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Palden Yeshi, a Tibetan monk and teacher from eastern Tibet, has reportedly been sentenced to six years in prison by Chinese authorities for teaching the Tibetan language to local children during school holidays, according to a report by the Dharamshala-based independent radio station Voice of Tibet (VoT).

He was a teacher at Karze Monastery in Tehor, Karze County, and was arrested on May 17, 2021, while serving at the monastery. According to sources cited by VoT, Chinese police suddenly arrived at the monastery and detained him without prior notice, forcibly taking him away.

Following his detention, authorities did not provide his family with clear information regarding the reasons for his arrest or the legal basis for the charges against him.

Sources indicate that the primary reason for his detention was his efforts to teach the Tibetan language to more than 300 local children during school holidays. The classes were reportedly organized for young students from nearby communities who wished to learn Tibetan reading and writing. Chinese authorities are believed to have deemed these voluntary language lessons illegal.

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In related news, China bars Tibetan government employees from religious rites and family funerals.

Tibetans employed in government positions have been strictly forbidden from engaging in religious practices. While they are technically allowed to visit major religious sites such as the Jokhang Temple (Tsuglakhang) and the Potala Palace during Losar, their presence is limited to sightseeing purposes only.

They are expressly prohibited from offering prayers, making ritual offerings, performing prostrations, or displaying any other forms of religious devotion. Authorities reportedly warned that such acts would constitute violations of Communist Party discipline.

The restrictions extend into private family life. Government employees are said to be barred not only from participating in public religious ceremonies but also from attending last rites, weekly memorial prayer services, and cremation rituals for their own deceased relatives. A Lhasa resident told TT that even the traditional seventh-day prayers for the departed cannot be attended by those in state employment.

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[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 62 points 5 days ago

Who says China is an authoritarian regime? You can't prove that. /s

[-] bazo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Just saw a post about their social credit score and lots of comments telling how 90% of their population is very happy and very supportive of the government. Idk if they are bots or people believing this.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

to be fair the social credit score as it is imagined by westerners with AIs tracking your every move to make a number go up or down that determines your standing in society is fiction. What does exist are two separate systems; one for creditworthiness like all creditworthiness systems around the world and another system that leaves you on a blacklist if you intentionally don't pay off your debts. that system can actually prevent you from taking high speed rail (among other things i can't remember), and some people who are not very aware of the world may have gotten into debt, didn't notice, didn't pay their debts, got blacklisted and only noticed when they tried to take the high speed rail somewhere.

to be fair to critics of china too, this (meaning this lemmy post and other political persecution up to possible genocide) is absolutely terrible and inexcusable. i sincerely detest nationalism, but that's what the ccp leadership wants, using many means, and I can't square that circle.

I'm sure the blacklisting system has been abused before too. i just don't interact a lot with chinese news and the chinese internet, and i might not even be able to check if i did try. i know there was that boxer who beat up martial artists who was on the blacklist system, but I don't know if that was from debt or from persecution. i know the general media vibe here in the west was persecution, but there's no way I'm going to trust vibes about that.

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

the UK and Australian Governments imprison climate change protestors for years...

it's intrinsic in all governments to be authoritarian, they own the monopoly on violence

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[-] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 50 points 5 days ago
[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

AKA cultural genocide.

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Tankies will look you dead in the eyes and tell you this isn't colonialism. 

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Tankies will look at the source and get to know the facts first since they are methodical, thorough and want to know about the subject.
They will not make the mistake of unconditionally taking garbage from a Sinophobe (his entire and prolific post history) as truth and make an idiotic comment in reply.

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[-] CromulantCrow@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

ITT

"It's a lie!" "It's the truth!" "Nuh-uh!" "Uh-huh!"

It's almost as if obfuscation of the truth were the goal. I wonder who that benefits...

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

If benefits the capitalist class, lately also known as the Epstein class.

Previously:

But muh Media Bias/Fact Check says it checks out!

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/

Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.

