Hey Randall. This room is empty. Its just you and me now. All others have long ago abandoned the fray. So are you ready to learn something, or are you just going to defend without listening?

Think about what you just wrote. "I don't know much about this situation". Very good. First step. You don't know much about the former Yugoslovia. Well guess what, the entire educated world agrees that history proves, beyond any shadow of a doubt that Milosevic ordered Genocide. So ask yourself, why is Parenti defending the genocidal ruler of Serbia? And doesn't it strike you as funny that Parenti is also defending the mass murderers who rule China and Tibet?

Think. I spent more than30 years of my life in Asia; years in Tibet. And you don't even know if Parenti has ever even been to Tibet but you are going to take his word over mine about Tibet?

Why? Why is it so important to you that Parenti's false description of Tibetan society is 'true'? If Parenti is willing to lie about genocide in Yugoslovia... might he not be willing to do the same thing in Tibet?

Think. We can all change, learn, grow.... you don't have to stick to reflexive positions

Randall Jones keeps offering "additional information" about Tibet--without telling readers that one of the sources he recomends, Michael Parenti, also helped to organize the defense of Slobodan Milosevic.

Milosevic was tried for crimes against humanity, and for organizing the first acts of
genocide in Europe since WWII. But Jones does not see fit to mention this when recommending that unwary readers might want to listen to Parenti.

I am puzzled about Jones' motivation. Why offer Parenti as a source about Tibet's
social structure when there are dozens of books that are accepted as being
historically accurate—from people who speak Tibetan. Why offer evidence about Tibet from such a tainted source? Has Parenti been to Tibet? Does he speak Tibetan?

Or is Parenti qualified to speak about Tibet because he is one of the very few US academics who has devotedly supported Marxist thought for decades?

Randall, you claim to be offering 'additional' information, and then you coyly source it from genocide defenders? And you want to talk about hypocrisy?