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Sharon Stone continued her legacy of incredibly idiocy today. And it really is a legacy. The woman is constantly saying and doing such moronic, disgusting, terrible things that you think she can’t possibly top the last debacle… and then she does.
Two weeks ago a massive earthquake hit the Chinese province of Sichuan. 88,000 people are dead or missing. 80% of the buildings have been destroyed. Several schools were leveled, trapping and killing thousands of schoolchildren. The entire thing has been nothing but devastating. So how does lovely Sharon Stone respond? By saying that the Chinese brought it on themselves. You know, the poor villagers and children.
“I’m, you know, not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so, I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like … that. And then I’ve been, this, you know, concerned about, oh, how should we deal with the Olympics, because they’re not being nice to the Dali Lama who is a good friend of mine. And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
[From WWTDD]
I’d really like to know where your karma is, Sharon Stone. Because you’re a legendary bitch. So exactly what should befall you? And by the logic that the Chinese government isn’t nice, thus bad things happen to the Chinese citizens, should bad things happen to your family because you’re one horking bitch?
Something tells me that Sharon’s “good friend” the Dali Lama isn’t her great friend right now. What with the whole “being decent to other people” thing that he’s a big fan of. Aside from her unsightly crotch flashing – and speaking of unsightly atrocities, making us look at her face on the whole – Stone’s other incredibly offensive statements include her mentioning that women who thought they might be raped should offer the potential rapist a blowjob instead.
I’m all for free speech. But at some point, there should be consequences for saying terrible things. I’m not even saying they should be legal consequences – but maybe everyone refuses to go to your crap-ass movies or give you a dime of their money, and you eventually end up living in a cave and being eating alive by rabid bears. During an earthquake. Because of your bad karma.
Click here for a list of legitimate websites where you can donate money towards Earthquake relief.
Update by Celebitchy: Due to the urgent need in Sichuan province after the devastating earthquake, and Sharon Stone’s highly offensive statement, along with some of the ignorant, dismissive and arguably heartless comments here, we have donated $1,000 to the Half The Sky Children’s Relief Fund through Global Giving. Please rest assured that the comments here do not reflect the opinions of the people who run this site at all. Rather than continuing to argue about this, we recommend you donate whatever you can afford, even a small amount, to Global Giving. After hearing about this horrible disaster I wanted to do something to help. Thanks to Sharon Stone and the others who called her comments justifiable for helping us remember what’s important in life.
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Header photo of Sharon Stone at amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS gala at Cannes on Thursday. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Crazy, Sharon Stone
179 Responses to “Sharon Stone says Chinese earthquake was karma (comments closed)”
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im sorry to say this but I agree with her, I thought that when it happened, its karma striking back at chinas horrendous human rights behaviour and I dont think the olympics should be in china based on how they treat their own people, i saw on the news a 90 year old man thrown onto the streets with no where to go because they needed to flatten his apartment of 70 years to make room for building stuff for the olympics
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She looks great and I love the dress.
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Seeing as China sucks up American industrial and manufacturing jobs and has become the huge new economic super power in the world- I’m not inclined to donate jacksh*t to them for earthquake relief. It’s their damn problem, they can pay for it.
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Wow, I’m really surprised at some of these comments…so people, children included, should suffer and recieve no help because of their messed government? Can someone please explain this to me cause I didn’t know that children had the chance of choosing the government that they are born into…Some of you guys sound just like those terrorists who came across the ocean to put into action 9/11…rememeber all of those innocent people who had nothing to do with the choices that the our government makes yet they decided to kill those innocent people????? Oh and there is always that little Katrina thing…yeah lets just all sit back and let people suffer because of what the government is doing
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I agree with you Lena…
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Sorry, but you are wrong, wrong wrong and are accusing her of something she didn’t do. Read what she said. She wondered out loud “is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
That is NOT the same thing as saying it was Karma against China. Frankly, that was what I wondered too as have many others I’m sure. Get your shorts out of that knot they’re in. -
Lena,
Swing and a miss. Send your bucks to China if you wish and when your factory job closes shop and gets sent there because they only have to pay laborers 10 cents an hour with no benefits of any kind, you can smile the smile of the morally superior and out of work.
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Lena said:
‘Wow, I’m really surprised at some of these comments…so people, children included, should suffer and recieve no help because of their messed government? Can someone please explain this to me cause I didn’t know that children had the chance of choosing the government that they are born into…Some of you guys sound just like those terrorists who came across the ocean to put into action 9/11…rememeber all of those innocent people who had nothing to do with the choices that the our government makes yet they decided to kill those innocent people????? Oh and there is always that little Katrina thing…yeah lets just all sit back and let people suffer because of what the government is doing”I don’t see where anyone said anything of the kind. The fact is that governments do horrible things and innocent people suffer. It’s not ok,and I didn’t see anyone say that it is, but it happens and that’s a fact that’s been around longer than prostitution.
