Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)
by indigo945 on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:06AM
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The thing with feudal Tibet was that the monks didn't actually interfere with the average Tibetan's life too much. Unlike authoritarian China, dissenters in Tibet were by and large tolerated. For example, the newspaper Tibet Mirror was widely circulated in Tibet before the Chinese invasion, particularly among the ruling clerical strata, despite propagating Christian ideas and calling for political reform. That stopped very quickly after 1950.
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Another thing largely tolerated in pre-Chinese Tibet was slavery. Which also stopped very quickly after 1950.
There are priorities. Chinese broke something of a lesser priority (free press), while providing something of a much higher priority (abolition of slavery).
Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)
by aspenmayer on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:49AM
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It’s funny that in America we got those values inverted - freedom of the press first, and equality for other races and cultures much later. Both China and America are still dealing with their legacies of human rights violations, which continue in both countries today.