Brickbat: The Next Chapter

Charles Oliver | 1.9.2015 6:00 AM

A Chinese court has sentenced Shen Yongping to one year in prison for running an illegal business. Shen produced a documentary on China's efforts to achieve constitutional rule. The government said that was illegal because he never got a permit to make the documentary.

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Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

Brickbats from China, eh?

Well, at least his video never started an embassy protest that ended with one of his country's ambassadors getting killed.
1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
  
  Brickbats from China, eh?
  
  reason outsourced to cheap foreign labor. They figured since everything else was being made there already...
  1. invisible furry hand 10 years ago
    
    Why not? They're probably already making a perfectly acceptable knock-off called Brikkbat.
    1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
      
      I prefer the more upscale Terracottaclub, News Nuggets for Nabobs.
    2. John Galt 10 years ago
      
      "Perfectly acceptable" is always easy to achieve by continually lowering standards.
Stickler Meeseeks 10 years ago

Clearly detente works.
Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt 10 years ago

Thomas Friedman feels a stirring below...
Rufus J. Firefly 10 years ago

We can learn a thing or two from China.
1. WTF 10 years ago
  
  Yeah, we just need to overturn Citizens United.
  1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
    
    🙁 I had a snarky response, but it relied on reason accepting inline styles for test rotation.
An Innocent Man 10 years ago

Forget it Charlie, it's China-country.
Cyto 10 years ago

OT:

We have been playing "is it a parody" with this article condemning free speech for the last couple of days. Now the author/artist has doubled down with a response to "her" critics. I still say parody, but it is a pretty extensive effort. Kinda Andy Kaufman-esque in the extent and commitment to character.

For those who didn't bother, the original screed called for outlawing the Libertarian party as a hate group.
1. Rebel Scum 10 years ago
  
  Skimmed through a little bit of that and I really hope it is parody. That said, I would not be surprised if it is not.
  1. Cyto 10 years ago
    
    That's what makes it.... funny? We all know people who think that way, but just haven't bothered to collect their various thoughts into a cohesive whole that exposes their totalitarian roots.
    
    I have a "human rights expert" in my circle ... well, my wife's circle... who is exactly like this parody. Just not as cohesive.
    1. Rebel Scum 10 years ago
      
      We all know people who think that way
      
      Every prog I've ever known because they cannot think passed their emotions.
      
      haven't bothered to collect their various thoughts into a cohesive whole that exposes their totalitarian roots.
      
      Most have few actual 'thoughts' and are not intellectually/ideologically honest enough to do so.
2. Steve G 10 years ago
  
  LOL, I couldn't read the original article since I was blinded by the ads for Lena Dunham's 'show'. I won't go back.
3. Gadianton 10 years ago
  
  For those who didn't bother, the original screed called for outlawing the Libertarian party as a hate group.
  
  So, she calls for imprisoning people because their views (as she sees them) are repugnant. Imprisoning people is violence. The entire article is hate speech -- arrest the author!
4. Gene 10 years ago
  
  I am dumbstruck people could read through the twenty item list of speech to outlaw and not come to the conclusion it's parody.
  1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
    
    Because I've heard people actually argue for the same thing in all earnestness.
    1. WTF 10 years ago
      
      Yeah, I was convinced the initial article had to be parody, but then I've thought about things that people like our troll 'Tony' has written in seriousness, and now I'm not quite sure. Because there really are people on the left who think those things.
    2. Gene 10 years ago
      
      That is scary, did you recommend they see a shrink?
      1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
        
        Naw, I just built an inside-out asylum like the guy from 'So long and thanks for all the fish'.
        
        UnCivilServant 10 years ago
        
        *(not meant to invalidate the initial statement with snark, but these views were too prevalent in this region)
    3. GILMORE 10 years ago
      
      I never thought it was a parody. Its pretty much the 'middle of the road' POV from young college grads today.
      
      "UnCivilServant|1.9.15 @ 8:14AM|#
      
      Because I've heard people actually argue for the same thing in all earnestness."
      
      see= Dartmouth
5. Johnny Bravo 10 years ago
  
  Tanya Cohen contributes to Thought Catalog
  
  It is a stretch to call that article "thought."
  1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
    
    Why do you think they have to order thought from an outside catalog?
6. Gene 10 years ago
  
  4 ? Reply?Share ?
  Avatar
  Pixy Misa ? 2 hours ago
  More brilliant satire. Keep it up, Tanya, you're a star!
  5 ? Reply?Share ?
  
  Not everyone has been trolled.
Bardas Phocas 10 years ago

At least he didn't run afoul of the City Planning Commission.
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

Picture, if you will, President Obama sitting in the Oval Office. He has crazy big ears and super exaggerated facial features that approaches a type of racist caricature that harkens back to the Japanese soldiers featured in WWII-era Bugs Bunny cartoons.

In walks a man with an oversize forehead, bulldog face and the air to him that screams either erudite or effete or possibly both. He asks the president what is to be done about the low employment numbers for the young voters who had helped put this administration in office.

The president looks contemplative and then declares, "If they never leave school, they are never unemployed!" And then Cash 4 Clunkers 2 happens.

I give you your Friday Funnies.
1. invisible furry hand 10 years ago
  
  Needz moar labelz
  1. Steve G 10 years ago
    
    and TRIGGER WARNINGS!
2. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt 10 years ago
  
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
  
  /sage
3. Libertarian 10 years ago
  
  I'll never get tired of cash for clunkers being mentioned. What a fiasco. A government program that worked so well that they had to abolish it!!!!!!!
  
  The fact that it sent viable cars to the crusher and raised the prices of used cars to the detriment of the poor is sheer poetry.
invisible furry hand 10 years ago

The lack of activity around here is because everyone's watching the latest from Paris, I assume
1. Steve G 10 years ago
  
  Marcel Marceau?
  1. invisible furry hand 10 years ago
    
    Still dead, alas.
    
    For those who haven't checked the news yet, the Charlie Hebdo shooters have holed up with a hostage, and the suspect in the shooting of a cop yesterday has seized a kosher deli, killed 2, and is also holding hostages.
2. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt 10 years ago
  
  Watching Paris? I am lucky enough to be able to comment here...
Libertarian 10 years ago

You know, if Reason is going to start posting brickbats for China, they're going to need a bigger website.
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