A law prohibiting women from working shifts late at night or in the early morning hours was declared unconstitutional by Taiwan's Constitutional Court on Friday because of the guarantee of equality before the law under the Constitution.
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202108200020
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過3萬的網紅Brian2Taiwan,也在其Youtube影片中提到,Self-Edited, Self-Captioned, Filmed with help from Nomad Bears. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Today (5/24/2019)was the first day of legalized gay marriage in Taiwan. Marri...
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#Opinion by Wu Si-Bang 吳思邦|"When the cost of fighting both inside and outside the legislative council is rapidly rising, it will only plant more seeds of uncertainty for the future development of Hong Kong."
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Battle between Freedom and Equality | Lee Yee
A netizen left a comment under my article from a couple of days ago, and said that if Trump is re-elected, he would turn “dictatorial”, and pursue “Trump thinking as mainstream”. He said that he “divides the United States and gave birth to racism, white nationalism, and xenophobia”, which is disastrous to human civilization, etc.
Under the constitutional system of the United States, one will have to step down after one re-election, and there is no way to bring about a dictatorship. Moreover, just look at all the stormy attacks mainstream media throws towards him, how is one to become a dictator? In a multicultural America, how could any almighty notion exist? As for racism and xenophobia, the cited example is him crowning the novel coronavirus “Chinese virus”, and the media claimed that this has caused a sharp increase in anti-Chinese speech online. But the virus did originate in China, did it not?
Other than the infiltration of Chinese interests that drove the U.S. media’s anti-Trump campaign, it has also been the “leftard” ideologies that have dominated academia and the press. How does one define “leftard”? Something that So Keng-chit said a few days ago was very appropriate, "the definition of “leftard” is that they replace strong and weak with “wrong and “right”; strong must be “wrong”, and weak must be “right”. Leftards uplift the weak by putting down the bullies to attain moral high grounds. The leftards must oppose the United States, for the see the United States as strong. The leftards sympathize with Saddam Hussein, because compared with the United States, Saddam Hussein is weak. They cannot see that Saddam Hussein is strong compared with the Iraqis. Hence the ‘tard’ in leftard.”
It is not that they cannot see, they are just intentionally not seeing. The mainstream media reports about Iraq after Saddam Hussein had fallen were that there was no longer a stronghold of a government, which led to the loss of societal management. Bombs were exploding daily, and blood flooded the land of the country. People lost homes and livelihoods. However, data showed that in the later phase of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq’s population was 26 million, and the per capita GDP was only US$625, not to mention that the inflation rate was high in the three digits. After the United States attacked Iraq and introduced the democratic system, the Iraqi population has risen to 35 million, the per capita GDP has increased to US$4,600, and the inflation rate has dropped to 6%. Despite the global economic slowdown, the Iraqi economy has grown by an average of 9.9% per year for more than a decade.
In addition, the mainstream media rarely reported the substantial progress in Afghanistan’s economy and people’s livelihood after the United States eradicated the Taliban regime before establishing a democratic system in Afghanistan. It is rarely reported that after South Africa got rid of the white regime, social security was horrifying. It is because such truthful reporting is not politically correct.
Shouldn’t the motto of news publishing be “all news worth reporting”? When political correctness overrides this creed, there is no longer press freedom.
The so-called political correctness stems from anti-discrimination. Anti-discrimination means upholding the concept that “all men are born equal”, and to protect vulnerable groups. Anti-discrimination used to be a kind of progress, since the starting point is not the interests of the majority of society, but the moral and spiritual demands. But when this kind of protection gradually develops into a disregard towards differences and the diversity of human life, it becomes leftards who wave around the banner of political correctness. If the welfare of new immigrants is treated the same as that of local residents, how is that different from obliterating the long-term tax payment of local residents? Using Black Lives Matter to rationalize violence and chaos, you get Black Lives Better, and ignore the fundamental problems of the root causes of issues such as the Black community’s slighting of education; with the police worrying that law enforcement will cause them trouble, the crime in the Black areas will increase. Anti-discrimination has developed into a state where even praising women for being beautiful is discrimination. Obama once praised the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris as the most beautiful State Attorney General in the United States, and was then accused of discrimination by feminists. He was forced to apologize. To protect LGBT, many American college toilets no longer distinguish between men and women, making women fearful.
“All men are born equal” is a false proposition. Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and others are born in the slums of Africa. How are they born equal? American conservative Russel Kirk said that we must pay attention to diversity and differences. Only before God and a fair court can there be true quality; all other attempts to achieve equality will inevitably lead to societal stagnation. If the balance of natural differences and conventions is tipped in order to pursue equality for all, then it will not be long before tyrants or despicable oligarchs start to create new inequalities.
Socialism waves around the banner of equality, and has been breeding tyranny for a whole century. Modern leftards is another form of pursuit of equality, one that is destroying the freedom of human society. Freedom is more important than equality. If there is no freedom, there will be no equality among people who are not free.
This U.S. general election may as well be regarded as a battle between freedom and equality.
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Today (5/24/2019)was the first day of legalized gay marriage in Taiwan. Marriage equality was passed by the legislature last Friday (5/17), and signed into law earlier this week. Because of this, Taiwan’s first gay wedding was held with a group of devoted couples getting married together.
今天(2019/05/17)是台灣同性結婚合法化的第一天. 立法院成功通過同婚法律在上個禮拜五(05/17).因此在台北有舉辦台灣第一個同性婚禮.
I went to the group wedding event today in Taipei at the Xinyi Administration Center to support the brave people who decided to get married as soon as they possibly could.
我這個外國人去台北市信義區行政中心的集體婚禮支持今天很勇敢地一可以結婚就結婚的新人.
In the park across from Taipei 101, the beautiful couples came together with family, friends, and complete strangers (like me) who support their love to celebrate. In attendance was also Chi Chia-Wei, a well known gay rights activist as well as many diplomats from
在台北101對面的公園裡,美麗的幾對新人一起來在支持他們的愛的親戚、朋友、還有陌生人(像是我)的目前慶祝他們的愛. 參與人也有包括祁家威,台灣知名同性平權的支持者還有許多國家的代表.
It was a beautiful day for a beautiful wedding.
很適合婚禮的美好一天.
Congratulations to all of the newlywed couples! May many years of happiness stand before you!!!
各對新人,恭喜你們/妳們! 希望妳們/你們的未來會有許多年的幸福快樂!!!
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Special thanks to Nomad Bears YouTube channel’s Lucy and Jesse for coming with me and helping me get so much great footage of the wedding today. Visit their channel and subscribe to them:
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特別感謝Nomad Bears YouTube頻道的Lucy跟Jesse今天陪我去幫我拍到那麼多美麗的片段!去看他們的頻道也記得訂閱:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXYBSbHg28oH5TApqmIySRQ
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