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Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Opinion
On Unfair boycott will tarnish Olympic spirit (3/27/08)
This article is parroting disgusting Chinese propaganda. Attacking the Dali Lama and his intentions is like attacking Mother Teresa or Gandhi. The Chinese government doesn't have Tibetan welfare in mind. Obviously. To say that Tibetans are being treated so well is an ignorant comment. One only needs to look further than a Chinese government propaganda site to see videos and pictures and articles of the atrocities being inflicted on the Tibetan people. I think boycotting the Olympics is a great start. We should have been doing more about this a long time ago.
I understand that coming from the inside, you could have been taught that what the Chinese government is doing is for the good of the Tibetan people. Much like some Americans would feel if the Olympics were here and being boycotted by certain countries for our role in Iraq. We have been fed lines to believe that we are doing what's best for them. However, all one needs to do is look beyond the obvious propaganda, and form an opinion based on facts, not Fox News.
Sara Berry
posted 4/03/08
So every claim of Chinese human rights abuses is simply made up by the "Tibetan elites" to make the world feel sorry for them and to get them asylum? No! China has a bad human rights record along with the United States. Many of the goods Americans and others buy from China are produced on the backs of slave labor in the Chinese "Laogai."
I think that in this day and age Americans should look a little harder at some of the egregious human rights abuses being perpetrated in our name in nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and the numerous sweatshops we buy our "cheap" goods from. I am not against speaking out for a free Tibet, but this should make Americans reflect on the fact that we do not hold the moral high ground in this war of words, either.
Evan Simpson
posted 4/07/08
This article is parroting disgusting Chinese propaganda. Attacking the Dali Lama and his intentions is like attacking Mother Teresa or Gandhi. The Chinese government doesn't have Tibetan welfare in mind. Obviously. To say that Tibetans are being treated so well is an ignorant comment. One only needs to look further than a Chinese government propaganda site to see videos and pictures and articles of the atrocities being inflicted on the Tibetan people. I think boycotting the Olympics is a great start. We should have been doing more about this a long time ago.
I understand that coming from the inside, you could have been taught that what the Chinese government is doing is for the good of the Tibetan people. Much like some Americans would feel if the Olympics were here and being boycotted by certain countries for our role in Iraq. We have been fed lines to believe that we are doing what's best for them. However, all one needs to do is look beyond the obvious propaganda, and form an opinion based on facts, not Fox News.
Sara Berry
posted 4/03/08
So every claim of Chinese human rights abuses is simply made up by the "Tibetan elites" to make the world feel sorry for them and to get them asylum? No! China has a bad human rights record along with the United States. Many of the goods Americans and others buy from China are produced on the backs of slave labor in the Chinese "Laogai."
I think that in this day and age Americans should look a little harder at some of the egregious human rights abuses being perpetrated in our name in nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and the numerous sweatshops we buy our "cheap" goods from. I am not against speaking out for a free Tibet, but this should make Americans reflect on the fact that we do not hold the moral high ground in this war of words, either.
Evan Simpson
posted 4/07/08
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