One can find articles and YouTube videos supporting pretty much any viewpoint these days. One thing that strikes me from the 3 or 4 of the links above that I clicked on is the contradiction underlying what seem to be the two main points of all of them:
1. Tibet has always been part of China
2. Tibet's culture and religion were bad anyway and we're better off without them
If we are to accept the outrageously sloppy claims in support of the second point, we must accept that to whatever extent Tibet was "always part of China", it had its own distinct culture within whatever wider geo-political entity, be it a dynasty or regime, was in ultimate power. So what I'm reading from all this propoganda is something along the lines of "Yes we are eradicating this culture but it's ok because it's a bad culture - look, the Dalai Lama once shook hands with someone who was subsequently accused of sex slavery". Frankly, that doesn't wash. Invading a country (or "land" or "place") and systematically murdering its people is wrong - and trying to justify it by claiming you are "liberating" its people from something worse... well, that's pretty much the oldest trick in the book and we've all heard it used many times in many different contexts for ultimately the same manipulative purposes.
One can find articles and
One can find articles and YouTube videos supporting pretty much any viewpoint these days. One thing that strikes me from the 3 or 4 of the links above that I clicked on is the contradiction underlying what seem to be the two main points of all of them:
1. Tibet has always been part of China
2. Tibet's culture and religion were bad anyway and we're better off without them
If we are to accept the outrageously sloppy claims in support of the second point, we must accept that to whatever extent Tibet was "always part of China", it had its own distinct culture within whatever wider geo-political entity, be it a dynasty or regime, was in ultimate power. So what I'm reading from all this propoganda is something along the lines of "Yes we are eradicating this culture but it's ok because it's a bad culture - look, the Dalai Lama once shook hands with someone who was subsequently accused of sex slavery". Frankly, that doesn't wash. Invading a country (or "land" or "place") and systematically murdering its people is wrong - and trying to justify it by claiming you are "liberating" its people from something worse... well, that's pretty much the oldest trick in the book and we've all heard it used many times in many different contexts for ultimately the same manipulative purposes.