more and more news of prostesters at the olympics..
when are people going to see that china doesn't respond to open confrontation? espeically from a whole bunch of no-name forigeners who remain in the comfort of thier foriegn countries.
Every altercation that happens leading up do and during the olympics puts tibetans in tibet in more and more danger, and in the path of generations of additonal suffering and oppression. tibet will pay dearly for engendering embarassment and disrepect long after the bulk of protesters caught up in olympic frenzy have forgotten thier current cause.
Athletes, where this moment should be among the crowning acheivements in thier career, will have thier day stolen from them by short sighted activists. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
get the facts straight, adopt some cultural comptency and deal with china on chinese terms. We're playing with the lives of an entire nation right now, and the lives of thier children, and thier childrens' children. If this truly to be a watershed moment for tibet, then let's get it right. we need to give china the space to back off of tibet, in a way that allows china to save face. This is a country where a viable solution to poor leadership is to wait for the current ruler to get old and die, and it's the same place that will execute a government official on a whim if they have to make an example of some one. confrontation is a signal for extreme behavior, and if the PRC sees confrontation as extreme, they will respond in kind. not at us, but at tibet. what we're doing is breaking tibet down at a time when we should be pouring all this amazing awareness, support, and energy into building it up and acting like tibet is its own nation, with its own people, worthy of respect and autonomy.
right now, based on my sense of what is going on in ths US, I feel like Tibet is not being given that respect, and i feel that Tibet is being treated as a plaything in the face of growing anti-chinese sentiment. china has done plenty to deserve a fair portion of consternation, but it seems to me like a lot of the pro-tibet supporters look more like anti-chinese protesters. We have such pre-occupation with racism in this country, i think tibet's struggle was just too good an opportunity to crystalize the conflation of steretypical stingy, distrustful chinese buisnessmen, a healthy dose of xenophobia, and genuine human rights violations occuring in china as a ring around an open and upfront discussion, in our own country, about our feelings on china's development and debut as a major player in the global economy.
Every altercation that happens leading up do and during the olympics puts tibetans in tibet in more and more danger, and in the path of generations of additonal suffering and oppression. tibet will pay dearly for engendering embarassment and disrepect long after the bulk of protesters caught up in olympic frenzy have forgotten thier current cause.
Athletes, where this moment should be among the crowning acheivements in thier career, will have thier day stolen from them by short sighted activists. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
get the facts straight, adopt some cultural comptency and deal with china on chinese terms. We're playing with the lives of an entire nation right now, and the lives of thier children, and thier childrens' children. If this truly to be a watershed moment for tibet, then let's get it right. we need to give china the space to back off of tibet, in a way that allows china to save face. This is a country where a viable solution to poor leadership is to wait for the current ruler to get old and die, and it's the same place that will execute a government official on a whim if they have to make an example of some one. confrontation is a signal for extreme behavior, and if the PRC sees confrontation as extreme, they will respond in kind. not at us, but at tibet. what we're doing is breaking tibet down at a time when we should be pouring all this amazing awareness, support, and energy into building it up and acting like tibet is its own nation, with its own people, worthy of respect and autonomy.
right now, based on my sense of what is going on in ths US, I feel like Tibet is not being given that respect, and i feel that Tibet is being treated as a plaything in the face of growing anti-chinese sentiment. china has done plenty to deserve a fair portion of consternation, but it seems to me like a lot of the pro-tibet supporters look more like anti-chinese protesters. We have such pre-occupation with racism in this country, i think tibet's struggle was just too good an opportunity to crystalize the conflation of steretypical stingy, distrustful chinese buisnessmen, a healthy dose of xenophobia, and genuine human rights violations occuring in china as a ring around an open and upfront discussion, in our own country, about our feelings on china's development and debut as a major player in the global economy.