I regard myself as pretty tolerant of ignorant nutters on internet but this reply from Wayne made me genuinely pissed off.

Thanks to your comment I could regain my posture and decided not to feed that troll.

Well, first of all, I think we can safely say that we have no idea what China would be like now had the students and government been more successful in compromising than the eventual decision of the government to suppress. On one hand, I do agree that the current apparatus has yielded certain advantages with regards to developing China’s economic growth. There’s no denying that. On the other hand, we can’t say economic growth couldn’t have been achieved otherwise. You making that causal connection with the certainty of “without doubt” is a absolutely fallacious.

Second of all, your distaste for students being students, Chinese rockers, or Chinese women who prefer white men over Chinese men (for whatever reason), has absolutely nothing to do with the propriety of the government’s decision and whether or not today’s positives of China were a direct result of those decisions.

I’ve taken you seriously, but few others will. I trust you’re intelligent enough to recognize the difference between a conclusion supported by valid premises and an assertion coupled with random prejudices. Hint: you’re of the latter, but hey, you’re welcome to try again.

Those students strumming guitars, putting up that ridiculous, absurd, embarassing ’statue of liberty’ lookalike shows they were dupes of the West.

There is nothing more sickening on the face of the planet than a Chinese rocker. Perhaps the only thing that equals that in terms of sheer depravity is Chinese women who spread their legs for the white man.

I went to University. I never grew my hair long. I never took part in a protest. That is because I respect those older, more experienced and wiser than myself. And when I saw those delinquents I would quite happily have taken a baseball bat to their heads myself.