia or North Eastern Asia would call Han Chinese “Chinaman” or “Chinapig!” because they have known Han Chinese for a long time and know well.
All of the “mature” Han Chinese immigrants (overseas Han Chinese) comment on Han Chinese, “No Chinaman is good.”
All of the “mature” Han Chinese (living in china, Taiwan, or Hong Kong) would say, “Don’t trust them(Han Chinese)! They are the most virulent.” And themselves are also Han Chinese, and get alerted to by other Han Chinese.
The comments by different people are so diverse. But usually, people who know Han Chinese more make more negative comments.
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* The above is based on my personal experience. I didn’t do a social statistics.
** “mature” means knowing or experiencing Han Chinese well enough.