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Yup. Just like Katrina was God’s retribution for giving homosexual couples legal rights (re Pastor John Hagee). I hope karma doesn’t decide to punish me for the mess in Iraq. Or for America’s usage of capital punishment. Or that carbon emissions thing.
America’s economy is still larger than India’s or China’s, if I recall correctly. And America’s economic decline also has much to do with current American policies–it wasn’t simply the result of dastardly plotting by large poorer countries striving for better economies for their citizens.
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Yeah, lets please refrain from making dumbass comparisons between 9/11 and Katrina, or this earthquake.
9/11 was perpetrated by human beings, with complete understanding of the lives they intended to take. You just can’t compare natural disasters to human-caused mass murder.
And yeah, if they deserved it or not is up for debate. I do think it’s very coincidental that this happened right on the heals of a major crackdown in Tibet, and like most people, I immediately thought this would be a textbook example of Karma.
Like other posters said though, I won’t be sending a dime to them. How many foreign governments sent us aid after Katrina? Welcome to being a world power China, it means you have to clean up your own messes from now on. Good luck with that.
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So are we now going to say that Hurrican Katrina was Karma?? The Indonisian and Sri Lanka psunami?? Come on now! How we see China and thier government, countries all over the world see our governement. If the earthquake wiped out the intire chinese embassy but no one else was injured, THAT’S karma.
Seriously, some of you should be ashamed of yourselves. So many children and people lost and who here has the right to sit and judge who deserves what. Get over yourselves. -
Catlady… vdantev said
“Seeing as China sucks up American industrial and manufacturing jobs and has become the huge new economic super power in the world- I’m not inclined to donate jacksh*t to them for earthquake relief. It’s their damn problem, they can pay for it.”
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vdantev:
I truly hope that you and yours never need any type of assistance one day with something, outsourcing of jobs is a big problem in America and it’s not something that I support or take likely, furthermore I’m not in a position to put a stop to it. I do, however, support some humanatarian relief efforts when I can…read the above statement slowly…it’s not ones fault what the government is doing/controlling and people should not have to suffer because of it…this post is about karma so maybe you should be careful
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Lena, you and a lot of other people need to wake up to the reason WHY so many Americans have this attitude.
In the last 75 years or so, no one on Earth has come CLOSE to doing the amount of good we’ve done for this world. Just look at something like the tsunami - correct me if I’m mistaken, but didn’t we give three times the amount that even the ’second place’ nation provided in aid?
That was for people half way around the world, and China is right next door and didn’t do shit for those people. But we’re suddenly supposed to bail their asses out when a natural disaster hits them?
I can’t speak for anyone else, but as an American, I’m getting really fucking tired of seeing my tax money shipped off to help countries that turn around and badmouth us all the time. Like I said, for 75 years we have been bailing out countries all over the world, and all we get are complaints.
We rebuilt our ENEMIES after both world wars. We fed the children of Europe while our own country was spiraling into depression. We funded the Marshal plan even as we tried to protect all of Europe from the Russians pretty much by ourselves. No nation has built more schools, hospitals, and power plants. No nation has done more for civilians all over the world, be it dismantling land mines, sanitizing water, or treating AIDs victims in Africa. What has it gotten us?
If people are going to hate us anyways, I’d much rather those TRILLIONS in aid we ship off stayed in this country and helped our own people. The Chinese, the Russians, the French, ect. They all think they can do a better job being top dog than we’ve been doing - so let them try to pick up the pieces when the world goes to shit. After all, it’s done soooo much to help our image.
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Scott F. said
“Like other posters said though, I won’t be sending a dime to them. How many foreign governments sent us aid after Katrina? Welcome to being a world power China, it means you have to clean up your own messes from now on. Good luck with that.”
Cmon Scott, at least do some research before posting a comment. After hurricane Katrina, the US government officially asked for help from the international community and recieved over US $800 million in aid. And like it or not, China was one of the countries who provided aid. So before you try to cover your selfishness and ignorance, do some research first.
Thanks!
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Scott F, I totally agree with you.
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I get the frustration F, I really do trust me, but you are putting America WAY up on a pedestal, as much good that Amercica has done, it’s also done some fucked up stuff too along the way, Katrina is a prime example of that…I just don’t think when people are in a position to help they should turn their backs on people who have their hands out when they truly need it…and as an American I get tired of seeing my tax dollars paying for unemployment, disability, and welfare for people who are able to work but choose not to, but i digress, I do get what you are saying, but it’s very simple to me, no BS, no propraganda, no scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours…just people helping people if they are capable of doing it..I know it’s not like that, but it would be nice if it was
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Yeah, China sent us aid - valued at $5 million U.S.
The only way I found a mention of China sending us $5 million worth of supplies was by looking on a webpage published by the Chinese government.
Here is an exact listing of international aid for Katrina from Wikipedia.
“Over seventy countries pledged monetary donations or other assistance. Notably, Cuba and Venezuela (both hostile to US government themselves) were the first countries to offer assistance, pledging over $1 million, several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, canned food, bottled water, heating oil, 1,100 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine, though this aid was rejected by the U.S. government. [100] [101] [102] [103] Kuwait made the largest single pledge, $500 million; other large donations were made by Qatar ($100 million), South Korea ($30 million), Australia ($10 million), India, China (both $5 million), Pakistan ($1.5 million),[104] and Bangladesh ($1 million).”
Fucking Qatar gave us 20 times the aid that China did. QATAR!
That’s what their Government sent. Compare that to what our private citizens gave from their own pockets for tsunami relief. Yeah, we’re real selfish and ignorant over here.
The international community claims that we didn’t help those people because the were predominantly black - but in case you were wondering how much money we raised for ourselves vs. how much aid we got.
The American Red Cross, Southern Baptist Convention, Salvation Army, Oxfam, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities, Habitat for Humanity, Service International, “A River of Hope” and many other charitable organizations provided help to the victims of the storm. They were not allowed into New Orleans proper by the National Guard for several days after the storm because of safety concerns. These organizations raised $4.25 billion (USD) in donations by the public, with the Red Cross receiving over half of the donations.[111]
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Just read comments here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYoZEn9vlzEHave you ever thought about why most Chinese people called the western broadcast liar?
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I suggest that most of you guys here should visit China sometime. Thus you have the right to comment on the Chinese government, and you will find out who is the real liar. I truly hope that you guys can find out the truth as soon as possible, otherwise you are just the victims of those lies.
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all the mean posts just prove one thing -the americans are really getting worried, scared because they know china is on the rise to becoming the next world power.
like whatever, chinese r everywhere in every corners of the world, they dont need your pathetic donations. they can drown america with all their spit. save all your intended donations to save america instead -
The epicenter of the China earthquake is called Wenchuan—Aba Tibet Self-Governing State. This means most victims in the earthquake are Tibetan. If Sharon said it’s karma,then it’s a karma for Dalai Lama. Where is Dalai when Chinses government rescued those Tibetan?
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Dalai Lama is traveling in Europe when so many Tibetan dead in the earthquake. And his friend—Sharon said it’s a karma.
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Its unfortunate that so many of you American can get your head out of your ass. As individuals, how you project yourself is what you’ll receive back.
You can be all bitter all you want about China. It ain’t going to change a thing.
Do you know who really owns America? Its England, Japan, CHINA, Saudi Arabia and a few others.
What are you going to do to make a difference.
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If Chinese earth quake is karma, what about the hurricane katrina and all those tornadoes that constantly sweep over US. What about the September 11 disasters. Is the sunk of Titanic karma too. There are just natural disasters. Shame on you Sharon, you need to get a brain and a loving personality.
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all the ppl who thought its karma would go hell.stone bit*h,u even dont know there er 19% ppl r tibentan in that Earthquake area.the stupid will get karma.omg!
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Ms Stone…Karma doesn’t stop it keeps moving we’ll be waiting for it to hit you or maybe it already has..
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just a word: karma is a very complicated concept. and no, it is not the convenient “an eye for an eye” mentality that many believe it to be. in other words, you hit me and then someone hits you and that’s karma! ummm….no. karma is not about revenge or retribution….it is about learning from our suffering and realizing we must take responsibility for our actions. it is about becoming more compassionate and more enlightened, not punishment. sharon stone is an idiot.
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wow, really people? (i’m looking at you, scott f and enonymouse) how disappointing and heartless…
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Thousands of INNOCENT Chinese people are killed in an eathquake and people believe that it is karma? How is the political agenda of a government the fault of the people who reside in small rural communities. That is like saying 911 is karmic payback to the U.S for whatever we have done that others disagree with. No one deserves to lose their lives tragically like that. Anyone who thinks that Sharon Stone is right is ate the fuck up. I would like to see what kind of karma awaits her down the road for many of the poor choices that bitch has made in her life. Gee, when she had a near fatal aneurysm a few years ago, was that karma paying that bitch back?When her husband left her, was that karma? She is an ignorant bitch who should keep her foolish comments to herself . Who is she anyway? A third rate actress that can spout her views because she let theatre goers everywhere get a glimpse of her crotch in a movie a hundred years ago when she was somebody.
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Well I think the karma line is sooo trite and disingenuous. Its like, ‘I can’t think of a rational explanation so I’ll just shout ‘karma’.
To assert a whole nation subscribes to a government’s policy is as ridiculous as saying all Americans agree with going to war in the middle east.
