Over the years China have built many hospitals, schools, colleges, universities, roads, and a railway to carry fresh vegetables, fruits to Lhasa at a bargain price. The Dalai Lama created more troubles for the people in Tibet by making their life miserable & unbearable. Tibetans used to die at a very young age due to drinking very high fat content yak (Tibetan cattle) milk. It was the Han who brought them daily supplies of tea to deal with high fat in their diet.

In this case, the link’s not even logical, with the supposed karmic retribution falling on a completely different party (or more accurately, 60,000 parties, half of which are Tibetan) to the supposed offender. Let’s take the Irwin analogy a little further. If Greer had said Steve brought his death on himself because he slapped his daughter for breaking her mother’s vase, do you think Aussies would have liked that?

Your ridiculous refusal to admit that Stone’s comment is revolting makes it obvious that it’s you that is trying to make some sort of political hay. Never let logic stand in the way of some China-bashing, hey.

It’s easy to get disassociated and forget that there’s real lives at stake when you’re constantly bombarded with tragic news footage. Oddly enough the larger the statistic (60,000) the more often this seems to happen, like with Holocaust or Nanjing deniers. Of course, it’s also true that the Tibetan monks are much more cuddly and lovable than the Chinese government and its tendency to ride rough over environmental matters and student activists. Not such much a racist thing as an Anti-Sino thing IMO.

cheers, Variably

cheers, Overgrow
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Last of all, my government is not the China government. I AM A SINGAPOREAN. Go find out where Singapore is first before you make you bark again.

Hey, I’m not the one who took offense at her remarks. When she criticizes the human rights record of the PRC and you take offense . . . well, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Not even the PRC has come unglued like this blog.

Who in the context of ‘people’ here does she refers to??? Chinese people? Chinese government?

It doesn’t include you, unless of course you are personally oppressing Tibetans, or supporting the government’s oppression of them.

If either of those applies, then you’re making Stone sound saner all the time. So tread more carefully.

Stone came out in favor of aid in that same interview — there was no gap of time. If you listen to the thing, what she said was that the Tibetans asked her to help before the interview, and she had already supplied her star quote to them. So at the time of the interview, she was already on record calling for aid.

And though she didn’t need to, she apologized.

Now, can y’all be big enough to accept the apology, or will you continue to try to make political hay off the suffering of others?

“Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like that. And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.

And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: Is that karma, when you are not nice that bad things happen to you? And then I got a letter, from the Tibetan Foundation that they want to go and be helpful. And that made me cry. And they ask me if I would write a quote about that and I said,”I would.”And it was a big lesson to me, that some times you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who are not nice to you. And that’s a big lesson for me…”