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China is slowly erasing Tibet's name (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5651275

Original link: https://www.newsweek.com/china-changing-tibet-english-name-1843391

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 48 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Guess I must be the Tiananmen Guy, because I seem to bring all the Tankies to the yard.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

Bringing up Tiananmen when there are documented instances (with actual evidence) of people getting run over by Israeli tanks and bulldozers in Gaza right now. Backed by the US government. With the US President actively spreading FUD about the scale and extent of atrocities. Nice.

Xizang is literally the phonetic transliteration for the region of the TAR. You're basically saying that we should keep the name Western colonialists gave a territory because Western brains would get hurt if the name changed.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 36 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I love how you Tankies just assume everyone but you is pro-US or something.

Yeah, absolutely; the Chinese government is evil just like Israel and the US's governments. Glad we agree that they're all imperialist genociders! Good talk!

[–] LicenseToChill@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago

For these people it's the most grievous offense to criticize china and russia, and if you're not constantly cheering for total annihilation of the West, you're an ontologically evil libshit and deserve to be gulag'd

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