I’ve just recently seen on tv demonstrations by Chinese sympathisers of the Tibetan plight.
Therefore to connect the earthquake with Chinese governmental policy is pretty naive and frankly I’m surprised as Stone always professed to be such an intellect.
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I have been to china numerous times, taught school there, traveled around, and study china for a living. i can assure you that people like scott F and others on this site have a valid point when they talk about china donating a measly 5 million after katrina and doing virtually nothing in the wake of the burmese tsunami except facilitate the blocking of UN and other aide into the country because they are entirely in bed with the military junta there. the chinese government is pretty awful to be sure. and the chinese are a bunch of THE MOST nationalistic people I have ever met, making excuses for and buying into their government’s rationales for censorship, jailings, killing protesters, etc. they are drinking their own koolaid in that country. I am a left-leaning liberal who has tons of problems with our american governments lies and poor policy, etc. but everyone here is entirely naive about China. the earthquake hit and killed thousands of innocents. and the government is thanking god (or chairman mao) for the earthquake because all it did was refocus media attention off their ridiculous torch relay, the tibetan issue, the mass killings in Xinjiang of muslim uighurs, and the jailing of hundreds of dissidents. stone is right. this is some sort of karma but not because innocents are dying-
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Why would anyone care what opinion a sleazy actress espouses? There were scores of innocent children, etc. killed by this tragedy. Her cavalier attitude is outrageous.
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Maybe President Bush was karma?
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If she is right ,what about 9/11 and Katrina?
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Many of these comments remind me of the opening line from the first Star Wars movie in ‘77..”A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…” Nice to see so many Americans living up to their reputation as out of touch ignorant loudmouths. You can get that anywhere but no where in such vast numbers as the US of A.
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She is an azzhole all right. China, New Orleans, etc does not deserve what has happend to them! They should ban her from opening her shyte hole in the future. She sounds like an uneducated waitress at a truck stop! Expensive frock, cheap SLU$!
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I just finish watching The Patriot and right about now I am feeling damn proud to be an American.So,I just want to say to the commenters who are talking about “karma” and who deserves your help and who does not,you guys are really,really f*cking up my good vibes.
We should all hope and pray that none of us,or our love ones will be place in a position where we will need to count on the kindness of strangers.
Good Night.
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Karma causing an earthquake??…that’s so retarded. I seriously doubt if the Earth’s crust even knows or cares anything about Buddhism.
And if people are worried about helping innocent disaster victims they might want to throw a few dollars to the Katrina victims who are still living under the I-10 bridges despite all the “help” from the Bush administration.
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I don’t wanna say about politics .
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i’m sorry but i can’t believe how stupid she can be in making comments like that to the public. she really does sound ridiculous. “when people aren’t nice, bad things happen to them?”
We are talking about innocent people, children, babies, mothers.. fathers.. etc.
It doesn’t matter where they are in the world.. this is a tragedy, a major tragedy. AND FOR SOMEONE TO SAY SUCH THINGS LIKE THAT I BELIEVE YOU HAVE TO HAVE NO HEART. No appreciation for others but yourself. -
Well, Tibetan accounts for 0.2% of Chinese population, in Sithcuan earthquake, 14% of casualties are tibetans. Karma? for whom? Do your math! your fvcking blonde public hair idiot!
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Well, if there is karma than her face has got to fall off sooner or later.
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Hate it, hate it, hate it when people use Wikipedia as a reference!! Wikipedia is a community generated “encyclopedia” that is capable of changing daily based on community input and OPINION. It is not proven to be factually based nor is it required to be held up to any kind of standard. If you want to do research, do it properly. Yes, you can read Wikipedia for opinions but you should not and cannot use it as a reference for factual and confirmed, correct information. There’s a reason professors at universities do not accept Wikipedia as a verified reference source people!
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IS earthquake in China is a Karma, let’s take a look of some facts:
1) The earthquake epicenter in China is a race mixed area where over 50% of the resident are Minority Chinese, ie those who are tiben and Qiang, they are the people Dalai Lama want to take away from the Chinese government.2)To F Scott: A)Your right on that Chinese government made a donation of 5MM USD to Katrina relief, what you don’t know is that the public companies and many citizens in China made more contribution. Do you know how much US government pledged to the earthquake victims in China? 0.5MM USD. I am so proud of our generous government after we spend much of our money on the war.
B)China does not need US government donation for rebuilding the homes lost due to earthquake, althought it helps a little. We have no rights to call the unfortunate human being tragic a “Karma” and to make fun of those who lost their loved ones.3) to bros: If you have been in China so many times to teach and learn Chinese, perhaps you can tell me what school you went to and what have you studied there? If you were really learning and study China for a living, you obviously should know Chinese government has no army reside in Burma and nor does it has rights to enter it unless invited.
