- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.
A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.
Honestly, France has been doing this for 2 centuries now. Is it bad because China is doing it?
Yes, to both.
It ain’t hard.
Two things can both be bad.
And you know what else is bad? Low-effort whataboutery.
I’ve never seen an article about France on this matter. Is it more important if it’s in China ? That is the link you refuse to see I guess.
Tibet was it’s own country until China communists conquered it in 1951.
Weird how nobody ever talks about that…
in the 50s France was dumping it’s colonies.
So its OK then that France did that? You can’t excuse one instance of imperialism and complain about another. All Imperialism is bad, regardless of who is doing it to whom.
I’m not excusing anything. I’m just looking at targeted blame. China is the most terrible country for everything it does. Just don’t look anywhere else, especially not the allies of the west.
Oh make no mistake , France is still enforcing Neocolonialism in its “former” colonies. Its just that I see to many people (eee lemmy.ml) handwaive Chinas awful actions away because bad stuff happened before, and that logic only ever leads to things never getting better.
What I see is anti-China propaganda where everything bad is denounced when China does it but ignored when it’s the west and their allies.
I see many more post about “China evil” than I see about Saoudi Arabia or Israël.
In fact, the “China evil” propaganda is very often a form of whataboutism to avoid the same or worst problems in the west. In French there is a say that goes like “it’s easier to see the straw in the eye of you neighbour than to see the beam in your own eye.”