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[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Okay, let's use the name that the legitimate government of Tibet, the Central Tibetan Administration, endorses.

Oh look, it's "Tibet".

[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The legitimate government of Tibet... According to who? Even the British (who had just finished shipping opium to China, looting Chinese palaces, and had every reason to antagonize the Chinese) didn't recognize the independence of Tibet.

Regardless, this is the same Tibetan government that supported a caste system and ethnic discrimination, right? That Tibetan government? The same one whose leader has been called out by American media for being a pedophile?

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to who?

According to Tibetans.

Regardless, this is the same Tibetan government that...

Yawn. Nothing but whataboutism from you, huh? "Who cares if China did multiple genocides and illegal annexations and disappears people who protest the government, the Tibetan government is also bad, so China should be allowed to ethnic cleanse them!"

No government is good, but other humans being bad isn't an excuse to go and be bad as well. And let's not pretend that China gives a crap about anything except expansion of their resources and influence. You're not impressing anyone by defending a genocidal regime, it just comes off as being incapable of actually critically assessing your own side. You're no different than the MAGA crowd who think America can do no wrong.

[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same 6 million Tibetans living in Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan? Those Tibetans? The same Tibetans who are the ethnic majority in TAR and make up a significant proportion of the population of Qinghai?

Oh, you meant the Central Tibetan Administration, which nets about 100 people a year leaving China. The same one that's seeing people return to China because the economic prospects elsewhere are worse.

Edit: the TAR, which is governed by Losang Jamcan as Congress Chairman, Yan Jinhai as Government Chairman, and Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai as CPPCC Chairman... All Tibetan. The Tibetan deputies to the National People's Congress... Also Tibetan. Life expectancy increased from 36yo to 72yo. GDP/capita and disposable income/capita growing rapidly YoY. Billions of dollars in infrastructure investment, including the Lhasa HSR. Interesting strategy for a genocide, that's for sure.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

There is No War in Ba Sing Se!

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