Would you say the same about the south, if after the civil war, 40 acres and a mule happened and the former slave owners proceeded to flee to a hostile country and cry about the plight of their people?
I don’t know how to tell you this so I’ll just rip the bandaid off: the same amendment that outlawed slavery in the US opened up a pathway for legal slavery if the enslaved person was convicted of a crime. This led to uneven enforcement of the laws targeting black people to fill the prisons with cheap labor. Additional laws were passed denying those convicted of felonies that right to vote which helped keep black people from alleviating their bondage at the ballot box. And that’s all setting aside that most newly freed people spent generations living in absolute poverty as sharecroppers and any black communities that actually managed to do well for themselves were targeted by whites like in the Tulsa race massacre or simply had their communities bulldozed during the construction of the interstates in the 50s and 60s. Did black people trade one master for another? The Black Panthers might agree.
Back to the analogy, both former slaves and former slave owners from Tibet cry about their plight but the plight former slaves cry about is the conquest and domination of their country by China and the use of the education system and large scale settlement of Han Chinese to destroy Tibetan language and culture while making them second class citizens in the land of their ancestors. I’ll oppose that like I oppose all Imperialism.
Regarding the south post-reconstruction, there’s a reason I specified 40 acres and a mule, if the land and political representation had been handed to the former slaves instead of what actually happened.
destroy Tibetan language
Schools literally teach in the Tibetan language.
second class citizens
How? What rights do Tibetens lack?
plight former slaves cry about
A Tibeten talking to the west over their plight is no different than a Palestinian talking to Israelis about the plight of LBGT+ in Palestine or a cuban gusano talking to America about the horrors of free healthcare; literally the only use is to justify hostile action that harms the people they pretend to support.
We’re suggesting they traded one master for another.
Would you say the same about the south, if after the civil war, 40 acres and a mule happened and the former slave owners proceeded to flee to a hostile country and cry about the plight of their people?
I don’t know how to tell you this so I’ll just rip the bandaid off: the same amendment that outlawed slavery in the US opened up a pathway for legal slavery if the enslaved person was convicted of a crime. This led to uneven enforcement of the laws targeting black people to fill the prisons with cheap labor. Additional laws were passed denying those convicted of felonies that right to vote which helped keep black people from alleviating their bondage at the ballot box. And that’s all setting aside that most newly freed people spent generations living in absolute poverty as sharecroppers and any black communities that actually managed to do well for themselves were targeted by whites like in the Tulsa race massacre or simply had their communities bulldozed during the construction of the interstates in the 50s and 60s. Did black people trade one master for another? The Black Panthers might agree.
Back to the analogy, both former slaves and former slave owners from Tibet cry about their plight but the plight former slaves cry about is the conquest and domination of their country by China and the use of the education system and large scale settlement of Han Chinese to destroy Tibetan language and culture while making them second class citizens in the land of their ancestors. I’ll oppose that like I oppose all Imperialism.
Regarding the south post-reconstruction, there’s a reason I specified 40 acres and a mule, if the land and political representation had been handed to the former slaves instead of what actually happened.
Schools literally teach in the Tibetan language.
How? What rights do Tibetens lack?
A Tibeten talking to the west over their plight is no different than a Palestinian talking to Israelis about the plight of LBGT+ in Palestine or a cuban gusano talking to America about the horrors of free healthcare; literally the only use is to justify hostile action that harms the people they pretend to support.