If the February 28th Incident hadn't ever occurred, or if the KMT hadn't kept Taiwanese out of the top levels of government in the early years after coming to Taiwan, it's possible that Lee Teng-hui would never have talked about it at all.
如果沒有發生二二八，或是光復初期在參政權上不曾刻意箝制台籍人士，或許也不會有類似的說法。