tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post4048995352154195402..comments2023-10-06T18:55:46.317+08:00Comments on That's Impossible! Politics from Taiwan: Laundry list of sins阿牛http://www.blogger.com/profile/08403972286057197709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-26784166153111567882009-04-23T12:59:00.000+08:002009-04-23T12:59:00.000+08:00cool link there Luby!
I also think the CKS hall c...cool link there Luby!<br /><br />I also think the CKS hall could remain open in some form. I liked it with the democratization display along side with kites. That was pretty cool.阿牛https://www.blogger.com/profile/08403972286057197709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-37507035597147527662009-04-23T08:46:00.000+08:002009-04-23T08:46:00.000+08:00I wrote a comment at:
How to publicize KMT's crim...I wrote a comment at:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://comp-lite.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-publicize-kmts-crimes-against.html" REL="nofollow">How to publicize KMT's crimes against humanity?</A>Luby Liaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05171501366127597136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-33365731598602811832009-04-21T11:22:00.000+08:002009-04-21T11:22:00.000+08:00"It was a sick joke to associate Chiang Kai-Shek's..."It was a sick joke to associate Chiang Kai-Shek's memorial with democracy."<br /><br />This kind of misses the point. I have never liked the name "Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall" either. I have always thought the name changing went on too hastily and that it is fair to criticise the DPP for the hurried way in which the deed was done. <br /><br />However, the facts remain that this memorial is the centrepiece of Taipei, and that the memorial in its current form does glorify the rule of a dictator who put the island through much hardship. At the very least, I think the Ma government should have consulted the public before changing the name back to the original one by fiat and come up with a name that could please everyone. This would have shown that his party had truly turned a page and was ready to accept the diversity of opinions in modern Taiwan. But the name was simply changed back, revealing the hypocrisy of his administration, which had so criticised the DPP for supporting a hasty name change a few months earlier. <br /><br />Carlos, Franco was Spanish, and his rule undoubtedly burdened many Spaniards of his time. CKS was a foreigner who brought a band of foreign invaders into Taiwan and who subjugated the local population for decades. So by willingly restoring the name of the hall and opening wide the doors without consulting the public, Ma patched the foundations of more than just the reputation of a historical icon. He reinforced the KMT-enforced ethnic division that has scarred Taiwan for half a century. This too was hypocritical. Didn't Ma campaign on a platform of healing Taiwan's ethnic divisions?Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552370490869601403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-84217473553123270212009-04-20T14:41:00.000+08:002009-04-20T14:41:00.000+08:00I'm actually okay with changing the name of the Ta...I'm actually okay with changing the name of the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall back. It was a sick joke to associate Chiang Kai-Shek's memorial with democracy.<br /><br />My other half is Spanish, and they have a remarkably similar history up to 1975. Franco had a grandiose mausoleum built for himself (by political prisoners, as the story goes). Spanish people see it for what it is and visit it either out of morbid curiosity (it's supposed to be quite fancy), or because they're avowed fascists.<br /><br />But restoring Chiang Kai-Shek's honor guard? That's scary, as well as the rest of your post.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13079284428870214896noreply@blogger.com