转贴一篇,供大家思考:
Just some thoughts for your reference:
1. I am afraid that the movement now is too pro-Olympic, which can backfire, or has already backfired in some extent. What if some elites in the Chinese government decide to sell Tibet for the sake of Olympics (以西藏问题国际化换取西方对奥运的支 持)? Given the news about CCP contact with Dalai Lama a few days ago, this is a real danger. How should the movement respond then? Seems that we are already in a corner. Most overseas Chinese join the protest not because we like the Olympics so much (it is just a game which has been blown way out of proportion), but because we don't like the west using it to blackmail China--this is our real intention, not the Olympics, time to remember that. Say, if one can only choose one between"避免西藏问题国际化" and "奥运顺利召开", I bet many overseas Chinese would choose the former instead of the latter. Also, "西藏问题国际化" is the real goal of the west, and Olympics is only their tool of blackmailing. If the Chinese government would make any concessions on Tibet issue for the sake of Olympics, more blackmail are waiting in the pipeline. On the other hand, if Chinese people or government make it clear to the west that we cannot be blackmailed, even if that means we have to give up Olympics, it would be much harder for the west to play their little game. Like the old Chinese saying "无欲则刚"。
Also, if you read BBS within China, many people are disgusted by the Olympic frenzy engineered by the government propaganda--with good reasons, China faces many internal problems, the Olympic frenzy is used to cover up these problems. If the movement wants to gain real support within China, we need to distance ourselves from the Olympic propaganda by the government.
So I think it is high time for the movement to play down (淡化) the Olympics theme. After all, this is a “love China” movement, not a "love Olympics" movement.
2. If we play down the Olympics theme, we need to find something other than "none politicization of the Olympics" as the moral high ground, and there are plenty of themes we can choose, like
"Against Racial Stereotype"--referring to CNN Caffrey's comments and the whole China-bashing media campaign
"Against Racial Violence"--regarding 3/14 riots, good opportunity to expose what really happened on 3/14, and reveal "Free Tibet" is really a racist movement thinly disguised as "human right" or Tibetan nationalism.
"False information leads to faulty wars", "Peace in Tibet instead of Violence Under the Banner of Human Right", again, expose faulty report by western media, reveal the similarity between the "free Tibet" and "free Iraq" campaign, expose Dalai Lama's long standing relationship with CIA, gain the moral high ground and gain support from the huge "anti-war" audience in US.
If we do it right, all these themes have the potential to gain more sympathy among the western audience than the Olympics theme. For example, for those in California who are organizing to vote against Nancy Pelosi, our message is simple and clear: we support Cindy Sheehan because we totally support her “anti war” platform; we are against the hypocritic Nancy Pelosi because we don’t want what is happening to Iraq now ever happen to Tibet.