its a trigger issue for me because its such a white persons cause de jour. Like you didn't hear dick about tibet until this year when suddenly we need to FREE IT NOW BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DYING! what? people are dying in darfur. People are dying HERE in the united states.
The short story is: Tibet was an oppressive theocracy (ruled only by the priest class who owned like 90% of the country which was worked by a serf class that lived in abject poverty) until the 50s when the Chinese took over. The Chinese are dealing with their scaling issues and just don't give a fuck, they are brutally repressive to anyone who speaks out. But because the Buddhists are so "nice" and "peace-loving" (harm none apparently doesn't care over to exploiting an entire countries worth of people who live without basic sanitation or nutrition so you can eat off golden plates) we need to DO SOMETHING NOW, etc etc. These people never say ANYTHING about the rest of the Chinese, only Tibet. Nevermind any countries where real starvation and poverty is going on (see: Africa, South America, parts of the former Russian Bloc) Free Tibet looks so nice on a bumper sticker.
I know I was watching that fool from Marin on the bridge with his expensive ass climbing shoes, that your average Marin'ite. Yuppy self righteous and all over the "cause of the day", do you think those fools will open their wallets and donate to the shelters or anything else. Hell no.
We have starving people here in OUR country, and homelessness and oppression by the rich. Not to mention, HEALTHCARE!
dude marin has a HUGE homeless population that goes unchecked because they don't appear as typical homeless. My mother in law worked for years in non-profits up there that helped homeless mothers and children. It's terrible.
But God knows the way to get people to support your cause is to massively ruin their day.
Try getting people interested in the homeless and the "motel people" in Orange County. That's a real hoot. Every "Christian Charity" sending money to Sudan and we have folks dying of malnutrition five blocks from Disneyland. PTUI.
The short story is: Tibet was an oppressive theocracy (ruled only by the priest class who owned like 90% of the country which was worked by a serf class that lived in abject poverty) until the 50s when the Chinese took over. The Chinese are dealing with their scaling issues and just don't give a fuck, they are brutally repressive to anyone who speaks out. But because the Buddhists are so "nice" and "peace-loving" (harm none apparently doesn't care over to exploiting an entire countries worth of people who live without basic sanitation or nutrition so you can eat off golden plates) we need to DO SOMETHING NOW, etc etc. These people never say ANYTHING about the rest of the Chinese, only Tibet. Nevermind any countries where real starvation and poverty is going on (see: Africa, South America, parts of the former Russian Bloc) Free Tibet looks so nice on a bumper sticker.
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I know I was watching that fool from Marin on the bridge with his expensive ass climbing shoes, that your average Marin'ite. Yuppy self righteous and all over the "cause of the day", do you think those fools will open their wallets and donate to the shelters or anything else. Hell no.
We have starving people here in OUR country, and homelessness and oppression by the rich. Not to mention, HEALTHCARE!
ugh..
Maybe these fools will end up sharkbait..
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But God knows the way to get people to support your cause is to massively ruin their day.
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