Van Zandt is some hobbyist who was in the right place at the right time: the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts and the Cambridge Analytica hysteria.

The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:

The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class, but people like Van Zandt don’t seem to understand this.

The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine


Previously:

I said “these kinds of graphs,” of which there are many https://duckduckgo.com/?q=media+bias+chart&iax=images&ia=images

But you’ve sparked an idea for an interesting project: use MBFC’s API to create one of these graphs from their own data. Doing a little googling, it seems that scripts and data dumps aren’t hard to come by.

I think armchair media analyst Dave M. Van Zandt is going on vibes. I don’t think he understands corporate & think tank media. Does he know who Walter Lippman or Edward Bernays were, or what the Council on Foreign Relations (“least biased” 🤡) is or made note of its prominent media members? Does he know about the Powell memorandum or the Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy?

No results found for site:mediabiasfactcheck.com "manufacturing consent".

I’ve seen The Grayzone debunk the New York Times’ lies many times, and yet:

Also, in what universe is the neoliberal, anti-labor NYT center-left? And if the Grayzone in the ultraviolet territory, where does that leave the explicitly Communist Monthly Review, outside of MBFC’s Overton window? Surprise, it’s to the right of it:


Previously:

The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The deeper I get into the CFR the worse things look.

Have you noticed the connection between the Council on Foreign Relations and the Heritage Foundation? I've seen they seem to share membership rolls. The membership list is open on both web sites.

That's weird!

They don't even bother hiding it any more, there's no need. They can operate right out in the open, and no one will report on their obvious connection and financiers.

I've found that it's difficult to even discuss in public, as it's dismissed as "conspiracy theories". Even though the data is from the actual sources themselves and not reported.

It seems that if it's not "reported" by the very tools of the beast, the population has been trained to dismiss it.

great post, friend

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

no one will report on their obvious connection and financiers

The media sure won’t mention it, because those same financiers own the media. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If you're ever bored, check out JP Morgan (the man) from 1800s and follow it up through today (the super bank), you can watch the web expand through the years, inexorably

[-] rmrf@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Legendary comment. Do you have a blog or anything?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Thanks! No blog; just a small collection of zingers after ~3 years of Lemmy conversations.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 days ago

Today they kill Tibetan Language, tomorrow they'll kill Cantonese Language (I mean they are already trying to kill it right now), My Native Language

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

This is silly. Tibetan language remains a core subject in Tibet's schools, with bilingual education policy in place since the founding of modern schooling in the region. The Tibet Autonomous Region government confirms that over 400 types of Tibetan-Chinese bilingual textbooks have been compiled, and terminology databases covering 12 academic disciplines support Tibetan instruction across subjects. Public signage, government documents, and media in Tibet routinely use both languages. Tibetan is also widely spoken throught the region.

Mandarin is promoted as the national common language because it gives Tibetan speakers practical access to higher education, civil service exams, legal aid, healthcare systems, and economic opportunities beyond local borders. China's Constitution and the National Common Language Law explicitly protect the right of all ethnic groups to use and develop their own languages while establishing Mandarin as the common language for national communication. In schools across Tibet, both Tibetan and Mandarin courses are offered, and students who wish to pursue Tibetan-language university programs can still take Tibetan language exams organized by the region.

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[-] pet1t@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i'd be pretty stoked to see tibetan theocrats rekt.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That would be a pretty shocking deviation from the current policy where over 90% of students in Tibet receive a bilingual education in primary and middle school.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

thanks china, for freeing tibet

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

A lot of people don’t like fake news.

But this is par for the course from Hotznplotzn and his ~~sockpuppets~~ friends.

[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

So are you going to address the claims or not?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

The burden of proof is on the claimants. It’s on the reporter and the US-funded Voice of Tibet and @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org and the Dali “suck my tongue”, “in the Epstein files 169 times” Lama.

[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Fair enough

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[-] Chough@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago

It's sad that the government is trying to destroy the aspects of Tibet that make it unique.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

It is called cultural genocide

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Chinese government ain't no better than our's

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