Chinese Student Blasted for Commencement Speech
Shelley shares with us some deep insights into why the Chinese Internet went nuts over what this girl said in her commencement speech at the University of Maryland.
—Chris
Chinese Student Blasted for Commencement Speech | China Uncensored (YouTube)
Comments (8)
What Shelley said was true in regard to the nationalistic attitude of Chinese. It is widely known that Chinese have "glass hearts".
Hi Chris and Shelly. I just became a Patreon supporter two weeks ago. Keep up the good work! Has there been any official statement from the University of Maryland admins defending her speech? I feel concern for her and her family's safety, and , if UMaryland has not acted yet, I was wondering if there was something we could do to demand that U. Maryland act to defend her?
Thanks for the support! The University of Maryland did respond and they did not apologize! Here's what they said <a href="https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/university-statement-regarding-2017-student-commencement-speaker" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/university-statement-regarding-2017-student-commencement-speaker</a>
Hi Chris and Shelly. Great video. I really like the differentiation that the complaint was about saying there is air pollution in China rather than about the lack of free speech. I totally did not expect that. On a different topic -- would you care to give your estimate about how much of the critical flame war on you channel's comment section comes from Chinese individuals expressing their sincere opposition opinion versus people working in CCP-sponsored troll farms trying to influence public opinion by expressing CCP approved opinions?
Well, surely anyone expressing a negative opinion about China Uncensored must be a CCP-paid troll... But seriously, you actually brought up an interesting question. I've been doing research about Chinese nationalistic social media commenters, and it seems many of them do not have any direct connection to the government; but it's likely that their extreme attitudes are influenced by a nationalistic and anti-American education. So is this their *sincere* opinion? It's hard to say.
So if they have the great firewall. How are they able to see USA content?
Yeah, it's weird that Xinhua did a one-hour live broadcast on platforms (Twitter, Periscope) that are blocked in China.
China is a hell hole with a very nice skin made of PR and falsified GDP numbers. The people of China deserve better than this and I will continue to kick China the Country in the ribs until the Chinese people are able to build a better and actually respectable country from the ashes of the soon (relative to history) to be defunct CPC China. I guess until then I'll just have to pray for the Chinese people.