• Netdisk [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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.

            • Phantom [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              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.

              • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                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:

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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                3 years ago

                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

        • Phantom [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          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?