This evil Toronto Star coverage of China’s one-child policy is stunning. The callous cruelty of such carefree reporting on this tragedy is abominable. Those Chinese given permission to have two children may well be happier than when they were only permitted one child, but to report at face value that they are happy, period, is the kind of euphemstic spin you’d expect from a self-serving totalitarian regime. The writer also says that “equally important” as making the Chinese guinea pigs happy was the fact that the two-child policy did not require as much heavy-handed enforcement. The reduced need for brutal enforcement is indeed a good outcome, but to call it equally important with the growth in freedom of the people reflects a goulish, state-ist mentality. Especially when he goes on to discuss the lighter enforcement requirements from the perspective of the government officials rather than the recipients of the beatings and other cruelty. We are shocked that such sentiments would appear in print in Canada in anything other than a scandalous, underground rag. But they appeared in the Toronto Star, in an article by Bill Schiller.  Read more... (824 words, estimated 3:18 mins reading time)