It's over! Hurray! There's a compromise. I won't go into details because posters on this topic at VWK have done a marvelous job. Many thanks to:
- Zach for posting the details in the solving the controversy thread.
- MT for posting a link to the San Jose Mercury News article on the agreement that ended this mess on the Ly Tong hunger striker posting.
- Everyone who participated, whether you read and lurked, or if you jumped into the fray with comments.
We had lots of contentious, but productive debate on the original thread. I'm sure you didn't think you'd get your opinions out on a food blog and I didn't think the blog would evolve in this way. However, I'm glad it has and did. We learned lots about ourselves as individuals and as a community.
Go and cook and share good food with family and friends and mull over this historic chapter in Vietnamese
American history. For me at the end of the day it boils down to this: We don't look, cook, and think the same! That's a good thing.
vietguy says
Well, what did i said in my previous post. We will prevail. For those of you who showed disrespect to Ly Tong and the Vietnamese community , slap your faces a few times and wake up. Thanks to Zach and Michelle for patiently explained to those stubborn anti-Little Saigon. Those anti-Little Saigon just too naive to think that we fight just for the name, but dont really see the big picture that we want to accomplish here for today and for the future (and perhaphs not just for our voice in SJ). A
Anonymous says
Whoever Vietguy is! Your comments are so stubborn. You don't unite people...Slap here and slap there! Please. You need to look at your comments and don't think only one way! Grow up!
For Ly Tong, please! Can he really survive without food in 30 days? We are not kids to believe in that...please be more realistic. Once was an honorable, but not anymore.
Zach says
To the previous poster regarding Ly Tong's hunger strike. Though you might not believe it, but you cannot put down someone just because you haven't gathered all the facts. For the first 20 something days, Ly Tong gave up food but he still drank water. For a person with moderate hydration, they can survive without food for a long time. It's been cited that other hunger strikers were able to give up food for even up to 40 days. How long you last depend on your health, metabolism, age, etc. Gandhi
Zach says
Oh and the link for how long you can survive without water is: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/219905/how_long_can_a_person_live_without.html