Chinese Outraged by Sharon Stone's Quake Karma Remarks

[saikira]

Sharon Stone said at the Cannes Film Festival: "I thought, 'Is that karma?' When you are not nice, bad things happen to you."

Film star Sharon Stone has set off a storm of fury across China after she suggested the deadly earthquake that killed as many as 80,000 people was bad karma for Beijing policy in Tibet. (A video of Stone's 'inappropriate' quake karma remarks attached below.)

Stone said she "cried" after the Tibetan Foundation asked her to help quake victims: "they wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry. It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren't nice to you."

She also said, "I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOqx22Obns


Stone's remarks lead to pledges by some Chinese cinemas not to show her films, and reportedly motivating Dior to remove advertisements with her image in China.

Her comments also created a swell of anger on the internet, including famous Chinese public forum Tianya.cn devoted solely to disparaging her comments.

Source: Nzherald, BBC

[ev0luti0nzer0]

stupid comments by stupid celebrities (not all celebs are stupid)

[lieke]

That's a stupid and rude thing to say. The people who died in the earthquake are not the ones with a "bad karma", it's not like they deserved to die or anything..

[Otaku515 Dj-san]

lol sharon stone fails what a stupid thing to say , it is like saying the tornado victims in the USA are because of the bad karma of their goverment actions in Iraq

[collegeboy]

some of you are being hypocrites
when you hurt innocents,you can only expect your innocent people to get hurt by a higher force
after what happend in tibet,they should've expected such thing...too bad innocent civilians have to pay for their leaders and army's atrocities
my chinese friend lost a freind in that catastrophy

[1337rice]

lol she received her karma =P
she lost $4.3 billion dollars, lost the Dior China commercials, all movies that have her picture on it will not be shown in theaters.
her agent....is suing her

[asay]

where the hell did you pull $4.3billion from????? I doubt she even has $500million

[1337rice]

hmm...then i guess it might be $4.3 million...

[gg.heato]

no need to call others hypocrites cuz they dont share your opinion boy.

i think karma doesnt exist. stuff happens. coincidence? most likely. i doubt that kami-sama or any other ultra powerful being wanted to punish the chinese for what they do.

if jesus (according to the bible) didnt punish the guys that were whipping him and eventually crucified him, i doubt he'll wanna punish someone that is doing something to someone else.

if your buddist, muslim, or whatever religion you are, im sure the first thing they are against of is violence.

[nurul_hussin]

slap her she speaks rubbish!!!!
there's no need to abuse her freedom of speech. the victims are miserable enough. there's no need to add their pain by giving brainless comments

[changeling]

I don't think anyone's outrage at that comment is being hypocritical. What I find hypocritical is that Sharon Stone is living in a Nation that has probably caused just as much suffering, think Iraq, Afghanistan, even the Guantanamo Bay controversies.

Also, telling a people after a natural disaster of this scale that, they deserved it, is decidedly cold-hearted. No nation in the world has no blood on their hands, but death will always be a tragedy.

[dyesan]

Her statement about karma is completely illogical; though I do side with her concerning the Tibetan case.

[Yue Hikaru]

it shows that face and brain is not always in synch.