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When Patrick Nip demands loyalty from civil servants
(16 May) To the almighty Secretary Patrick Nip, do you know what you're saying when you demand '"loyalty" from civil servants?
In [the 1985 essay,] A Second Kind of Loyalty, Liu Binyan divided "loyalty" into two types. In the first type of loyalty, you had to perfectly demonstrate that you were "hardworking, uncomplaining, honest and obedient, without any objections". But perhaps you didn't know - or didn't want to know - that there is a "second kind of loyalty" that is "not very popular" and "puts your invaluable freedom, happiness and even life at stake".
Liu joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his youth, but he was not blindly loyal to it. In 1957, he was deemed a "rightist". He was accused once again of being "anti-party" during the Cultural Revolution. After the 1986 Chinese student demonstrations, Deng Xiaoping criticised him by name and expelled him from the Party. After the June Fourth Massacre, he went into exile and died in 2005 on American soil. In 2010, his ashes were finally allowed to return to China for burial. However, the epitaph that Liu wrote for himself while living was not inscribed on his grave: "Here lies a Chinese person who did some things that it was right for him to do, and said some things that were right that a person say."
The "second kind of loyalty" is to "do what is right for one to do and say what is right for one to say". Those who know only the "first kind of loyalty" are only voluntary slaves...
"Loyalty, like beauty, comes in different varieties. One kind of loyalty is hardworking, uncomplaining, honest and obedient, without any objections. One has to sacrifice more or less some personal benefit but is relatively safe and straightforward. This will generally not invite disaster. Because it [loyalty] is cute, one can easily move up in their career.
"The second kind of loyalty... is not very popular. It puts your invaluable freedom, happiness and even life at stake.
"For many years, the former kind of loyalty received special love and care. It was constantly irrigated and fertilized, and so it grew strong and lush. This was also what the era needed and there was nothing wrong with it.
"In contrast, the second kind of loyalty is weak and sparse in our political fields. It is almost a miracle that it has survived in dry, barren soil and not gone extinct."
Source: Stand News
#loyalty #civilservants #PatrickNip
When Patrick Nip demands loyalty from civil servants
(16 May) To the almighty Secretary Patrick Nip, do you know what you're saying when you demand '"loyalty" from civil servants?
In [the 1985 essay,] A Second Kind of Loyalty, Liu Binyan divided "loyalty" into two types. In the first type of loyalty, you had to perfectly demonstrate that you were "hardworking, uncomplaining, honest and obedient, without any objections". But perhaps you didn't know - or didn't want to know - that there is a "second kind of loyalty" that is "not very popular" and "puts your invaluable freedom, happiness and even life at stake".
Liu joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his youth, but he was not blindly loyal to it. In 1957, he was deemed a "rightist". He was accused once again of being "anti-party" during the Cultural Revolution. After the 1986 Chinese student demonstrations, Deng Xiaoping criticised him by name and expelled him from the Party. After the June Fourth Massacre, he went into exile and died in 2005 on American soil. In 2010, his ashes were finally allowed to return to China for burial. However, the epitaph that Liu wrote for himself while living was not inscribed on his grave: "Here lies a Chinese person who did some things that it was right for him to do, and said some things that were right that a person say."
The "second kind of loyalty" is to "do what is right for one to do and say what is right for one to say". Those who know only the "first kind of loyalty" are only voluntary slaves...
"Loyalty, like beauty, comes in different varieties. One kind of loyalty is hardworking, uncomplaining, honest and obedient, without any objections. One has to sacrifice more or less some personal benefit but is relatively safe and straightforward. This will generally not invite disaster. Because it [loyalty] is cute, one can easily move up in their career.
"The second kind of loyalty... is not very popular. It puts your invaluable freedom, happiness and even life at stake.
"For many years, the former kind of loyalty received special love and care. It was constantly irrigated and fertilized, and so it grew strong and lush. This was also what the era needed and there was nothing wrong with it.
"In contrast, the second kind of loyalty is weak and sparse in our political fields. It is almost a miracle that it has survived in dry, barren soil and not gone extinct."
Source: Stand News
#loyalty #civilservants #PatrickNip
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