When a citizen loves his/her country, in China it is called Nationalist in US it becomes a Patriotic. Let’s pray you are not study China for a living…… -
Her brain hemorrhage seems more lika a Karma, but the earthquake was not.
The Heartless Stone!
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For anyone to say that the Chinese people deserve to suffer through the atrocity of a major earthquake because of an awful government policy is outrageous. I was travelling in China just a couple months ago and spent a few days in Sichuan province (this was about 6 weeks before the earthquake hit). I don’t profess to understand how the people think and what their opinions are of their own government policies after spending only a short amount of time there, however, I did see many Tibetans in this area, many of whom will have died. I only got to know a couple of people in the area but I am sad to think that I will never know if they survived or not. So to hear people on this board say things along the lines of “they don’t deserve our help because they steal our jobs” or “because they didn’t donate much when Hurricane Katrina hit” it appalls me. The people in China are people like you and I, who unfortunately live under a government that is improving but still oppressive. Their lives are difficult enough without suffering through an earthquake.
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“Do you know how much US government pledged to the earthquake victims in China? 0.5MM USD. I am so proud of our generous government after we spend much of our money on the war.”
Seriously, if you’re going to claim to be American, at least be believable. Switching names constantly doesn’t hide your broken understanding of the English language. See, if you were an American, your spelling would be as awful as your syntax. When we fuck something up, we fuck it up completely.
Bros didn’t say China had an army in Burma, but if you don’t believe that they have bought and paid for that entire regime, I’ve got some beach front property in Colorado for you.
Seriously, how the hell do these guys go around doing every bad thing we get accused of, totally blatantly, and no one calls them on it?
We get accused of meddling in the affairs of small countries - they basically call the shots for North Korea, Burma, Vietnam, ect.
We get accused of being aggressive Imperialists - they just walk in to Tibet and occupy it, and the world forgets until the Olympics rolls around.
We get accused of raping the environment - It’s widely believed that the Chinese are already outproducing us in the pollution department, since they don’t allow UN energy inspectors free access, and we pretty much just have to take their word for it when it comes to their emission levels.
We get accused of exploiting third world economies for cheap labor - their OWN PEOPLE are virtual slaves, making less in a month than I can dig out of my couch cushions. The products these indentured servants produce have the odd habit of containing shit that can kill you or cause brain damage. Oh, and that little hiccup about having no freedom of press, religion, expression, due process, ect.
We helped them kick the Japanese out of their country, and how did they repay us? By supporting our enemies in every war for the next half a century! North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba.
Yet, for whatever reason, we just need to forget all about that and toss the olive branch out whenever one of their cities get leveled? I just don’t agree with that.
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Lena said:
‘Wow, I’m really surprised at some of these comments…so people, children included, should suffer and recieve no help because of their messed government? Can someone please explain this to me cause I didn’t know that children had the chance of choosing the government that they are born into…Some of you guys sound just like those terrorists who came across the ocean to put into action 9/11…rememeber all of those innocent people who had nothing to do with the choices that the our government makes yet they decided to kill those innocent people????? Oh and there is always that little Katrina thing…yeah lets just all sit back and let people suffer because of what the government is doing”I don’t see where anyone said anything of the kind. The fact is that governments do horrible things and innocent people suffer. It’s not ok,and I didn’t see anyone say that it is, but it happens and that’s a fact that’s been around longer than prostitution.
—————————————i agree with you 100 percent.
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Ms. Stone is brainless and ignorant. Is it what Daliar Lama taught her?
Ms. Stone should just shut up. She stinks when she speaks out.
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Sharon Stone is a trash.
The earthquake-hit areas are called Ethnic Tibetant Autonomous Region, which is near to Tibet. In March, this region was hit by riots organized by Dalai Lama’s organization. In May, it was hit by natural disaster.
Many Tibetant people died in the earthquake.
According to Tibetant religion, Lama should hold some ceremony for the dead people; now Panchen Lama is leading all the lamas to pray for the dead people in China. Panchen Lama is another spiritual leader for Tibetant people, a highly respected Lama in China. He lives in China now.
But Dalai Lama is visiting Europe to enjoy his political life and also meet Sharon to tell her the earthquake is a karma.
Sharon is an American trash. Dalai Lama has such brainless friend,so what kind of man he is!!!!
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Stone thinks out of crotch.
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I strongly suggest that Dalai Lama should break up with such brainless girlfriend!!! Well, Dalai Lama is foolish and hypocritical. When Tibetant people are suffering from the earthquake, he, as their spiritual leader,just travels here and there. Now Chinese army is sparing no efforts to save these poor Tibetants. So I believe, Chinese army is Tibetant’s spiritual support.
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Im suprised at the amount of ignorant dumbasses there are here.
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Some Americans are so sick mentally.
