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Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti writes Loading..., a personal blog at michaelparenti.org about politics and history. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Parenti's Tibet writing, which covers Tibet's pre-1950 society and theocracy. Commenters cite it in threads on China's Tibet policy and on the Dalai Lama.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /Tibet.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-09
What Hacker News says?
Sure. http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
Comment linking /Tibet.html
on “You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make”A reminder of how great life was for Tibetans under the feudal, theocratic serfdom of the lamas [1]. [1] “In old Tibet there were small numbers of farmers who subsisted as a kind of free peasantry, and perhaps an additional 10,000 people who composed the “middle-class” families of merchants, shopkeepers, and small traders. Thousands of others were beggars. There also were slaves, usually domestic servants, who owned…
Comment linking /Tibet.html
on “CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions”Dalai Lama, the slave driver .. Google Tibetan history and see what sorts of "religious order" he wants to implement in Tibet. Chinese are an occupying force there, sure, but the Dalai Lama, if he was no the leader of Tibet, would absolutely deserve a coup and summary hanging. Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under…
Comment linking /Tibet.html
on “Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize”