PeterKa

Latest revision as of 06:42, November 7, 2023

This user is part of the CP Civility Association.

Here are my American Thinker articles: https://www.americanthinker.com/author/peterkauffner/

Back from Hong Kong

I'm back from Hong Kong and it was certainly quite a week to be there (Oct. 1-7). Hong Kong was once a British colony, but it has been ruled by China since 1997. The city has a unique "one country, two systems" form of government that allows a British-style legal system to flourish despite the fact that the local government now works for the Chinese Communist Party. There have been pro-democracy protests in the city since an extradition bill was proposed four months ago. The protests mushroomed after Carrie Lam, the city's hapless chief executive, issued a decree banning masks on Oct. 5. Vandalism was so intense that the entire subway system had to closed for the first time in its history. Not only that, but the city's High Court is likely to overturn the decree.
As if protests and tear gas weren't enough, Hong Kong faces another serious problem: The city is experiencing one of the largest housing bubbles in economic history. Rising land values make the rich richer and leaves young couples unable to afford homes of their own. Everyone wants a piece of the action, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi has a villa in Hong Kong at Repulse Bay. When I talked to the protesters, I suggested that they take a look at that.

Dim sum is what Hong Kongers eat for breakfast.
Jenny Bakery in Mirador Mansion makes the city's favorite cookies.
You get a magnificent view of the harbor aboard the white and green Hong Kong ferry.
I stand in front of a pro-democracy march in Wanchai District, site of some of the most serious rioting. Masks provide protection against tear gas.
This barricade was built in Mongkok District on Oct. 5. Although defended by a catapult, the police had little trouble removing it.
This bilingual poster looks at the fraught relationship between the protesters and Mass Transit Railway, the city's subway provider. The Hong Kong language, which you can see on the left, is not intelligible to mainland Chinese.
The subway system has been overwhelmed by vandalism. This pane is at Mei Foo Station.
The "local government" headed by Carrie Lam is a front. This tower in Sai Ying Pun is the city's real center of power. It is the "secret" headquarters of the Communist Party.

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-Ever wondered how Wikipedia gets rid of unwanted conservatives? They have it down to a science. Liberal editors will harass the victim until he reacts. Then they use his reaction as the basis for a complaint to Administrator's Noticeboard/Incidents (ANI). Established liberal editors rarely get sanctioned for harassing a conservative, the situation has to be resolved somehow, so the result is often a "topic ban" for the conservative. At this point, Team Harassment smells blood, and more people will get involved. They accuse the victim of violating the topic ban so he can be banned from Wikipedia altogether.
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-I can't say what exactly I did to tick off Team Harassment in the first place. I participated extensively in a forum called "requested moves," so many editors were aware of my opinions on a variety of subjects. My views on diacritics, climate change, gender issues, and the use of disambiguation all provoked emotional responses. But I was well-established editor with tens of thousands of edits, and I was able to outargue Team Harassment in several ANI discussions. It took a year-long campaign of harassment to get me banned. Every time I logged in there was a new post denouncing me for something or other.
+Here are my ''American Thinker'' articles: https://www.americanthinker.com/author/peterkauffner/
-Finally, my case went to an admin named Ponyo. She is apparently high enough in the Wikipedia hierarchy so that she doesn't need to issue warnings before blocking or follow the other procedural safeguards. She imposed a a two-week block on me for "edit warring." Even her note explaining the block doesn't take this pretext all that seriously. It is mostly about other incidents that occurred months earlier. The only way she would have known about these incidents is if she had been recruited by a member of Team Harassment. Ponyo is a feminist, so she may have gotten involved in response to [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | this essay]]. I assume many of the issues used to harass me were just pretexts. After all, who gets excited about diacritics or Sino-Vietnamese characters?
+==Back from Hong Kong==
+I'm back from Hong Kong and it was certainly quite a week to be there (Oct. 1-7). Hong Kong was once a British colony, but it has been ruled by China since 1997. The city has a unique "one country, two systems" form of government that allows a British-style legal system to flourish despite the fact that the local government now works for the Chinese Communist Party. There have been pro-democracy protests in the city since an extradition bill was proposed four months ago. The protests mushroomed after Carrie Lam, the city's hapless chief executive, issued a decree banning masks on Oct. 5. Vandalism was so intense that the entire subway system had to closed for the first time in its history. Not only that, but the city's High Court is likely to overturn the decree.<br/>As if protests and tear gas weren't enough, Hong Kong faces another serious problem: The city is experiencing one of the largest housing bubbles in economic history. Rising land values make the rich richer and leaves young couples unable to afford homes of their own. Everyone wants a piece of the action, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi has a villa in Hong Kong at Repulse Bay. When I talked to the protesters, I suggested that they take a look at that.
-After I was blocked, an ANI discussion could be held without my participation. There is of course a rule against this tactic. To keep bringing up the same complaint again and again is called "forum shopping." In fact, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive252#Ban_proposal:_Kauffner the discussion which resulted in my being banned] consists almost entirely of references to previous discussions; It's almost a parody of forum shopping. In these previous discussions, it was decided not to sanction me in any way. In short, earlier harassment was used to justify more harassment.
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+File:Dim sum.jpg|Dim sum is what Hong Kongers eat for breakfast.
-Later, I noticed that several of the posts I made these earlier discussions were "oversighted" -- disappeared from the point of view of the ordinary user. Ponyo is an oversighter, so perhaps it is her doing. Apparently, I had defended myself too effectively for these posts to be left in the archive. If you are interested in the play-by-play of what happened to me, check out [[User:PeterKa/Arbcom | my Arbcom appeal]].
+File:Cookies from Jenny Bakery.jpg|Jenny Bakery in Mirador Mansion makes the city's favorite cookies.
+File:Hong Kong Ferry.jpeg|You get a magnificent view of the harbor aboard the white and green Hong Kong ferry.
+File:Pro-democracy march in Wanchai, Hong Kong.jpeg|I stand in front of a pro-democracy march in Wanchai District, site of some of the most serious rioting. Masks provide protection against tear gas.
+File:V-Barracade across Nathan Road in Mongkok.jpg|This barricade was built in Mongkok District on Oct. 5. Although defended by a catapult, the police had little trouble removing it.
+File:Poster on why attack subway.jpg|This bilingual poster looks at the fraught relationship between the protesters and Mass Transit Railway, the city's subway provider. The Hong Kong language, which you can see on the left, is not intelligible to mainland Chinese.
+File:Glass broken in Hong Kong protests.jpeg|The subway system has been overwhelmed by vandalism. This pane is at Mei Foo Station.
+File:China_Liaison_Office,_Hong_Kong.jpeg|The "local government" headed by Carrie Lam is a front. This tower in Sai Ying Pun is the city's real center of power. It is the "secret" headquarters of the Communist Party.
+</gallery>
 ==What I have written==
-*[[Nazarene]]‎, [[J. Frank Norris]], [[Peter Ruckman]], [[Textus Receptus]], [[sensus plenior]], [[divine accommodation]], [[Yule]], [[Johannine Comma]], [[Codex Washingtonianus]], [[Star of Bethlehem]], [[Fundamentalism]], [[Andy McIntosh]]
+*[[Nazarene]]‎, [[J. Frank Norris]], [[Peter Ruckman]], [[Textus Receptus]], [[sensus plenior]], [[divine accommodation]], [[Yule]], [[Johannine Comma]], [[Codex Washingtonianus]], [[Star of Bethlehem]], [[Fundamentalism]], [[Tertiary]], [[Andy McIntosh]], [[Akhenaten]], [[Tutankhamun]], [[Nefertiti]]
-*[[Nuclear option]], [[Star_Trek_franchise#Political_themes]], [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], [[Roman Warm Period]], [[No Gun Ri]], [[Vietcong]], [[Republic of China]], [[YAD06]], [[Girls' Generation]], [[Xia dynasty]], [[Shang dynasty]].
+*[[Republicans (Jeffersonian)]],  [[Classical Chinese]], [[Empress Dowager Cixi]], [[diacritic]], [[Mandarin]], [[Nuclear option]], [[Star_Trek_franchise#Political_themes]], [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], [[Roman Warm Period]], [[No Gun Ri]], [[Vietcong]], [[Republic of China]], [[rule of law]], [[YAD06]], [[Girls' Generation]], [[Xia dynasty]], [[Shang dynasty]]