But there are more Americans like Tina are have sense.
I think, Chinese must be very happy to see Americans are sick mentally,that means,America is rotting,which will give China a chance to rise.
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Im NOT American.
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If it was “karma”, it would involve the people in the government who are involved in the Chinese treatment of Tibet. Not thousands of innocent schoolchildren.
Methinks some of you need to read up on the definition of “karma”.
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It’s not as easy as saying that American’s have done so much good for the rest of the world so why do people hate us so much. I live in Europe and many of the people that I’ve talked to believe that anything we do is justto expand our globalization. There’s truth to it as well. Self preservation rules even governments and as a result they do what it takes to ensure they can take care of themselves and benefit. Yes, I believe the US is in a lose-lose situation a lot of the time. If we don’t do soemthing, we’re evil, if we do something, we just want to take over the world. Again a simplified view, but that seems to be more the general opinion. And citizens of a country will generally get more offended by foreigners attacking them/their government than if they are debating with their own countrymen. It’s not characteristic to Americans; it happens everywhere.
Recognize the earthquake as a tragedy where thousands have lost their lives. Why is there a need to make it political?
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I find it ridiculous and so heartless to say “your government didn’t give money, so we’re not going to give you money” where a humanitarian crisis is involved. I gave some money to Global Giving for the Chinese earthquake victims. The money goes directly to organizations in the country that are pre-screened and give aid where people need it. It’s not going to the government, it’s going to people who need food, water, shelter and a little comfort after losing their loved ones in an horrific natural disaster.
I heard a story on NPR this weekend about a Chinese mother digging through rubble crying and screaming for her 2 year old boy, who was not found. Those are the people who are affected by this crisis who need our help.
Tallying up spreadsheets where people are dead and homeless and suffering is the type of behavior by their governments, including Myanmar, that some of you claim to be against. Yet in the same breath you say you’re not going to give money because their governments didn’t when there was a crisis in America. That’s outrageous. It’s going to the people who are suffering, not their governments.
Re: Tsunami aid: The US government did give a lot, but not 3 times the aid of other countries at all. In fact Japan gave $500 million to the US’ $350 million.
But if you compare Tsunami aid to the GDP of each nation, the US donation of 350 million is near the bottom of the list.
If you’re talking private donations from US Citizens to tsunami victims, this was hard to find, but was around $400 million at the end of January, 2005 after the disaster.
German private citizens donated 400 million Euro, which is worth more and they have a population of 82 million as compared to 300 million. Even if the final numbers weren’t in for the US donations, there are EU nations that gave about the same amount with less than half of the US population. The US does not have a monopoly on charity, nor are Americans more charitable when compared to people from other countries.
Again, why we would even tally up this shit is up to question. People died in a natural disaster. As an American my first thought goes to if they’re ok and how I can help, not how their government behaves. In fact they’re probably faring worse because of their government and need help more. Some of your opinions make me very sad.
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CB, thank you for a grown-up response. It saves me the need to post on this. That said, have to say I am incredibly depressed by the lack of compassion for lost lives in horrendous circumstances and how, for some people, it comes down to keeping score. Beyond sad.
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I am completely shocked as knowing Sharon Stone’s comments to the Sichuan earthquake. It is a first time I hear an ideas that someone described the temblor happened in China is very interesting thing. When asked about the Sichuan quake in the Cannes Film Festival, Sharon Stone didn’t express basic sympathy to death and hurted people instead of responding delightfully,“well, you know, it was very interesting… ” She talked and talked and talked all about her good friend, Dalai Lama. “I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else.” I can’t help to ask the idiot “Don’t you treat tens of thousands of innocent people including kids ,who never had a chance to make a choice died in this natural disaster, kindly, ah?”
Then ,she said continuously “And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics”I suppose most western think the Olympics is a trump to deal with Chinese government. But why don’t you consider the passion for Chinese hold a celebration successfully. Why don’t you take a look at the efforts what Chinese make for the celebration. Yes, absofuckinglutely you concerned about not the human rights, not the lifestyles, just politics.
The worst and shameless part yet to come.“And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: IS THAT KARMA… when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?” How could you say that ignorantly? Is this heavy lost of lives and a humanitarian disaster as a “Karma” for Chinese? If so, are all the quakes, fires, droughts and mudslides in California Karma too? it’s okay for people to say US deserved 9-11,right? You are well-dressed and as like your own political ideas. But please kindly point to government, the people of China don’t deserve the tragedy.
We deeply moved by Premier Wen ’s presence and words of encouragement reassure victims. We deeply moved by troops fight against time and difficulties to save lives. We deeply moved by tens of thousands of people make donations, not only money, insufficient supplies, but also the blood and love. Sharon Stone You just cried for a letter, from the Tibetan Foundation that they want to go and be helpful.
