A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

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    Tibet doesn’t want modern infrastructure like the Chinese have built? They don’t want a modern education or modern jobs? They want to be ruled by monasteries headed by the Dalai Lama, a theocracy led by a man in the Epstein files? You must be pretty racist against Tibetans to believe that.

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      They don’t want to be Chinese or China. The rest is irrelevant and quiet frankly insulting.

      Europeans said the same about indigenous Americans. I guess you support that too?

      It’s the same thing China is doing to Uyghur Muslims.

      It’s called genocide

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        They don’t want to be Chinese or China

        Again: did you ask Tibetans? Assert your source

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            “Colonizer ass question” is when you want to know the opinion of the locals instead of falling for US propaganda, sure buddy

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                Oh my fucking god HAHAHAHAH I just realized you’re talking about Taiwan. You can’t even tell the name of the fucking country and you believe you know better than anyone HAHAHAHHAHAHA

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                    Then why are you saying it’s its own country? Tibet Autonomous Region is literally a subdivision of China, there are essentially no countries denying this?

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                    Total votes in the last elections to the Tibetan Government in Exile: 60k. Surely those represent the plurality of the MILLIONS of Tibetans in Tibet huh?

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                    Also, from Wikipedia:

                    The Central Tibetan Authority is not recognised as a sovereign government by any country

                    You are literally making shit up brother

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        there is no genocide there, unjust prosecution of certain ethnicities? on smaller level yes. Genocide? not even close.

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          Genocide is the death of a culture. If China has it their way there would be no Tibet.

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        Even more insulting is comparing real genocide with having children take Mandarin classes.

        Show me videos of the Chinese treating the Tibetans the way Israelis treat Palestinians. Show me Chinese soldiers shooting missiles at Tibetan schools, hospitals, and places of worship. Show me the Chinese military killing Tibetans by the thousands and bragging about it.

        Why hasn’t the international criminal court put out an arrest warrant if an actual genocide is taking place? Cry me a river, you propagandistic liar!

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          Suck my nut it’s genocide and I don’t care how much you say it isn’t.

          We aren’t arguing an opinion. It’s a fact.

          “Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group”

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              Imagine being this stupid. What a stupid thing to say. How stupid.

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                  You’re someone who literally doesn’t know what lingua franca is.

                  This is what you little cucks cry about all the time America has done to indigenous folk. But when China does it, it’s a lingua franca.

                  Fucking idiot

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                    Reducing the reservations and residential schools to speaking English is minimising the genocide commited against Native Americans: might I suggest that you’re projecting when you throw around phrases like “doesn’t know” and “fucking idiot”?