MCLC: human rights and national sovereignty

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Rujie Wang <rwang at wooster.edu>
Subject: human rights and national sovereignty
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I came across these humorous lines linking issues of human rights to
sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands

Rujie

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这是反日浪潮中的一版标语：
Some slogans from recent anti-Japan protests:

没医保、没社保，心中要有钓鱼岛。
Providing no medical insurance, nor social well-fare, but focusing on
having Diaoyu Island.

就算政府不养老，也要恢复钓鱼岛。
It's okay to have no benefit for the elderly and retired, but not to lay
no claim on Diaoyu Island.

没物权、没人权，钓鱼岛上争主权。
No property rights, no human rights, yet sovereignty over Diaoyu Island:

 买不起房、修不起坟，寸土不让日本人。
No way to buy house, no means to build an ancestral tomb, yet not an inch
of soil to give to the Japanese

Heroic couplets:

上联：吃地沟油的命，操中南海的心。
-destined to worry about the politics of Zhongnan Hai while feeding on the
garbage from the sewer;

下联：生日本人的气，砸中国人的车。
-smash the cars of fellow-Chinese while venting anger at the Japanese;

横批：一群傻X
-a group of stupid cunts