Volconvo Debate Forums - View Single Post - Tibet is, was, and will always be part of China?

InTheFlesh? · Apr 10, 2008, 08:02 pm

No one on this thread has suggested the Tibetan people were cuddly bunnies at the uprising, this is not what the debate was about.

The point is that the human rights abuses, and oppression of a people shouldn't be allowed, regardless of whether or not 200, 300 1000yrs ago people from your country or mine were doing the same.

Even so, as has been said, the movement to Free Tibet has been around since the Cultural Revolution in 1951 with non violence at its heart. The desire to free Tibet did not start in March with this 'rebellion'. But with the Olympics coming up and it having been such a long time, I can imagine the non-violence will go down the pan.

Again I am slightly perturbed by the casual acceptance of military violence and oppression of liberty as moral. Why are human rights abuses trivialised with quotation marks, as if they are some fanciful liberal concept that must be paid lip service to?

Grampa, I know it was a long time ago, but yeah I agree with you, often the greatest cause of violence in our history has not been the gun or sword but the pen and map.

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InTheFlesh? Comfortably Dumb Location: England Posts: 57	No one on this thread has suggested the Tibetan people were cuddly bunnies at the uprising, this is not what the debate was about. The point is that the human rights abuses, and oppression of a people shouldn't be allowed, regardless of whether or not 200, 300 1000yrs ago people from your country or mine were doing the same. Even so, as has been said, the movement to Free Tibet has been around since the Cultural Revolution in 1951 with non violence at its heart. The desire to free Tibet did not start in March with this 'rebellion'. But with the Olympics coming up and it having been such a long time, I can imagine the non-violence will go down the pan. Again I am slightly perturbed by the casual acceptance of military violence and oppression of liberty as moral. Why are human rights abuses trivialised with quotation marks, as if they are some fanciful liberal concept that must be paid lip service to? Grampa, I know it was a long time ago, but yeah I agree with you, often the greatest cause of violence in our history has not been the gun or sword but the pen and map. "When the going gets weird, the weird go pro"