Having said this karma is a bitch, Sharon Stone ,you should suffer AIDS at first.
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How insensitive can Americans get?!?!
You guys also deserve BAD KARMA for all the atrocities you have brought to this world…
Just because your country is rich doesn’t mean that you have the right to bully other countries smaller than you are…
KATRINA was a natural disaster… Dont you think that was KARMA as well? Imagine that: the world’s biggest superpower could not stop a HURRICANE with all its sophisticated weapons and advanced aircrafts!
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I’m deeply saddened by some of the devilish & heartless comments that believe more than 80,000 innocent civilians died/missing as a result of karma. Many are babies & children whom have done nothing to deserve karma.
Sharon Stone comments are beyond not nice, it IS cruel!
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Quite frankly, earthquakes have nothing to do with politics, and anybody who has the energy to gossip about the opinions of a star should put that energy into aiding the earthquake instead.
Talking about Stone, I don’t care how, makes you as bad as she is. The worst thing to do to celebrities is to ignore them completely and go do something else.
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I sincerely hope that her comments were taken and then printed out of context.
If they weren’t, then she needs to just shut the fuck up already, and stay home to raise the three sons she adopted!
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Karma? 53% of the population in the most affected quake area is of Tibetan ethnicity. For someone who’s apparently deeply concerned with the welfare of Chinese Tibetans, she sure knows a lot about Tibet and China.
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To Scott F:
I was so shocked by your lack of knowledge about politics and history. You should get yourself educated a bit more, or at least do some research, before you start talking anything about China. I bet you have never been to China/Tibet and can’t even locate Tibet on a map! Here is a Chinese history and politics 101 for you!
As long as someone, hopefully not Americans, is still trying to use our neighbors to impair our state interest, we will never stop “paying for that regime”, just like what your government did for both Iraq and Iran, two regimes you call “Axis of Evil” now. Ironic, isn’t it? So be politics smart. As a Chinese saying goes, nobody would allow a stranger to sleep by the side of his bed. You Americans are smart. We Chinese are not fools. We know what we are doing! We use them, but that doesn’t mean we are their friend.
“They just walk in and occupy it”? Come on, Tibet has been part of China since 13th century, when “they” have not existed yet. We have never occupied Tibet, Tibetans requestd to form alliance with China in the first place in as early as 821 !!! By the way, guess who was behind the curtain and incited Dalai Lama to flee Tibet to India (the communists did not force him)? CIA! You don’t know all these truths, do you? Sure you don’t, ’cause CNN won’t tell you and your government won’t tell you. So, who should get accused of meddling in the affairs of other countries? I don’t even want to meddle in your domestic affairs here by mentioning how your ancestors just walked in and occupied the land that belonged to the Native Americans. A little killings, I guess? Learn some American history before pointing finger and try not to get amnestic.
If it wasn’t those “virtual slaves and indentured servants”, you wouldn’t even have been able to make ends meet. Also, be thankful to Chinese who are “raping the environment” so that you Americans can breathe cleaner air and enjoy the more inexpensive goods that you otherwise would not have deserved. I dare you to stop buying any “shit” from China from today on and see what will happen, you hypocrite! Without all the “Made in China” you might not even be able to get online and see my post today!
Yes, you Americans helped Chinese kick the Japanese out of China. How did we repay you? We, specifically, those in Taiwan, have been thanking you by purchasing your weapons worth up to billions of dollars every year since 1949. I don’t think you should complain anything about that.
That’s your choice to donate or not. I did donate to the Katrina victims, though. If you do, I would appreciate it. If not, who cares?! China is no longer the one 32 years ago when the other earthquake killed 240,000 people. We got through without any international aids even then. No big deal!
Birds of a feather flock together. Forget Sharon Stone and Dalai Lama! Even if it’s a Karma, So what?! We can stand it.
I am not trying to change you in any ways because we are allegiant to different countries. I like Americans in general, anyways. Instead of enemies, U.S. and China are and should be rivals, and China is just trying to be a more qualified one. Before you can eliminate it, face it and take it!
By the way, people obviously don’t have to be born, live in America, or even speak English to be an American. Learn some American politics too!
Language? Duh!
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To be fair NO ONE has actually said that the earthquake victims deserved what they got because they absolutely DID NOT and they were just the innocent victims in this natural disaster and everyone can sympathize with them. However, the issue here is about the Chinese government and their lack of sympathy and support for their own people and if they are not in position to offer help then who is? China has become very strong and economically stable and they seek to lead the world but that comes with responsibility of actually helping others/ other countries, so why are they not offering more help to the world and especially their people? This goes for Russia as well.
All of the leading countries seek to gain something when ever they offer their help to other countries but to be fair, America has, most of the time, put it’s opinions aside (even when it came to helping hostile to US countries) and has actually been there to help whenever it has been required.
