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• http://www.8Asians.com/ jozjozjoz

  It’s awful that they sold their kids, but on the other hand, maybe it’s better (for the kids) that they did.

• http://hubpages.com/profile/Pamela+N+Red PamelaNRed

  That’s awful. Hopefully these children went to loving people who will appreciate them more than their own mom and dad. It never ceases to amaze me how people who don’t want kids can pop them out but those who would be great parents can’t seem to conceive.

• Danny_Ahmed

  That’s very sad, but I’m sort with Jozjozjoz here. The kids probably would be better off without such parents.

  Sigh…where I grew up, I’ve heard about a few stories such as this.

• http://twitter.com/inswongful StephRWong

  I don’t even know what to say about this…issues, they got issues. I mean at least sell them for food or something more useful but c’mon video games?!

• Phantom

  Does anyone know about this video? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a7_1311109738

  That video is TOTALLY SHOCKING! ! ! I can’t believe those men kick that 8 y.o. boy in his face, and then one of them steps on his little hand, apparently breaking his fingers and then does it to his other hand. Broad daylight, in busy public street, many other adults around, both men & women, young & old, yet NOBODY steps in to stop them. NOBODY tries to protect the little boy. Is this the “normal” punishment for his offense, or could it be a hate crime? Isn’t injustice against one an injustice against all? Where are the 8Asian commentators decrying hate speech, much less hate crimes???

• Danny_Ahmed

  @Phantom I saw that video last week. It’s very disturbing, as you can tell.

  The details are very hard to find. Most of the chatter on the internet is word of mouth, like it’s according to different accounts. This is not a justification, but what I’ve read (which could be true or not, mind you all). The little boy attack an elderly woman, trying to steal something. Then a group of people surrounded the kid. Supposedly one of the adults beating the kid was the elderly woman’s grandson.

  Supposedly this was in Hong Kong, but the other rumour was that this was in Xinjiang, and the kid was a Uyghur (which added more ethnic tension). Due to the accents in the video, the latter might be more likely.

  A lot of people were outrage, but not as much as we would have expect, in both the Chinese and English blogosphere. I made a comment, I think, condemning this act on another site, but it was full of anti-Chinese racist comments.

• Danny_Ahmed

  @Phantom On some of the sites that talked about this, a lot of commentators condemn it as well, and tried not to generalize anything without more facts, like what happen before and what happen afterwards. However, some of the anti-Chinese racist comments overshadow them, and some people got defensive and tangent (distracted from the main story) due to that.

• Phantom

  @Danny_Ahmed Thank you, Danny, for sharing what you found. I was just sooo sad when I saw that. I have a little nephew about his age so I know how little their fingers are.

  The thing that most stunned me was that no one tried to intervene. That’s why I thought there could be some “hate” aspect to it. Plus, where were his parents??? I somehow doubt whether a little 8 y.o. on his own would go and attack an elderly woman. Maybe if he was starving he’d try to steal something. But to — literally — torture him??? Turn him over to the police!

  All in all a very sad situation and I feel very sad for the child. I hope his hands (and soul/emotions/heart) heal and memories fade and the perps be brought to justice.

• mwei

  @Phantom to be fair, that happens in every major city where people don’t dare to step in and intervene.

  however, with the population density there’s just more of these incidences in China. I got out of there because I couldn’t stand the constant fighting that seems like people are just itching for public brawls.

  and police corruption is rampant, along with the “para-police” “city managers” (cheng guan – 城关). checkout the chinasmack.com archives for the almost daily beatings involving street vendors.

• mwei

  @Phantom@Danny_Ahmed

  to be fair, that probably happens in every major city where people don’t dare to step in and intervene.

  however, with the population density there’s just more of these incidences in China. I got out of there because I couldn’t stand the constant fighting that seems like people are just itching for public brawls.

  and police corruption is rampant, along with the “para-police” “city managers” (cheng guan – 城管). checkout the chinasmack.com archives for the almost daily beatings involving street vendors.

• Danny_Ahmed

  @Phantom On the video, a few adults were screaming where were the kid’s parents. Everyone was wondering the same thing as well.

• Danny_Ahmed

  @mwei @Phantom It’s true what you said. Since there’s more people within certain areas, China will give off that impression that it has a lot of these disturbing or weird things…but there’s stuff like this in every country to various degrees.

  I’ve know of adults ganging up on one kid, corrupted cops and judges, parents selling children, animal abuse, people not intervening in a public situation, etc. all in the US, both major cities and small towns.