In February-March, 1947, an island-wide armed insurrection broke out in Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek when hearing of this news in China ordered his General to got to Taiwan and try to talk to the Rebel’s and ask them to please behave. After all attempts to negotiate with the rebels that were burning buildings, looting and shooting people in cold blood in Taipei the general decided (without Chiang’s knowledge) too shoot the rebels if they did not stop misbehaving. The result was a proven death toll of under 1500 rebels. This event was later hi-jacked by a group of people that saw an opportunity to spread their racist views and create social problems for Chiang. This group conspired to spread lies that not only did Chiang’s troops kill the rebels but also the lawyers, professors, physicians, politicians, journalists, college students, and WWII veterans (that were killed by the rebels) were now Chiang’s troops liabilities – In fact Chiang did it himself and the event became a “massacre” and the death toll became “over 20,000” and the killing was done as an ethnic issue. The group changed the story into an event where there weren't even any Taiwanese rebels. The “Formosan’s” were just minding their own business when the KMT decided they didn’t like the way the “Taiwan savages” did not respect them properly so they decided to “shoot a bunch” to show who’s the boss.
Now 60 years later that tiny group of racists are in power and every election year their twisted story regarding Chiang’s right to put down an insurrection and how it was now a “holocaust” Is played repetitively in Taiwan media like a cheap consumer goods commercial. It is debated days on end like it happened yesterday and Chiang is cursed. In fact the event that’s called 2-28 is so hyped up it is an asset of the party! If one of the party members let his truthful feelings be heard about 2-28, it may sound like this –
I thank god he gave our DPP party the 2-28 holocaust. 2-28 is a great day for us Taiwanese because without the event we would not be here today, we would have nothing to blast all over the airwaves from December thru April every year and therefore those few extra Taiwanese might not have voted for us and the KMT would still be in power. Im sure without the 2-28, we could possibly have manufactured a different evil event to pin on them and blast all over the media come election year. But the 2-28 is the best thing that could have happened because many people died and that means we can call it a Holocaust and put Chiang in the same pigeon hole as Hitler.
Now wasn’t what I just wrote on 2-28 silly? Did it even make you upset perhaps? Obviously how events unfolded and played out were not so one sided towards favoring the KMT but I wrote it that way to cause emotion in anyone that really cared and in my opinion that is what the DPP has done to this historical event. They have re-wrote the 2-28 event to appear as hurtful and damning against the Taiwanese as possible. The proof is in its over use by the party as a weapon that makes the opposition party appear as evil, Taiwanese hating as possible. Its human nature that we all tend to pad stories in our favor especially in the do-or-die situation of a Taiwan election.
Everything that ever happens where two or more people are involved there is two or more stories of what happened. The 228 incident is no exception, there is the KMT version and there is the DPP version. And fact of the matter a lot of the data about the event is hearsay, not proven or no longer exists because the KMT destroyed it. Therefore nobody really knows for sure how many were killed? Lee Ao says 1200, the DPP says of 30,000. I on the other hand find the deaths of the people being used like “kills” in how bad an "uninvited" invader controled the native population rather disgusting. The DPP’s constant banging on pots and pans yelling through Taiwan’s streets – Chiang killed 30,000 of us – Vote for me! Is sick! Even if only one person died, if Chiang’s troops were wrong concerning the death its just as bad as 30,000. so the higher the death toll the better mentality behind the DPP’s version only equates to higher death toll + constant public broadcasting = most possible votes. The very fact that the 2-28 incident is ratcheted up to its greatest “visibility” setting each election year is 100% proof the event is only dear to DPP party members as a vote grabbing tool – nothing else.
What if there was no 2-28? Would the deep green Taiwanese like Chiang more? Hell no, even if Chiang was an absolute angel they would still hate him because the DPP are racists, Chiang is a mainlander and because of Chiang the USA did not give Taiwan to the Taiwanese after Japan’s surrender, instead Taiwan was given to The republic of China in a “flip of the coin” change in course of Taiwan’s history. To this day the Taiwanese hate Chiang because the USA gave him Taiwan. The 2-28 event is as irrelevant as the Japanese massacres of native Taiwanese when they were the government on Taiwan.
Now 60 years later that tiny group of racists are in power and every election year their twisted story regarding Chiang’s right to put down an insurrection and how it was now a “holocaust” Is played repetitively in Taiwan media like a cheap consumer goods commercial. It is debated days on end like it happened yesterday and Chiang is cursed. In fact the event that’s called 2-28 is so hyped up it is an asset of the party! If one of the party members let his truthful feelings be heard about 2-28, it may sound like this –
I thank god he gave our DPP party the 2-28 holocaust. 2-28 is a great day for us Taiwanese because without the event we would not be here today, we would have nothing to blast all over the airwaves from December thru April every year and therefore those few extra Taiwanese might not have voted for us and the KMT would still be in power. Im sure without the 2-28, we could possibly have manufactured a different evil event to pin on them and blast all over the media come election year. But the 2-28 is the best thing that could have happened because many people died and that means we can call it a Holocaust and put Chiang in the same pigeon hole as Hitler.
Now wasn’t what I just wrote on 2-28 silly? Did it even make you upset perhaps? Obviously how events unfolded and played out were not so one sided towards favoring the KMT but I wrote it that way to cause emotion in anyone that really cared and in my opinion that is what the DPP has done to this historical event. They have re-wrote the 2-28 event to appear as hurtful and damning against the Taiwanese as possible. The proof is in its over use by the party as a weapon that makes the opposition party appear as evil, Taiwanese hating as possible. Its human nature that we all tend to pad stories in our favor especially in the do-or-die situation of a Taiwan election.
Everything that ever happens where two or more people are involved there is two or more stories of what happened. The 228 incident is no exception, there is the KMT version and there is the DPP version. And fact of the matter a lot of the data about the event is hearsay, not proven or no longer exists because the KMT destroyed it. Therefore nobody really knows for sure how many were killed? Lee Ao says 1200, the DPP says of 30,000. I on the other hand find the deaths of the people being used like “kills” in how bad an "uninvited" invader controled the native population rather disgusting. The DPP’s constant banging on pots and pans yelling through Taiwan’s streets – Chiang killed 30,000 of us – Vote for me! Is sick! Even if only one person died, if Chiang’s troops were wrong concerning the death its just as bad as 30,000. so the higher the death toll the better mentality behind the DPP’s version only equates to higher death toll + constant public broadcasting = most possible votes. The very fact that the 2-28 incident is ratcheted up to its greatest “visibility” setting each election year is 100% proof the event is only dear to DPP party members as a vote grabbing tool – nothing else.
What if there was no 2-28? Would the deep green Taiwanese like Chiang more? Hell no, even if Chiang was an absolute angel they would still hate him because the DPP are racists, Chiang is a mainlander and because of Chiang the USA did not give Taiwan to the Taiwanese after Japan’s surrender, instead Taiwan was given to The republic of China in a “flip of the coin” change in course of Taiwan’s history. To this day the Taiwanese hate Chiang because the USA gave him Taiwan. The 2-28 event is as irrelevant as the Japanese massacres of native Taiwanese when they were the government on Taiwan.
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