Just a reminder that Tibet was a literal fascist theocracy, the kind that exists in rural America. The Red Army put an end to that. Oh, how the lamas screamed when they taught their women how to read, and that they have rights, and that they can't be married against their will. They're still angry about it today.
What didn't you like about the page? I found it really informative; it gives quotes from Chinese, British, Tibetan sides. Like I didn't know that "China makes no claim to sovereign rights over Tibet as a result of its military subjugation and occupation of Tibet following the country's invasion in 1949-1950"; I'd thought they thought of Mao as communizing the country.
They stayed neutral during WWII then the Dalai Lama became bffs with this guy.
:sus-torment: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj0gOfnnb_wAhVOh-AKHT3_AvsQFjAIegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1vcbIVvSbsLpvVSQX_4s3d
:bean-think::thinkin-lenin::cap-think::bean-think:
I liked the part where they casually gloss over the history of the slave system instituted by the Tibetan monk-king theocracy, or the alarming radicalization perpetrated against Tibetan expats to turn them into zealous terrorists against their home country.
Try harder, slave apologist
The 13th Dalai Lama had freed most of the slaves before the Maoist invasion, from what I've read. If you have contrary sources I'd be interested.
It seems 100% certain that any vestiges of slavery would be reformed away by now without annexation. Do you support annexing other countries with slavery like Mauritania?
If only there was some kind of positive example of a country that had invaded a secessionist province that was slaveholding.
What am I wrecking? I don't know what the second thing you said is.
The people of Tibet had far less freedom before the PRC liberated them than the people of any nation the US invaded in the past 70 years.
The reason Tibet’s unique culture isn’t remembered for its abhorrent land lordship and slavery is that China ended these before white people cared
I mean now it's governed and run by the children of Tibetan serfs instead of feudal slaveowners, so seems much better than before Mao
Why is Tibet a country when other civil war warlord states were not? Their Qing era governance was overthrown as well. Why no calls to liberate? And why did the Western view support Tibet as part of China under nationalist party claims? They did not recognize a country then.
other civil war warlord states were not
Wait what? Which ones? What "civil war"?
Do you not know any of Chinese history? How can you think you can speak on this topic if you are not aware of the basic Chinese history of the 20th century?
After the death of Yuan Shikai, the country became divided into many nominally independent warlord state, which all had relation with each other and were not considered countries. They fought and the nationalist government win.
https://tricycle.org/magazine/hitler-and-himalayas-ss-mission-tibet-1938-39/
Hanging out with Nazis doesn't sit right with me.
I would like to have a long interaction using few words with the person who cemented shitty photoshops as a valid part of the cultural apparatus.
No, you can't in fact use gimp to incoherently splice 4 different images together and call it a "style."
Jon Stewart made it the core of American political humor.
The Tibetan workers have the power of self determination through the communist party. To that end they are liberated in a national sense
Run by This Guy
Love it, with this sad white Gen X lib wanker running a regime change position to the right of both the Dalai Lama and the CTA, who want a One Country, Two Systems approach (at least the Dalai Lama probably does, the CTAs backers are almost certainly lying.)
CTA is the government-in-exile for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Tibetan_Administration
