In Brief: Wang Shuo on Democracy in China

ChinaGeeks has translated a brief quotation from writer Wang Shuo about democracy in China, which is currently making the rounds in Chinese cyberspace:

A people without elections, without property, and without political rights getting together and having lofty discussions about the downsides of democracy…it’s like seeing a group of court eunuchs saying ‘having a sex life hurts the body, thank god we’re castrated’ or seeing a group of beggars saying ‘money is such a dirty thing, our way of begging for food is much cleaner.’

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