Dear Jimmy Li
Thank you for your message. I acknowledge that the Western Media
certainly has a role in producing negative images of the Chinese
government and also the present crisis in Tibet. I am also very sure
that at times papers, and other forms of Western media make your
government and its actions look worse than it actually is for the sake
of making the news.
However, I believe that very strong issues and human rights abuses
remain. To be honest with you I could spend a long time dragging
through layers of historical evidence and ongoing issues but I cannot be
bothered to debate with you; anyway to look at some of the 'evidence'
that might have shaped my own interpretations check out Amnesty
international for details.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/search.asp?q=+tibet&submitted=-1
I also think that you did not read my email. Like an email posted by Dr
Larch Maxey recently I was merely signing up to join a collective
petition... I.e. the Tibetan Olympic Team. However, rather than
acknowledging this, you have simply decided to be critically of me
personally. In this list when disagreement occurs - and thankfully it
is often - there is usually a way of talking to one another critically
without resorting to 'shaming' one another, or calling one another
'ignorant'. I have felt that that it is the discussion of one another's
ideas critically - as opposed to discussing them through aggressive and
shaming words - that results in this 'loose' and often blurry thing we
call academic discussion. In this regard if you wish to be critical of
my decision to support Team Tibet I would appreciate it if you would do
this without aggressive confrontation and or intimidation tactics
towards myself or other list members
Yours
Dr Andy Law
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