Yue Yue: The Polite Disregard of Communism’s Inhumanity

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Yesterday in a discussion in comments on my previous post I expressed a stark difference between “politeness” and “consideration”. Politeness is a means by which civil control can be expected, imposed, or even demanded. Politeness can be used as a protection defense (step on the mean guy’s toe and immediately you apologize) or an offensive weapon (“killing with kindness” … calmly saying “thank you” when you’re really saying something else inside your head). Consideration is an individual responsibility involving a private and personal thought process that regards individual human relationships, the quality of interaction and communication, and the end results therein.

Historically, when Communism has taken over a society a politeness has been imposed by the state. No one is to speak out against the government, resist, or even leave without penalty of physical punishment, imprisonment, and even death … or, at the very least, re-education using the previous three mentioned as tools to remove the personal and private thought process and feelings of the individual. Cuba’s repression through street beatings of innocent and unarmed women, and imprisonment and beatings of those who refuse to accept the apartheid. The Killing Fields outside the re-education camps of the Khmer Rouge. North Korea’s imprisoning and starvation of its people. And then there is China…

If you saw the 1987 movie “The Last Emperor” you saw the transformation of China into The People’s Republic of China, the Communist state. It follows the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China from opulence and complete accommodation from a staff and country that afforded the imposed politeness to his rule, to Puyi’s years-long imprisonment in a Communist re-education facility until he (and the entire country) submitted to their every demand and was released into the coldly and cruelly polite Communist Chinese society. Decades and decades later China has become the perfect definition of all Communism is intended to be.

In the last ten years I have seen raw videos of violent cruelty of terrorist ideologies and Sharia Law punishments. All have been horrific and unacceptable in a civilization, most especially in a 21st century world. However, the video of a two year old Chinese girl wandering into a street and being run over multiple times by two trucks and the following footage leaves me breathless. As she lay broken, smashed, bleeding, and at one point struggling in the street the security camera video shows over a dozen people walking by her, barely giving her a glance as they passed, showing no concern. Humanity reduced to roadkill. Some speculate it is partly the Chinese devaluation of female babies/children in a society/government imposed one child rule added to the polite disregard of a helpless female toddler smashed into the pavement of a public thoroughfare not much wider than an alley where humans were parading through during a normal business day. It is the most perfect Communist de-humanization success I have ever seen. Finally one person sees the motionless baby and drags her out of the middle of the street and walks away. A moment later her mother appears and carries the limp baby away (Full graphic video) …

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But what I find even more disturbing, if possible, is the Chinese government’s reaction in the wake of the growing international attention to this:

Civilization office of Foshan’s Nanhai district on Monday presented 10,000 yuan ($1,570) to Chen Xianmei, a rubbish collector who offered aid to Yue Yue after the incident happened, as a reward for her kind deed, China Daily reported.

Meanwhile, a company in Foshan said that they will donate 50,000 yuan to Yue Yue’s family and the rescuer respectively.

“Besides the reward, we would like to offer Chen a job with stable income so as to encourage this kind of activity,” said an anonymous assistant manager at the company.

Got it? The government is not only dictating what is acceptable civilized and human behavior, but rewarding the woman who dragged the dying baby out of the road. Can you imagine?!? The people of China have to be rewarded for doing something that you or I would have instinctually and frantically done … and MORE?? But why is this a big deal? Once again it goes back to the results of the Communist government’s previous actions:

The most popular regional paper The NanFang Daily wrote an editorial about “gathering the scraps of China’s conscience.”

With the introspection comes who or what to blame for the degradation of “Chinese morality” and there seems to be a consensus about the perceived source of the current state of apathy. One netizen wrote, “Don’t blame the passersby; it was a Nanjing judge that killed this little girl.” […]*

The “Nanjing judge” refers to an infamous 2006 incident where a young man named Peng Yu went to the aid of an elderly woman who had fallen down on the street in the eastern city of Nanjing. At the woman’s request, Peng helped take her to the hospital only to have the woman turn around and accuse him for being the person who knocked her down. A Nanjing judge then ruled that “common sense” suggested that Peng only took the woman to the hospital because he was guilty and ordered him to pay her medical expenses.

* Last I read the toddler was still barely alive in a hospital.

Someone in comments on the ABC News link cautions not to blame the Chinese government for what the individuals did (didn’t do). The person making the comment fails to realize there is no individualism in the fearful collective of Communism. No humanity. It is the ultimate success of the previous generations’ Communist re-education. Other Communist countries must be envious…

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Cross-posted @ CW

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