• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      If China actually cared about the people. Rather than forcing the monastery closed and them to abandon their religion/culture. They would simply offer to relocate them away from the monastery if they feared for their children.

      Without children and followers to harness. The religion would die on its own. Even as the general culture would endure. China explicitly does not want that. China specifically is trying to oppress and eradicate cultural differences.

      People are 100% Justified to call China out on this. And in doing so are not defending all of tibet’s actions. Two things can be wrong at the same time. All sides can be wrong at the same time. This is one of those cases. There is no defense of China or Tibet here. China is not doing this out of some goodness of their heart or humanitarian need. Simply their own selfish goals.

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        14 hours ago

        So you are saying that instead of closing the monastery, they should relocate the towns!
        Are you aware how much people are against being relocated?
        Also that’s like punishing the victim instead of the villain.

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          6 hours ago

          Not at all. The fact of the matter is many of the people in that region and culture View things differently than you and I do. If they gave people the option to relocate and escape the reach of this monastery. You honestly wouldn’t see many people take it. Which is more or less the point. All this may sound horrific to you and i. As does tribal body mutilation etc. But to those tribes and cultures it is part of their culture.

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        1 day ago

        Which I don’t give a shit about, I’m just so fucking tired of people screaming about protecting harmful religious practices.

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          1 day ago

          Sorry that you’re inconvenienced by people making too much noise as small impotent men deploy the powers bestowed upon them by corporate technologies to destroy their entire way of life.