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Sure today, same could be said about the Native Americans. Doesn’t mean they didn’t expirence an active and ongoing genocide until recently. Doesn’t suddenly make those past actions didn’t happen.

You wouldn’t paint the conqistadors as saviors, but they ended a slave empire that practiced human sacrifice. Doesn’t absolve them of what they did after.

If China did this for the good of Tibet they wouldn’t have been annexed. Nor would they have had all of their resources exploited. But you know what’s a little colonialism, as long as your side does it right?

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Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They didn’t “annex” Tibet because Tibet had already been a part of China for the past 200 years. That’s like calling the Civil War “colonialism” because the Union “annexed” the Confederacy.

This shit about Native Americans is pure projection. Native languages are in danger, in a way the Tibetan language is not and never has been. All you’re doing is taking something the West did and saying, “Well China must have done this too” with nothing to back it up.

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- arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Right a power drawing a line on a map claiming land and then enforcing that claim via violence totally isn’t colonialism.
  
  Do yourself a favor and don’t look into the linguistic history of what is today China. You will see an impressive number of languages that became extinct in the past 100 years. The Navajo language is doing well today too. Doesn’t change the history. It’s like you are unable to look at history you find inconvenient. I don’t defend the brutalization of indeginious populations, you do for some odd reason. Oh right you’re an imperialist authoritarian
  
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  - Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Right a power drawing a line on a map claiming land and then enforcing that claim via violence totally isn’t colonialism.
    
    That’s every state that has ever existed or could theoretically exist, lol.
    
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    arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh right the old everyone kills their neighbors defense so all genocide is a-ok.
    
    Yeah no, I hold the modern world to a higher standard than that sorry.
    
    Feels like you are finally admitting to the imperialism at least
    
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