• Alloi@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          whats racist about making fun of someone who asked a child to suck their tongue? are you defending that?

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            1 month ago

            Seemed like cognitive decline to me when he did that. My grandma started making rape allegations near her end and saying absolutely unhinged sexual nonsense.

          • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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            1 month ago

            What you are doing here is using the western culture as a benchmark to judge the culture of another region. Not everything is seen trough a sexual lens, that’s just your western mindset doing that.

            You can read about it here, for example.

            • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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              1 month ago

              No,but the dalai lama who is tibetan and is a believer in tibetan Buddhism which has child sex slaves for most of its existence is in fact a pedophile.

              This is from someone with an East Asian mindset.

              Sucking children’s tongues or vice versa is weird here in China too.

            • SmokeODoggO@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              So its a common greeting but the tongue sucking was teasing? I hate to see the other ways he teases kids.

              Seriously though, I dont think its racism. Maybe its part of the culture and he’s honest saying there’s no sexual intention but also I think pedophiles have a history of saying this isn’t what it looks like when called out.

              • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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                1 month ago

                But he didn’t say that. Others have defended him, yes.

                The Dalai Lama hinself apologised for the joke and acknowledged that it must have sounded strange for a western audience.

                The mother of the boy was sitting in true audience and she wasn’t offended by it at all. She defended the Dalai Lama. That in of itself doesn’t mean anything, I have to admit. If you’re in a cult you tend to close your eyes to abuse. But take a closer look at the whole situation:

                Of course, it could be possible that the person whon spent his live reaching out to the West, preaching about love and kindness, decided to make a very puplic statement about his pedophile nature while beeing on a stage surrounded by cameras. Or it was an interaction between two people of a different culture whom had an exchange that, admittedly, sounds strange to Western ears.

                I know what I think is more likley here. Especially because there was nothing else after this. Usually, once a public person is called out for abusive behaviour, there will be some victims who are encouraged to break their silence. In this case? Nothing. Doesn’t that make you question your assumption of him beeing a pedo at least a bit?

                • SmokeODoggO@lemmy.world
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                  1 month ago

                  Oblivious/unaware people can defend pedos.

                  Glad he apologized cos it was strange.

                  Yes, youre right. Her defending him means nothing here.

                  Plenty of examples in the past of pedos being pedos while cameras role.

                  Yes victims are encouraged to come forward but there’s no obligation. Maybe the victims are still very young or maybe they’re adults or maybe they dont exist, we dont know.

                  I won’t make an accusation without knowing more but I hope people who have the power to investigate do it.