Did the 228 Incident Deprive a Generation of Elites' Lives and All the Beautiful Possibilities for Taiwan?

This article criticizes the narrative that attributes all of Taiwan's current political, economic, educational, and cultural problems to the 'elites of the **Japanese Occupation Era**' whose lives were taken during the 228 Incident. The author dismisses this narrative as beautifully packaged rhetoric full of wonderful imagination and 'ridiculous bullshit.' Using the painter Chen Cheng-po as an example, the article points out his true role in the 228 Incident was a 'Taiwan Regional Council Representative,' not merely an artist, and questions why these 'Japanese Occupation Era elites' failed to prevent the Japanese military's wartime actions, the Comfort Women issue, or Kōminka (Japanization) education. The author sarcastically notes these elites failed to stop the Japanese military from eradicating Chinese culture and suggests that true 'Chinese culture' is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Taiwanese people, independent of the 'ROC aesthetics' after the 228 Incident.