Several Hundred Show Their Naïveté
Case in point from the other day.
The People's Republic of China has used the Olympics as a political event from their first opportunity, refusing to attend the 1956 Helsinki Olympics. The criticism that the Olympics shouldn't be a political event rings hollow when it comes from Mainland Chinese. Sorry, but history is on my side.
Today, a crowd of PRC citizens protested the Dalai Lama (something that they cannot do in their home country) at my alma mater.
They didn't come across well. They looked more like tools of the Chinese Communist Party. Sad for them.
Several hundred protest Dalai Lama at UW
Protester Shufu Xe, a systems analyst at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, said the Dalai Lama's message has been distorted by the Western media. "I like some of his ideas about nonviolence. But I think he is behind some of the violence in Tibet," Xe said. "I don't like that he's using the Olympics to promote his political agenda." Xe, like many of the protesters, was born in China. He moved to the U.S. seven years ago.
Touché.