Someone left a comment after my article yesterday, saying, “The Red Guards were bad people who beat and killed people back then, so as a descendant of the Red Guards, how can you have ‘supreme pride’?”
I looked at my article again, but I couldn’t find the words “descendants of the Red Guards” and “supreme pride” that he mentioned, so I don’t know how he came up with them.
What does what the Red Guards did have to do with the descendants of the Red Guards? It is common sense that the Red Guards are responsible for what the Red Guards did, and the descendants of the Red Guards are responsible for what the descendants of the Red Guards do. We’re not the Chinese Communist Party, should we also be punished by the nine clans? Even if a Red Guard has done bad things, his descendants have no right to have “supreme pride”? Why can’t you figure out such a simple reason?
Besides, the Red Guards, the Red Guards did do some bad things, but those who beat and killed are very few, most of the Red Guards back then is just marching and shouting slogans, writing large-character posters criticizing teachers and so on, really involved in martial arts, or wounded and killed, that is very few, not a Penny to sink a boatload of people.
Secondly, we must understand that the Red Guards were only secondary school students, immature in personality, coupled with years of brainwashing by the Chinese Communist Party, and the Cultural Revolution pushed the cult of Mao Zedong to its peak. The Red Guards were encouraged by Mao to revolt and became tools of Mao’s political struggle, and after the Cultural Revolution they were used up and abandoned and sent to remote mountain villages to work and reform. The Red Guards were not born villains; they were a generation that was deluded, incited, and coerced.
At that age, in that socio-political atmosphere, not to mention the teenagers, the entire country of 600 million people, who dared to disobey? Everyone was swept up in that wild current of history and could not get out of it.
Therefore, you can criticize the Red Guards as a whole, and those who really did some bad things should also reflect deeply and criticize themselves, but you are too radical to say that a whole generation of Red Guards are bad people, so bad that even their descendants can not have “the highest pride”. You are not the magistrate of history, and you have no right to deny generations of Chinese people in this way.
There is no need to discuss the descendants of the Red Guards who fled Hong Kong, each one has his own destiny. To say that they cannot have “supreme pride” is such a shallow and arbitrary view, one should read more and do a little self-reflection.
Among the Red Guards who escaped from Hong Kong, there is a significant portion of them who are still obsessed with the sentiments of the past. Why is it so? Didn’t they suffer from the Communist Party? Didn’t they come to Hong Kong and make their own little world in Hong Kong and enjoy all the freedom, rule of law and equality in Hong Kong? Don’t they understand the cruelty of the Chinese Communist Party, don’t they understand the basic rights and wrongs by comparing the Mainland and Hong Kong?
Yes, there is such a kind of people in the world who have been living in the past for decades, living in their personal little world, which has not changed for decades and does not intend to change.
It is important to understand that this generation is the generation that has been brainwashed and poisoned the most by the Chinese Communist Party. They have left the most of Mao’s ideological legacy, and they have been using Mao’s ideological methods for decades, and they are living according to the values of their teenage years. When they came to Hong Kong, most of them were already in their twenties and nearly thirties, and their thinking had long been set in stone (just like me), but they lived in Hong Kong for decades without the consciousness to reflect on themselves and clean up their own outlook and values. They have long since ceased to be Red Guards, but they still have a strong Red Guard sentiment in them.
Let’s say a person in the past world, because of the circumstances, the middle door of the house is wide open, allowing a group of villains to come to live in the house, these villains to raise the long in and out, dominate the courtyard hall, bedroom kitchen, how to drive away. Then the new world came (came to Hong Kong), the host family could have blown the villains away, but the hosts had long been accustomed to living with the villains at this time, they drove them away instead of feeling empty, so they chose to live in peace with the villains, and did not feel that their homes were occupied.
The majority of the Red Guards, the blue silk, are this kind of people. Hong Kong is a free society. If he doesn’t reflect, who can help him? If he does not reflect, he is still a Red Guard, and he is living in this capitalist paradise of Hong Kong with the ideology and attitude of the Red Guards. In ordinary years, of course, he would have worked for a living, like everyone else, to support his family, but when serious political issues are put before them, they conveniently choose the camp of patriotism and love of the Party out of their inherent ideological position, or even out of their own subconscious.
It is painful to reflect and analyze yourself, it is simply “not to live with yourself”, it takes a lot of effort, to be uninterrupted and unforgiving, but you struggle with yourself for decades, you recapture the self, it is still worth it, because you no longer live for the party and Mao Zedong, you live only for yourself.
Of course, there are some Red Guards for personal fame and fortune, for business, for camping and sell their conscience, that is not worth discussing.
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