The other day, after I claimed that china isn't a historically expansionist or militarist country, I was told "what does the dalai lama have to say about that?". Holy shit people are dumb. Like, ask the pope what he thinks about the genocide in Palestine instead, genius.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The idea of China invading the country at the request of the Tibetan Communist Party, crushing the Lamas, freeing the slaves, and iirc they had to do it twice because the Lamas tried to start shit again, would never penetrate, would it?

I remember a Chinese person slapping down some of this bullshit saying that 98% of Tibetans speak Tibetan and asking the American how many native americans spoke an indigenous language.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and asking the American how many native americans spoke an indigenous language

And this is why libs invented 'that's just whataboutism'

[–] WHATABOUTISM_DETECTOR@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

There's also just the fact that Tibet diplomatically rejoined with China right after the end of the Civil War and only decided to split a decade later, after much work had been done to improve conditions for the serfs and this lead to an outraged aristocratic class trying to breakaway to maintain power. It's very roughly like calling the US expansionist for invading the Confederacy.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A question for them would be "what does the Dalai Lama have to say about Nepal having peasant slaves into the 20th century and why do all the Bhuddist Temples have to be gilded in gold?"

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn’t Nepal governed by a communist party? Why would they allow that?

Sorry I know basically nothing about Nepal I am a little baby.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

The Maoist uprising only occurred within the last 20 years, starting around 1996 and the monarchy was abolished in 2006. There were a lot of concessions made for this to happen and restrictions put on the most militant Maoists to re-integrate them into society and work with them through political processes instead of further violence. They've been ruled by a Democratic coalition government for a while that includes a few different communist groups. But they aren't a wholly socialist country and there's still elements of monarchism and things like that.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

As other posters have said yeah the communist uprising and now coalition state have outlawed slavery and sought restitution from the Monastery system for it, outlawed the monarchy, and additionally the quality of life significantly went up especially child and maternal health. Also don't feel bad about asking questions leftists love answering questions