Party Vibe

too right yanks cant take higher moral ground, UK neither. is why thye arent boycotting olympic games ceremony. Tibet could become new Israel.. a new epicentre of world conflict

alltho it’s more bad shit happening (protesters getting battered ect.) that has made tibbet become “major” news again .. but i am glad it is in the spot light again as it could of so easly of got swept under the caprpet after the last protests

your avarage tibet fella lived like shit when the monks where in charge , lower than the lower while the old llama is living it up in his mountain palace, this way everyone will be equal(er)

seroiusly tho i watched some documentary and they still have a pretty meager excistance even with china in charge.

and this is just false advertising.:wink:

i heard somethin about the olympic flame lightin bein disrupted

major respect if they manage it

When the monks were in power Tibet was a feudal state where Tibetans were largely slaves. The current Chinese government might not be great, but its a million times better than Tibetan theocratic feudalism. The United States has for geopolitical reasons elevated the Dali Lama as if he’s some kind of Tibetan version of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, but don’t accept it on an emotional impulse without researching it from broader sources (remember, people liek Gandhi or Nelson Mandela were *hated* and demonized in the Western bourgeois press and governments before they were successful).

Michael Parenti has a really brilliant article on the myth of “friendly feudalism” in Tibet:

[URL=”http://www.%3Cb%3Emichaelparenti%3C/b%3E”%5Dwww.michaelparent.org/tibet.html[/URL]

and theres a youtube thing if you’re lazy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWGGjpJJCKE

Read it before you make up your minds on it and follow the ‘free tibet’ crowd.

Criticizing China is an easy political target for people who want to feel like they’re politically progressive but don’t want to be so controversial as to focus on their own governments; and China is a lazy target because criticizing it isn’t controversial as the right-wing and governments in the West (or at least the US and UK) love to go after it. Wanting to boycott the Chinese Olympics because they aren’t letting a bunch of Tibetan exiles come back and rule Tibet as an American proxy state is a bit like wanting to boycott the London Olympics over not letting Sinn Fein govern the north of Ireland or hypothetically boycotting Olympics in America over its treatment of the native Americans or err, occupying Iraq for five years. Which is not to say that those things wouldn’t potentially be legitimate (the Olympics are stupid anyways) but its a double standard to focus on China when the West is both as bad or worse (i mean, how can the British or American governments have any moral authority over Tibet given what they’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan).