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I don't know much about it. I know that during the Chinese cultural revolution the tibetan culture was pretty much fucking obliterated but I don't know much beyond that. I recently saw an article talking about modern China's treatment of tibet and could identify a lot of very misleading language that treated seemingly normal things as dystopian as usual but I'd really like to know this history here as well as what is actually happening in tibet right now. Can anyone point me towards resources that may have information on this?

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[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/index.htm

Here is an account by the first western journalist to visit Tibet after the serfs rose up against the ruling priest class. It's a good place to start educating yourself.

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago
[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Came here to recommend Anna Louise strong. Great and depressing read

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The "Tibetan culture" that China destroyed mostly consisted of monks mutilating peasants

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's Friendly Feudalism by Parenti. Read it a while ago and it seemed like a pretty good introduction to the whole topic. Reasonably short too

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excuse me? Penn and Teller?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, yeah they're not great and it totally digs at china and communism.

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Damn, I had some hope

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I remember when it was a huge trend among American libs to vocally support the Free Tibet movement under the assumption that they were saving helpless pacifists from the warmongering CCP. Turns out it was actually a feudal slave state that was being liberated by China.