I love this shit. As evidence of Chinese human rights abuses
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Some teenagers were arrested and jailed for a month for spraypainting pro-Dalai Lama messages on a police station. Grafiti in NYC is a class A misdemeanor; You can get a year in jail or three years on probation
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Some cops shot a nun. This is bad but the fact that they call out one specific instance, when compared to America, seems farcical.
They also quote Nazis and American missionaries on the conditions under Communist rule. Are those really the most reliable sources you can get, guys?
I don’t know much of anything about the history of Tibet or the Communist rule over ethnic Tibetan regions, but articles like this are so full of questionable sources with obvious conflicts of interest that it makes me sad laugh.
Pretty interesting :parenti: article about this: https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/04/21/friendly-feudalism-the-tibet-myth/
Tashì-Tsering, a monk, reports that it was common for peasant children to be sexually mistreated in the monasteries
Why does it always come down to the same thing with the ruling class. :sadness-abysmal:
is there a religion that doesn’t abuse children? maybe TST? I figure the pastafarians attracted enough libertarians that they’re not clean, but by that standard “satanists” includes levay and those guys were into ayn rand.
not many people will read until the end and find the part where Parenti advocates to oppose the Chinese occupation of Tibet and have their brains broken
He doesn’t oppose Chinese rule of Tibet so much as he offers a sane criticism of China, the way he wrote a sane criticism of the USSR in Blackshirts and Reds.
To welcome the end of the old feudal theocracy in Tibet is not to applaud everything about Chinese rule in that country. This point is seldom understood by today’s Shangri-La believers in the West. The converse is also true: To denounce the Chinese occupation does not mean we have to romanticize the former feudal régime
I would consider this an opposition and not “critical support” or something like that, likewise in black shirts and reds
