Every Chinese understands democracy means majority rule. What
Chinese didn’t understand is what to do with the minority, the people with unpopular opinins. In fact, people
around the world who are new to western democracy all made the same mistakes:
the minority were oppressed or even prosecuted, when they should be protected.
What Chinese didn’t understand is that, there is no democracy if the minority’s
rights are not protected. Noam Chomsky once famously said: if we don’t believe
in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all“.
If we can’t protect everyone’s rights, then we can’t protect anyone’s rights.
It could be yours today and get taken away from you tomorrow.”
