Tibet was a feudal society before the PLA invaded, yes.
If the PLA had installed a legitimate government and left, that would be one thing. Putting Tibet under a foreign-imposed regime of settler colonialism, however, is a different question entirely.
If you’re asking if I shed tears for the old theocracy, I don’t. If you’re asking if I think that China ‘freed Tibet’, or that its occupation is in any way legitimate or anything less than horrific, or the notion that the violation of a country’s sovereignty because “The government we overthrew used to own it” is okay, you bet I’m going to be bitterly critical of the PRC.
And furthermore, considering the position stated here, absolute isolationism for the West™ (even against brutal backwards theocratic authoritarian states) while cheering on imperialism of other nations because “The Chinese Empire ruled over it so it’s their’s forever regardless of what the people there think (don’t worry, they’ll be replaced by CIVILIZED Han folk anyway)” is fucking bizarre.
Effectively, yep. I don’t think they practiced chattel slavery but they were all personal feudal subjects of the Dalai Lama. Absolute autocratic theocracy, even in exile, until like the 1960s.
Wasn’t tibet like a slave state before the PLA invaded, though?
Tibet was a feudal society before the PLA invaded, yes.
If the PLA had installed a legitimate government and left, that would be one thing. Putting Tibet under a foreign-imposed regime of settler colonialism, however, is a different question entirely.
If you’re asking if I shed tears for the old theocracy, I don’t. If you’re asking if I think that China ‘freed Tibet’, or that its occupation is in any way legitimate or anything less than horrific, or the notion that the violation of a country’s sovereignty because “The government we overthrew used to own it” is okay, you bet I’m going to be bitterly critical of the PRC.
And furthermore, considering the position stated here, absolute isolationism for the West™ (even against brutal backwards theocratic authoritarian states) while cheering on imperialism of other nations because “The Chinese Empire ruled over it so it’s their’s forever regardless of what the people there think (don’t worry, they’ll be replaced by CIVILIZED Han folk anyway)” is fucking bizarre.
Interesting
Effectively, yep. I don’t think they practiced chattel slavery but they were all personal feudal subjects of the Dalai Lama. Absolute autocratic theocracy, even in exile, until like the 1960s.