No, I definitely remember when the mainstream media jumped at the chance to smear one of the most peaceful spiritual figures alive, context be damned. They took a culturally unfamiliar moment and ran it through a Western lens to manufacture outrage. And look, they’re still collecting dividends on it!
It is a cultural difference slightly taken out of context. Albeit it is incredibly jarring for Americans and other European countries. He did issue an apology for it.
Have people forgot already the “suck my tongue” pedo shit this guy pulled out?
No, I definitely remember when the mainstream media jumped at the chance to smear one of the most peaceful spiritual figures alive, context be damned. They took a culturally unfamiliar moment and ran it through a Western lens to manufacture outrage. And look, they’re still collecting dividends on it!
He asked a child to suck his tongue, there’s no context the guy is a pedo
Wtf do you think context is?
Yeah. Just like theatre guys tell others to “break a leg”. There’s no context. Every one of them is a psychopath for wishing harm.
That does sound like something the Dalai Lama would say.
It is a cultural difference slightly taken out of context. Albeit it is incredibly jarring for Americans and other European countries. He did issue an apology for it.
Go on …
This is a perfectly normal thing in Tibetan culture?
Sort of. According to residents who defended him they said it is a normal joke that elderly people to do children in Tibet.