←back to thread

Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

(playhearthstone.com)
2525 points hownottowrite | 5 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
a_c ◴[08 Oct 19 14:36 UTC] No.21192772[source]▶
Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Good for the people of Hong Kong.

The topic of Hong Kong didn't struck me as sensational/desperate as it deserves until a Hong Kong friend send me this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q Am moved by the clip, especially for the first 50s. It is english sub-ed. Would recommend anyone interested in the topic give it a look

replies(14): >>21192859 #>>21193302 #>>21193399 #>>21193545 #>>21193696 #>>21193715 #>>21193861 #>>21193945 #>>21194031 #>>21194344 #>>21194646 #>>21194695 #>>21194770 #>>21196112 #
1. hendrix23234 ◴[08 Oct 19 15:47 UTC] No.21193545[source]▶
In the video at mark 01:16 https://youtu.be/0yXTHODE24Q?t=84 there is a quote about "non-believers". Does the chinese government have anything against atheists in their policies ? To my knowledge chinese government does not interfere in personal religious beliefs.
replies(4): >>21193608 #>>21193694 #>>21194634 #>>21196304 #
2. stretchwithme ◴[08 Oct 19 15:52 UTC] No.21193608[source]▶
Yeah, it's not like they've been harvesting organs of Falun Gong members.
3. throwawaypolicy ◴[08 Oct 19 16:00 UTC] No.21193694[source]▶
I interpreted "non believers" to be "not believing in the party" not "not believing in religion".

"the Chinese government doesn't interfere in personal religious beliefs" is quite the claim though, considering they literally have concentration camps full of Muslims.

4. cat199 ◴[08 Oct 19 17:23 UTC] No.21194634[source]▶
CCP is officially atheist.
5. PhasmaFelis ◴[08 Oct 19 19:40 UTC] No.21196304[source]▶
> To my knowledge chinese government does not interfere in personal religious beliefs.

...

The Chinese government spent 1966 to 1976 violently destroying churches and holy sites of all religions and imprisoning, torturing, and killing priests and worshipers.

Since then they've officially embraced freedom of religion, especially traditional Chinese religion that emphasizes submission to authority, but in the last decade they've been "waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982," including "destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China#People's_Rep...

EDIT: "Account created: 3 hours ago"