I've never looked into this... until someone told me today about a story her friend told her about a friend who used to work as a nurse in china. Apparently nurses in Chinese hospital are (or at least were until recently? I don't have anyway of finding out wether this is past tense or present tense) made to murder, by strangulation, the second baby born to any mother. If they refuse to do this they risk loosing their job. It is all hushed up.
"in September 1997, the World Health Organization's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific issued a report claiming that "more than 50 million women were estimated to be 'missing' in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child."
culture dictates that when a girl marries she leaves her family and becomes part of her husband's family. For this reason Chinese peasants have for many centuries wanted a son to ensure there is someone to look after them in their old age -- having a boy child is the best pension a Chinese peasant can get. Baby girls are even called "maggots in the rice" ... ("The Dying Rooms Trust")
This info was taken from here: http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
Now if I am to understand the situation, I know its very complex, and I say this at the risk of being arbitrary and naive, but it appears to me like the thirst for money, economic development and the health of the countries GDP (AKA capitalism) is responsible for the worst genocide in human history and its happening right now and we are part of the silent hand pressing the button, displacing resources and ethics and morality and 'freedoms' from others to fill ourselves with more fast food and distraction.
6 million Jews were killed horribly in the second world war, an atrocity I struggle to comprehend.
50 fucking million baby girls that should currently be alive are 'missing' as of 1997...
there are 111 million more men in China than there are women, half that and you get about 50 million so the numbers add up...
Seriously: Fuck you Ayn Rand.
how do you see this as based on ayn rand?
ReplyDeleteI thought someone would call me on that: I don't know, as in "Fuck you Ayn Rand for helping to perpetuate a mentality/philosophy where personal gain was out ahead of anything else, where "Moral cowardice is the necessary consequence of discarding morality as inconsequential.". How she 'refused to feel guilt for her own existence'. Thats what I mean by Fuck you Ayn Rand, she is representative of this displaced pain that money and financial security has had such a large hand in.
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