Harry Potter Banned in China .... to promote better morals?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:17 pm

Read it Here

This is just a bit too bizzare. Not that anyone here cares about Harry Potter, but the Chinese Communist Party concerned about morals? ... uh yeah ..

Weren't these the same guys that ran or rather nearly ran over students with tanks?

Things that make you go "hmm....."

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:38 pm

Asian culture is sometimes difficult to understand. So are Communists. Combine the two and you have some stuff that's really, well, out there.

Wang_Lo · Post by **Wang_Lo** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:13 am

take if from a taiwanese, damn commies are st000pid!

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:49 am

OMG?! your political enemy is being accused of having no morals?! HOLY PROPEGANDA PANKAKES BATMAN, THIS IS SUCH AN UNPREDICTABLE MOVE!!!

pff. even the american government has banned literature that was deemed communist.

are you trying to make a point duper?

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:48 am

Yeah roid, it's friggin 'Harry Potter' for cripes sake and the Chinese haven't been exactly the bastion of morality. Your statement about communist literature being banned in the US kind of falls on deaf ears because anybody interested in reading such things could obtain them quite easily here. Guess what! They can also read them in their own homes *gasp!*.

If you haven't noticed, we're not exactly 1950s/Cold War America anymore. Though some might argue that

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:38 am

Roid had a Mobious-MomentÂ©

Please excuse his actions, he has since cleaned the lint from his bellybutton

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:09 am

BUBBALOU wrote:Roid had a Mobious-MomentÂ©

Please excuse his actions, he has since cleaned the lint from his bellybutton

ROFLMFAO

Yea tyr, exactly. Roid, it's not the Chinese ppl I'm thinkin about. They're not really that much different from us fundimentally, but the institution of Communisim - hardline - really has little ground to get upset about morals. It is an athiest government. They are more concerned about control than they are moral fiber. Read the article thru, it's really pretty good. There are other things involved than supposed fanatical-exremist Communisim. The whole "western culture invasion" is a freeky thing to them. Not that you can really blame them.

But I digress. I didn't mean for this to slant to the E&T forum, just more as a point of curiosity.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:40 am

BUBBALOU wrote:Roid had a Mobious-MomentÂ©

Please excuse his actions, he has since cleaned the lint from his bellybutton

Rofl @ "Mobius-Moment"

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:26 am

A Mobius-Moment is when you forget to wear your Depends and the anal leakage spills into your DBB posts.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:15 pm

roid wrote:OMG?! your political enemy is being accused of having no morals?! HOLY PROPEGANDA PANKAKES BATMAN, THIS IS SUCH AN UNPREDICTABLE MOVE!!!

pff. even the american government has banned literature that was deemed communist.

are you trying to make a point duper?

And the government had gone after anyone that remotely supported communism. Remember all the arrests made against actors way back in the day? So we aren't exactly the last great hope for mankind. Big whoop. Whats YOUR point here roid?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:35 pm

um.. oh..

I'd like to take this moment to point out that Harry Potter is British thing and not American.

Hm.. lol.. and Britian just left China. That means something, I think. .... or not.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:40 am

I'd like to take this moment to point out that Harry Potter is being made by Hollywood, which is most certainly American and that if you haven't noticed Americans are very much caught up in all the stupidity of it

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:23 am

Listen guys, you all don't really understand this. Harry Potter's magical standard is just too low for a country with a tradition of magic as old and honorable as China. They just don't want to spoil their youth by watching magic far below their standards ... ummm, oh, anybody following me?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:46 am

/me scratches his sleestack head and sits down.

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:54 am

tyranny wrote:Your statement about communist literature being banned in the US kind of falls on deaf ears because anybody interested in reading such things could obtain them quite easily here

i don't understand, how is china any different with regard to the black/underground market? (this is what i assume you are talking about)

MD-2389 wrote:
roid wrote:OMG?! your political enemy is being accused of having no morals?! HOLY PROPEGANDA PANKAKES BATMAN, THIS IS SUCH AN UNPREDICTABLE MOVE!!!

pff. even the american government has banned literature that was deemed communist.

are you trying to make a point duper?
And the government had gone after anyone that remotely supported communism. Remember all the arrests made against actors way back in the day? So we aren't exactly the last great hope for mankind. Big whoop. Whats YOUR point here roid?

point was that it's the pot calling the kettle black*.
from your post... i assume you agree.

*so all the "they so sucky, while we so high and mighty" being implied in this thread is misplaced.
it really did seem that people were pointing fingers.
(remember my first post in this thread was while it was still in E&C)

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:01 am

It's the movie they are banning, not the books. The books are british, but the movies are very much american, even though they employ a series of british actors.

I can see where they're coming from though. They mention a first generation of western chinese teenagers wanting coca-cola, pop music, levis, mc donalds and all that kind of stuff. Of course it freaks out the government. And history proved that freaked out governments (commie or otherwise) do stupid, unneccessary and unhelpful things.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:27 pm

Xinhua, the government's official news wire service, reported that three middle school students beat up a cyclist and later told police they were simply acting out scenes they had scene (should be "seen") on video games.

</grammar obsessive>

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:50 pm

I don't care why they banned it, it was a good move and should be made here in the US too.