https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3873506-why-doesnt-the-global-south-support-ukraines-anti-colonial-struggle/

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    To put the question differently, were the Tibetans partly wrong for having been invaded and annexed by China?

    100% heckin' wholesome chungus Monks owning serfs and crushing skulls as a punishment for disobedience did nothing wrong.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I want to beat this person with a cudgel while saying IT WAS A FEUDAL SLAVE THEOCRACY and if they complain say WHAT'S THE MATTER DON'T YOU LIKE TIBETAN JUSTICE BEFORE THE PRC

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Ah yes, The Tibetans. There were no divisions in that society, they all came out the womb bald and robe-clad, and they all had wholesome chi powers and spent all day meditating for sustenance. There was definitely no class conflict, no division of labor, no wretchedly poor servants in those gilded temples, no torture or prima nocta, no brutal theocratic slave society at all.

      To the liberal, any country that isn't part of the empire or one of it's designated villains isn't really real. They see these places as little Small World ride-esque performances put on for their benefit, carried out by colorful groups of scampering servile stereotypes who all have exactly one Thing. The history of a region? Those people didn't really die, didn't even really ever exist, it's just the lore of this zone. Why are you talking about some old meaningless lore, we have to fight this boss! :some-controversy:

      They will never care about the history, never truly see the people there as human, because the promise of American exceptionalism is that you don't have to. They already know all there is to know about Tibet. Tibet is when prayer flags. Tibetan is when orange robes. Enemy faction must pay for their lore crimes.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Good point, I wanted a way to say the other thing but wandered into historical innacuracy with what I figured would be a safe assumption