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Originally posted by goosdawg
Um...Tibet's gots teh oil and gas:
Originally posted by TheComte
Why boycott the Olympics over it?
Originally posted by Witness2008
reply to post by IchiNiSan
China does not have an arm of justice..the chinese government and all the private industry goons are nothing but oppressors. exploiting their own population, killing the chinese envirnment along with the natural beauty of tibet, and then the genocide that is occurring as we speak in Tibet. If you had the ability to see the truth from your computer I would provide all the reports, but alas you can not.
You have very limited access to news so I consider your opinion on the matter to be severely crippled.
Originally posted by IchiNiSan
the term 'genocide' is used way too loosely and is unjustified! you know what a real genocide is? You should ask someone about Rwanda!
Again, so called 'limited access' is again something you claim
Originally posted by biggie smalls
Originally posted by TheComte
Why boycott the Olympics over it?
Boycotting the Olympics will send a strong message to the Chinese. Will it work? I don't know.
Hundreds of Tibetans who rioted in the streets of Lhasa, attacking Han Chinese with knives and rocks and burning shops and homes, must surrender to the Chinese military by midnight tonight (4pm today) or face severe punishment.
Originally posted by GoldenGalaxy
reply to post by morgul
Another error you made was-Tibetans were not named by English
speaking people-according to a Tibetan friend of mine (a scholar
who studied in London Universities)-it was a name given to tribes
in this area by the Turks-a long, long, time ago in a country far,
far away.
Not everything on the planet was named by English-speaking people.
That's beyond eurocentric. Even a lot in America wasn't named by
English-speaking people. Massachusetts was named by the Wamponaug
Indians of the Cape Cod area. The list is endless in this regard.
It's not what you don't know that's ignorant, it's what you think
you know but don't have a clue about.
Originally posted by Witness2008
reply to post by TheComte
Maybe the athletes can decide that for themselves. If you are paying attention to the conversation and the links provided you would see that talk of boycotting the olympics is not just limited to this thread.
And I disagree with your prediction of it being to late to boycott chinese products. I think this is the perfect time to start.