Laigle’s Forum

 the implicated Chinese corporations are denying any wrongdoing.

Why shouldn’t they?

Public attitudes tacitly declare the whole country a victim group.

I spent over a month in Shanghai about 10 years ago. Every time we would cross this one bridge, you could smell the rot from the river below. It was almost unbearable. Nothing was done to clean up the rivers and it was widely believed there were no living fish there.

Hence, the Chinese themselves are the primary victims of the West’s laissez-faire policies toward them. They are forced to live with what is probably the world’s dirtiest water and air. If the drafters of the Kyoto Protocol had wanted to be fair to both the West and to China, they would have included a clause requiring China to clean up its waters.

It’s really simple:
When you give a group the coveted status of “victim,” you not only
harm that group, you also empower them to hurt you.                                                        

Examples:
Giving illegal aliens a pass by offering them amnesty and a path to citizenship amounts to inviting many many more of them, and also terrorists, as shown by the latest terror case, the Fort Dix terror cell. Yet polls show that a growing number of Latinos are against illegal immigration because they see it as a threat to their own interests.
Crisis in June 2005, women who have had abortions are 30% more likely to report all symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, have a 2-6 fold higher suicide rate and an increased rate of pre-term births, placenta previa and breast cancer.

Further, no serious person seriously doubts any more that blacks are the biggest victim of welfare.

Accept my idea and nobody gets hurt.

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