Tuesday, October 20, 2009

翻開華文報紙﹐看到一些社會裡為人垢病的事情時﹐總是能讀到這樣的論點﹕「外國也有這樣的事發生啊﹗」奇怪地﹐許多時候都是來自那些所謂愛國之士口裡。

自回歸後﹐在那些媚共的人領導下﹐社會一步一步進入反智的時代的同時﹐這一句說話亦成為了香港人最佳的武器。是進可攻﹐退可守的一種犀利武器。

其實﹐讓這樣的一句說話成為替社會垢病辯護的百搭論點﹐實在是我們的悲歌。

也完全證實了回歸後的香港是一個如何反智的社會。

「外國也有這樣的事發生啊﹗」這句說話根本不是什麼辯駁的點子。因為這裡面就沒有邏輯可言。沒有邏輯推論的根基﹐所有辯駁都不堪一擊。其實﹐那根本算不上是什麼辯駁。說是狡辯﹐也完完全全貶低了「狡」這一個字的意思。狡﹐也要有邏輯推論啊﹗

「外國也有這樣的事發生啊﹗」有什麼邏輯﹖

在香港﹐以至在中國﹐當有人發現社會上有許多人隨地吐痰﹐有許多人隨地丟垃圾﹐有許多商人貪污﹐有許多官員濫用職權從中獲取私利﹐有許多人遭政治逼害﹐似乎一句「外國也有這樣的事發生啊﹗」﹐就可以解釋了一切﹐便可以合理化一切。

難道就因為外國也這樣的事發生﹐所以我們也可以有這樣的事情發生麼﹖為什麼我們不可以做世界第一﹖做地球上唯一一個沒有人隨地吐痰﹐沒有人隨地丟垃圾﹐沒有商人貪污﹐沒有官員濫用職權從中獲取私利﹐沒有人遭政治逼害﹐沒有這種醜事發生的國家﹖

為什麼﹖是我們不配做世界上最好的國家﹖

更奇怪的是﹐那些經常用上這句仿似百搭的辯駁點子的人﹐卻不會用這一句來談論民主﹑來談論普選﹖

外國每個公民都能夠選自己的政府啊﹗

外國也有這樣的事發生啊﹗

2 comments:

Snowdrops said...

Exactly. This is the so-called "whataboutery" evasion tactic employed by CCP apologists whenever criticisms against the CCP government arise. When there is absolutely no defense left to obfuscate the fact that the CCP has perpetrated crimes against Chinese people, these w*nkers would bleat "But what about the US/UK?", usually with reference to the Iraq war. (Of course, the fact that they picked the easy strawman of the increasingly illiberal Anglo-Saxon regimes as a counterpoint to the CCP, rather than progressive social democratic governments in European countries, point to their moral cowardice also).

They miserably failed to understand that other governments' crimes and misdemeanours in NO WAY justify the Chinese government's crimes against its own people. Yet these people curiously proclaim that they are being "patriotic", even when it's clearly been shown that it's us Chinese people who are being mistreated by the CCP government. This psychotic mentality is a direct result of the brainwashing by the CCP such that one become to equate any criticism against the regime as a criticism against the country, in much the same way that Bush and co brainwashed the red-necks when he branded his own countrymen against his policies as those who are anti-American.

The sad thing is that the CCP apologists have upped their game and are even spouting these kind of nonsensical "arguments" in Western forums. Last June, around the time of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, I had the misfortunte to engage with precisely these kind of idiots online. Fact is, they could bluster and bully all they want, but they could not hide the fact that anyone with half a brain could see through their shameless evasions.

The Man Who Loves Everton said...

Snowdrops,

Thanks for sharing your experience in a forum.

Yes, it is very annoying when hear someone using that to justify something which is not acceptable to a normal decent man. I always wonder why can't China set an good example to others.

Patriot? What is patriot? In mainland china the one and only one legal political partys is always bigger than country. One has to love the party before one loves one's country. It is sad to see this happening in our country.

Brain-washing? Perhaps.