Joining the list of Beijing’s most reviled Americans alongside such luminaries as Jack Cafferty, Nancy Pelosi and Mia Farrow, is Sharon Stone.
In calling the recent earthquake in China ‘bad Karma’ due to Beijing’s treatment of its Tibetan minority, has Stone gone over the line? According to China’s rigidly-controlled state press:
“She may enjoy first class facilities; but her remarks show that she has third-class mentality … The first signal from the Chinese government, which is to stop screening all of Sharon Stone’s films, is a step in the right direction. Plans should also be made to boycott all products tied to Stone. By her own doing – this is what ‘karma’ is all about.”
People’s Republic of China – Xinhua – Original Article (English)
May 29, 2008
BEIJING: U.S. actress Sharon Stone has created a storm of criticism and condemnation in China, after suggesting that the devastating earthquake on May 12 that killed over 68,000 people was “bad karma” because of China’s Tibet policy.
Stone, 50, made the remarks at the Cannes Film Festival last week, leading to pledges by many cinemas on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong not to show her films again, and reportedly motivating a cosmetics chain [Christian Dior] to remove advertisements with her image.
Among all the Chinese people, such disgusting remarks spark great rage. Also shocked is Sam Teng, a netizen of CCTV.com from Malaysia, who writes that Sharon Stone has a heart as cold as stone:
“I was utterly shocked and furious to hear Sharon Stone’s disgusting remarks that the earthquake in Sichuan is “karma.” At a moment when millions of people are displaced, 60,000 killed and another 20,000 missing, Chinese people around the world – including many foreign sympathizers – are greatly saddened. The survivors continue to struggle to find safer dwellings in the face of the expected rains and the risk of flooding. As such, I find Sharon Stone’s remark insensitive and inhumane. Where’s your sympathy?
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