Nearly a million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools on the Tibetan plateau. Chinese authorities subject these children to a highly politicized curriculum designed to strip them of their mother tongue, sever their ties to their religion and culture, and methodically replace their Tibetan identity with a Chinese one. Children as young as four have been separated from their parents and enrolled in boarding kindergartens under a recruitment strategy based largely on coercion.

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    7 months ago

    you’re trying to turn this on Canada for no reason. This is about China, not North America

    It’s a common CCP tactic to always talk about other peoples history rather then own up to their own terrible history

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      7 months ago

      This isn’t whatboutism. Canada is not currently running residential schools and China is. That makes China much worse on this topic.

      But I also think this is a perfectly apt time to bring up the comparison. These residential schools sound exactly like the British colonial residential school system, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if China was copying that. What makes Canada great is precisely that we can talk about these dark times in our history, and admit that they were shitty. Do you think Chinese Internet users are able to do that?

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        7 months ago

        It’s not “whataboutism”, it’s called “deflection” and it’s something you’re trying to do right now. China is a terrible country. There’s no discussion to be had here