I Grew Up in Communist China, Here’s My Warning to America

Epoch Times? Really? It's like a Radio Free Europe. Start reading something more serious for a change. OMG!

My mom, who grew up in Nazi Germany, told me that she was not allowed to turn the radio station to Radio Free Europe because the nazis would come and take all parties away.
Never to be seen again.

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For years, The Epoch Times was a small, low-budget newspaper with an anti-China slant that was handed out free on New York street corners. But in 2016 and 2017, the paper made two changes that transformed it into one of the country’s most powerful digital publishers.

The changes also paved the way for the publication, which is affiliated with the secretive and relatively obscure Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, to become a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation.

First, it embraced President Trump, treating him as an ally in Falun Gong’s scorched-earth fight against China’s ruling Communist Party, which banned the group two decades ago and has persecuted its members ever since. Its relatively staid coverage of U.S. politics became more partisan, with more articles explicitly supporting Mr. Trump and criticizing his opponents.

Around the same time, The Epoch Times bet big on another powerful American institution: Facebook. The publication and its affiliates employed a novel strategy that involved creating dozens of Facebook pages, filling them with feel-good videos and viral clickbait, and using them to sell subscriptions and drive traffic back to its partisan news coverage.


I bet that Diana Zhang writing for The Epoch Times does NOT exist as a real person she claims to be.

Yeah .. really.

My mom, who grew up in Nazi Germany, told me that she was not allowed to turn the radio station to Radio Free Europe because the nazis would come and take all parties away.
Never to be seen again.

It happened to my great grandfather.

Take your BS and stuff it you know where.

Grow up son before you get hurt real bad.

There isn’t so much a class issue as a right vs. left issue. Free speech isn’t censored randomly, the left censors republican thinking while republican thinking censors left thinking.

I bet that Diana Zhang writing for The Epoch Times does NOT exist as a real person she claims to be.

And never forget that Hitler and his regime were pretty much of the left, not right. That includes doing fey things like enacting laws for animal rights, adapting most of the principles of far-left Communism to the system, harassing and ultimately squeezing out Christianity (Hitler, however, admired Islam) and even de-funding the Wiemar-era German police in order to pave the way for Hitler's Brown Shirts.

When it comes to the left, there's nothing new under the sun.

Yeah .. really.

My mom, who grew up in Nazi Germany, told me that she was not allowed to turn the radio station to Radio Free Europe because the nazis would come and take all parties away.
Never to be seen again.

It happened to my great grandfather.

Take your BS and stuff it you know where.

Grow up son before you get hurt real bad.

I Grew Up in Communist China, Here’s My Warning to America

Diana Zhang
Epoch Times
November 24, 2020

Commentary

This year’s election had a historically high turnout.

Recently, many Americans haven’t cared so much about elections, thinking there ultimately wasn’t much difference between Republicans and Democrats, or between specific candidates.

However, with the approach of the 2020 election, many people became alarmed. They realized how far our country had strayed from its foundations. If we don’t take ownership now, they thought, it will be beyond repair.

The whole world is watching this election closely. Some Chinese have commented: “We thought China was going to become America. Instead, America is becoming China!”

It is so true. At this point, there are a lot of things we cannot say in America. Political correctness is not a matter of choice; it is a survival skill. If you say one word wrong, you can lose your job. If you don’t follow the mainstream narrative, you will get attacked by the mainstream media. It has reached such an extent that we should ask, do we still have freedom of speech?


This reminds me of China. Fifty years ago in communist China, if you made casual comments about the communists, you would end up in jail or a labor camp.

Someone who was at home and made one comment not in line with the CCP would be punished. A son would report on his father, a daughter on her mother, and a husband and wife on each other. Fear of the Communist Party, and indoctrination by it, had become a second human nature, pushing out natural feelings.

I immigrated to America more than 30 years ago. I always tell people, “America is the least discriminatory country in the whole world.” Yet we hear “discrimination” and “racism” daily in news reports. “Discrimination” and “racism” have become political weapons. They are no longer a matter of moral principle.

With so many protests and riots being organized in the name of fighting racism, the issue of race is now purposefully used to divide our society. In communist countries such as China and the former Soviet Union, the communists created division based on social class.

Communists always talk about class struggle. They claim that any inequality of wealth is because the wealthy exploit the working class. Communists use the working class to take down the middle and upper classes, until the country’s whole economy is destroyed.

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I am also from a Communist country of Vietnam and I can attest to OP. You guys just don't know how good you have in the US. Be careful of what you wish for!

Since when did Vietnam go completely communist? Last time I looked, Hanoi was the capital of North-Vietnam and Saigon the capital of South-Vietnam.

Left by the name only. First concentration camps on German territory were opened before WWII even started. Majority of people imprisoned there were German communists. Follow your thinking communists were RIGHT and Hitler was LEFT. Right?

But if she is, does her description of life under ultra-liberalism all that upsetting to you? Or upsetting not because you don't believe it, but because you resent her for not stroking and caressing your liberal feelings and leftwing narrative enough.

Epoch Times? Really? It's like a Radio Free Europe. Start reading something more serious for a change. OMG!

Breaking News!!!!!!!

China Sucks. I repeat, CHINA SUCKS. And so do democrats!

To recap....CHINA SUCKS. AND FURTHERMORE, XI LOOKS LIKE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PIG AND A BABOON FUCK!

Weather at the bottom of the hour!

Breaking News!!!!!!!

China Sucks. I repeat, CHINA SUCKS. And so do democrats!

To recap....CHINA SUCKS. AND FURTHERMORE, XI LOOKS LIKE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PIG AND A BABOON FUCK!

Weather at the bottom of the hour!

wow.. you seem to be shilling for socialism?

Epoch Times? Really? It's like a Radio Free Europe. Start reading something more serious for a change. OMG!

We are not like the ant peoples and never will be. The ccp are hive minded.
We are not and never will be like them in spite little groups like blm and antifa and their masters the corporate fascist globalist oligarchs pushing their malevolent agenda.
Not gonna happen...to many liberty minded Individuals and families.
Communism will fail once again trying to transform the greatest civilization the earth has ever known.