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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
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.
Wtf do you think context is?
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.