Jing’s Rules of Discourse

The infamous commenter Jing of Marmot’s Hole fame has started his own blog. Not being one who subscribes to the theory that decorum requires us to conceal the abhorrent beneath a blanket of smiley equivalency, I’d like to welcome Jing to this tough room we call the blogosphere by engaging in a little Maoist criticism of what I like to call Jing’s Rules of Discourse:

1. If someone criticizes your position, go for the anti-Semitic angle:

Ahh the covetous shylock on the attack. Don’t mind [ZF], he seems to have a strange China fixation that is unhealthy to say the least.

Comment by Jing from — August 22, 2004 (Sunday) @ 2:10 pm

I wouldn’t know about calling Mr. [Thomas] Barnett a hard-nosed realist, as quite frankly he does qualify as a neo-conservative. However, unlike ersatz-Likudniks such as Krauthammer et all, policy need not be determined solely by the security concerns of Israel. . . . .

Comment by Jing from — November 13, 2004 (Saturday) @ 11:36 am.

If I was being anti-semitic, I would have called him a jew. As it stands, I was imply using a literary metaphor to more effectively and colourfuly convey a message. One does that in English yes? I understand it could be construed as anti-semitic, but as I don’t even know if the person in question is Jewish or not it makes it somewhat irrelevant.

Got a problem with that Jewgar of Jewlingrad?

Comment by Jing from — August 23, 2004 (Monday) @ 4:46 pm

2. Be a class act, and show it.

Wonsanghetto, I’m not going to even bother with civility. Where the hell did I even mention Jews at all you dumb ass?

As for Tron . . . [s]uffice it to say, I’m tired of having to repeat myself and am not even going to bother correcting your errors and will leave other people to read what they will. If they are stupid enough to believe your crap, then so be it.

Comment by Jing from — November 14, 2004 (Sunday) @ 7:03 am

You really are an idiot [ZF].

Comment by Jing from — August 23, 2004 (Monday) @ 5:29 am

I know a lot of you are American conservatives who are naturally predicated toward either a)stupidity b)china bashing but you only need to examine the facts as they stand at present to see that China has no nefarious designs on Korean territory. Instead of conjuring half baked theories about the next red menace.

Comment by Jing from — August 18, 2004 (Wednesday) @ 12:20 pm

You know what, fuck you WonsanGhetto. If you want to think I’m some sort of anti-semitic fascist racial supremacist. Go right on ahead. Maybe from now on I should simply refer to you as Hymie Kimstein and make things easier for you. For anyone else who wants to have an actual discussion that doesn’t involve flying accusations and childish non-sequiturs then proceed.

Comment by Jing from — November 14, 2004 (Sunday) @ 1:40 pm

3. Threaten peoples’ kids. People think that’s funny.

Nice words, coming from someone who’ll almost certainly never have any. Starts off as aspirational (and cliche), then veers right to the kid-killing. Always an effective tool of persuasion, and chicks really dig it.

4. Remind your neighbors that you aspire to colonize them. It’s funny when you do that, too. Exhibit A:

Oy vey, you try to discuss something serious and what do I get? Naked mercantalism and sheer ignorance! . . . As for your wish to see the economic collapse of China, well I won’t bother with deconstructing this but suffice it to say”¦ Perhaps the evil Chinese militarists should seek to forelay any economic collapse by gearing their industries for war. Afterall, we need our lebensraum too and the Korean peninsula looks mighty tempting. . . .

Comment by Jing from — November 14, 2004 (Sunday) @ 5:32 am

Exhibit B: This map of China ought to get plenty of laughs in Japan and Korea. Readers in Korea, I beg of you–read Jing’s site every day and internalize its wisdom.

5. Defend the indefensable, in this case, the use by Chinese police of cattle prods against North Korean refugees:

Both those weapons the officers carried were specifically designed for security duty and not to coral [sic] cows. Cattle prods aren’t even resigned for “putting down” big animals, they are designed to irritate them enough to get them moving in a certain direction.

I fully admit that the likely fate for these would be defectors will be “unpleasant” to say the least and I wish China would not send them back to North Korea. Unfortunately nothing can be done and the world is full of unpleasantries that most people would rather not know about. . . .

Comment by Jing from — October 26, 2004 (Tuesday) @ 7:51 am

Don’t worry about a little credibility, Jing. You can always get more later.

6. Always, always, always–toe the Party line:

About the number of Chinese Catholics, I am really skeptical that there are actually several million “underground” Catholics as is claimed. There really is no statistical data to validate this (as far as I am aware) and I’ve never heard anyone actually provide any evidence to substantiate this figure. [Link]

No statistical evidence on the number of religious dissidents in a repressive fascist state? Nope, I can’t explain that.

7. When confronted with uncomfortable facts, run.

Jing–probably the most effective propagandist the CIA never paid.