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Why I should support Taiwan and Tibet? (lemmygrad.ml)

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u/ButtigiegMineralMap - originally from r/GenZhou
I’m learning a lot about Marxism recently and this Donetsk and Luhansk situation has made me think more about Seperatists. I’m not pro-taiwan, not pro-HK, not pro-tibet, I’m mostly pro-China, but I don’t have a good understanding of the area and there’s sooo much history in the region. Basically TL;DR, why should I primarily be against these Separatists if I would be pro-Donetsk,Luhansk, thanks. Btw I’ll make it clear I’m not for taiwan or tibet as the title might suggest, that may look confusing

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

u/shanyangren - originally from r/GenZhou
How?

Having roads, railways, electricity, hospitals built? Their language and culture preserved as opposed to dominated and commodified like in other Asian countries? With 95% of children in Tibet learning Tibetan as a language in school?

How, exactly, is Tibet being oppressed?

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u/shanyangren - originally from r/GenZhou

Infrastructure has nothing to do with being oppressed

Yes, it does. Infrastructure (or the lack thereof) is used to control people. If you do not have roads, hospitals, electricity, railways, it's impossible to be free.

Is culture just language?

No, I used language as an example. People in Tibet are completely free to practice whatever religion they want, eat whatever food they want, dress however they want, sing whatever songs and read whatever books they want (fun fact: the PRC banned the exact same amount of books as the USA since 1949).

They went so far to kidnap the Panchen Lama

Not an example of systemic oppression. One bad thing is not an analysis of the rights that normal people enjoy.

Tibet is consistently rated as one of the most oppressed regions on Earth

By who? The CIA?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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u/Tashathar - originally from r/GenZhou
Your vacant mind is revealed in that first line. Keeping the infrastructure of a region up-to-date is the best way to allow it to develop, and its inverse, letting it rot away to keep the region underdeveloped is one of the simplest and most frequent tools of oppression.

The rest I'm not touching, you're clearly infatuated with the brutal slavers and theocrats of a bygone era.