Scott F does have some very good points about this and although some people might find offense with some of these issues, the point still remains that this are the cold hard facts. All countries, small or big, rich or poor have put their own input into continuing to damage the world and in the end, it is always the innocent public that always suffers but with this big and powerful countries like American, China Russia etc there is more damage to be made if they are not careful, so they need to be responsible and able to be as neutral with all countries as possible if they are going to run the world.
I think America has done a good job (not perfect obviously but still..) at being the leading country but I do not know if China and Russia can do the same if they are in that position.
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I am from north China, I was really shocked by the american words posted here. Amercians are really not so civilized as I thought.
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Chinese maybe hate their government but don’t hate their people,including the Tibetan.
You said it’s karma?
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Sharon Stone, an employee in an industry whose employee pool is renowned for their lack of academic prowess…comes up with this, and you folks are surprised?
I think the more appropriate question should be…Is Sharon Stone related to Jerry Falwell (who made a similar comment, only he substituted “Gods judgment” for “Karma”)?
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I am embarrassed that she made these remarks. The timing and the intent are thoughtless, cruel and unhumanitarian.
Her words and thoughts represent her not Americans.
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Sharon Stone is a has been that just wants some attention. Too bad the old YT Hollywood producers don’t give a rats-arse about an old prune that no one cares about and can’t recall when she was last seen in the movie theatres.
And for those people who commented that that China is being punished or that they “deserved” this natural disaster, all i can say is, “what goes around, WILL come around to you”.
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what a shame for americans, even for the westerners!!!
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so based on her logic,
1. what China had done to tibet was some kind of Karma too… the tibetains deserve this???
2. she was suffering from brain cancer, wasn’t she? maybe god found out that she has done no good to the planet with 154 IQ… so better took away and made her a monkey
3. 9/11… American people deserve this???
4. massive killing in Africa…. all the people living there deserve this???
AND PLEASE PAY ATTENTION
nearly half of the population in Wenchuan and other part of sichuan are from Tibet and other ethic minorities.. she is an idiolt to make some comments like that.
“I’m actually a friend of Dalai Lama.. ” this makes me laugh a lot…
Stone, stay away from Alchole and drugs, and retire gracefully !!!!
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I would seriously encourage everyone commenting to research the former Theistic government that ruled Tibet before Communism came to the area.
It’s hard for anyone to say if the Tibetans were better off under the priests than they are under the communists. Both systems greatly restricted the freedoms and quality of living for the Tibetans.
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I love china!China is a beautiful country.Especially in Sichuan.In this disaster,Chinese people united as one, common in disaster relief who harm the people.
A normal IQ of the Chinese people will not hate the Chinese Government.If there are no Chinese government’s timely rescue,The number of dead and missing would be far greater than 88000
by the way “stong” the Chinese pronunciation is the meaning of fornication
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Such a jerk. Should I say that it’s karma when US was attacked by terrorist in Sept 11, 2001? Such a disrespect to the deceased and injured. She should apologize for what she’d said.
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‘..WHY ALL THIS HATE? TRY TO COMMUNICATE, FINDING TRUST AND LOVE IS NOT ALWAYS EASY TO MAKE’
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It took me nearly an hour to read through the comments above and now feel quite uncomfortable.
Why on earth are people always fighting rather than caring each other?
There are people and people. There are governments and governments. There are policies and policies. No one is perfect. No government is perfect, either.
I am a 26 year-old Chinese from Guangzhou who has a western-oriented mind. I love jazz music, espresso, and “Prison Break”. However, I will NOT accept any discriminating or prejudiced critics about China based on groundless stories.
It is true that, to some extent, we still have large room to improve, to catch up with the world trends. Nevertheless, please do not overlook our efforts and sincerity. It really takes time to make something different, to make things better. But please do take note that we are doing it.
I do not wonder why so many Americans like Scott F who criticize China like that. Just as no wonder why so many Chinese criticize the US more or less the same way. Well, we all have something to be criticized, which is more than natural. You do not know us as we do not know you. If you paid a visit to China, you would have found a lot more truth. For us, if we paid a visit to the US, we would have seen a lot more things, good or bad.
On my stand of point, most Americans and Chinese are good people, not necessarily being smart or objective. Governments are governments. Officials are officials. People are people. Let’s make it clear.
As a human being, no matter what your nationality is, what your color is, what “-ism” you support, what religion you believe in, who your enemy is, we have got to be humane. You are not cold-blooded, are you?
“I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. “—said Sharon Karma Stone(-hearted)
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I am so surprised to read these comments from your American guys. We (Chinese) all cried and felt sorrow for all the victims and families in 9.11. No one said in China that 9.11
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I think sharon stone is an old hag, but I think you guys may have taken her comments out of context just a tad on this post….
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