Dalai Lama kisses and ask Indian boy to suck his tongue

[Mother of Puppies 35,722]

I remember when Gaga did that press conference thingy with him - he touched her leg or something in a weird way & that always rubbed me the wrong way. I found it very uncomfortable & creepy…

and I think Gaga was uncomfortable too & acted it off… 
 

There are no „holy people“ in the world- everyone is just a person & should be treated as such. He also uses the toilet like we all do, he probably jerks off like most men & if he does this shit to children he should be punished. 

 

edit: I found the video - I put a time stamp. I always found it creepy... if any "normal" man would do that, it would be sexual harassment, but if "your holiness" does that, it's ok. I dunno... I find it weird and unsettling. (And that wasn't the only time)

 

[ShayCristoforo 10,528]

They out here accusing drag queens of problematic behavior, but it's a religion leader (religion strikes again).

Hypocrisy, Part 2038

[SevenWonder 3,949]

A religious person being incredibly, wildly inappropriate? Why I never.

 

What's next? You'll tell me water is wet?

[SarahYuko 1,002]

This is gonna read as TMI to a lot of people but I don't really care right now. I'm a tribal Indian girl who has had parents, grandparents, caregivers stick their tongue in my mouth as a child (and ONLY as a child) - in our specific culture, it's called "infah" and it happens when sweets or betelnut are passed from the mouth of an adult chewing the hard stuff to a child who then eats the softened paste. It's been done in jest as much as to actually share chewed food. And that's just one group of us, we're not so special that I would believe we are the subcontinent's only exception. I'm quite irritated every single time Westerners hop on their echo chamber social media accounts and decide to be arbiters of absolute morality throughout the world; it's already annoying enough between communities within the country itself. You think Haq really knows about complicated cultural specifics?

To label the Dalai Lama a p***phile, a s** offender and to immediately call for his imprisonment is something that reads to me as the parroting of western arrogance above all else. Some of you don't realize how incredibly different things are out here - on the actual ground between real people offline and not constantly updating their moral standards from social media posts of chronically online progressives - from just 15 years ago, or even 10, or even just since the Trump era. You don't know what life is like here, and how far removed we have been from your circles of judgement until very very recently. Let's start by not acting like the playing field is even. I'm not a traumatized victim of assault at the hands of all those adults, and the best case scenario for the boy is that it didn't impress on him as a traumatic harassment incident either, even if that is a slightly inconvenient story for the anti-religious-leader narrative we'd like to tell ourselves. Obviously I'm hopeful the Dalai Lama and his followers understand why that is rightfully unacceptable now, but by God I'm just so incredibly irked by the high horses surrounding us today.

[waterfall 793]

poor kid

why do people follow his religion if he like this 

[thatfoxyfeeling 12,812]

6 hours ago, SarahYuko said:

This is gonna read as TMI to a lot of people but I don't really care right now. I'm a tribal Indian girl who has had parents, grandparents, caregivers stick their tongue in my mouth as a child (and ONLY as a child) - in our specific culture, it's called "infah" and it happens when sweets or betelnut are passed from the mouth of an adult chewing the hard stuff to a child who then eats the softened paste. It's been done in jest as much as to actually share chewed food. And that's just one group of us, we're not so special that I would believe we are the subcontinent's only exception. I'm quite irritated every single time Westerners hop on their echo chamber social media accounts and decide to be arbiters of absolute morality throughout the world; it's already annoying enough between communities within the country itself. You think Haq really knows about complicated cultural specifics?

To label the Dalai Lama a p***phile, a s** offender and to immediately call for his imprisonment is something that reads to me as the parroting of western arrogance above all else. Some of you don't realize how incredibly different things are out here - on the actual ground between real people offline and not constantly updating their moral standards from social media posts of chronically online progressives - from just 15 years ago, or even 10, or even just since the Trump era. You don't know what life is like here, and how far removed we have been from your circles of judgement until very very recently. Let's start by not acting like the playing field is even. I'm not a traumatized victim of assault at the hands of all those adults, and the best case scenario for the boy is that it didn't impress on him as a traumatic harassment incident either, even if that is a slightly inconvenient story for the anti-religious-leader narrative we'd like to tell ourselves. Obviously I'm hopeful the Dalai Lama and his followers understand why that is rightfully unacceptable now, but by God I'm just so incredibly irked by the high horses surrounding us today.

I personally don't think he's anything of the sort people have been calling him on the internet but I was taken back by how forceful he was with the child. It's like he was using his power as a religious leader to physically pull the child in for a hug repeatedly and that tickle at the end, very strange behaviour. 

https://twitter.com/liveuk/status/1645315678209994753?t=Hdzf81vQRGeJB8QZ3opnFQ&s=19

 

[SarahYuko 1,002]

20 minutes ago, thatfoxyfeeling said:

I personally don't think he's anything of the sort people have been calling him on the internet but I was taken back by how forceful he was with the child. It's like he was using his power as a religious leader to physically pull the child in for a hug repeatedly and that tickle at the end, very strange behaviour. 

https://twitter.com/liveuk/status/1645315678209994753?t=Hdzf81vQRGeJB8QZ3opnFQ&s=19

 

I'm sorry but that is such a melodramatic reading of this. I don't see forcefulness. I don't see how it's dramatically worse from how other adults tease children, they can seem merciless to outsider eyes, even just verbally. Hell sometimes even I cringe. I didn't even see the video before and if this is what's causing foreigners to outrage, you'd flip if you saw how we were teased as children, how children are still teased today especially in less than urban spaces. An old man's annoying joke could not be more obvious to me. Do you guys seriously, fully believe for one second that he did this despite thinking it's s**ual harrassment bc he gets a religious leader pass? To me, the Occam's Razor explanation is entirely not that.

[alsemanche 92,183]

1 hour ago, SarahYuko said:

Do you guys seriously, fully believe for one second that he did this despite thinking it's s**ual harrassment bc he gets a religious leader pass?

Seeing how many times religious figures and men in power in general have done this and gotten away with it, absolutely yes 

[thatfoxyfeeling 12,812]

1 hour ago, SarahYuko said:

I'm sorry but that is such a melodramatic reading of this. I don't see forcefulness. I don't see how it's dramatically worse from how other adults tease children, they can seem merciless to outsider eyes, even just verbally. Hell sometimes even I cringe. I didn't even see the video before and if this is what's causing foreigners to outrage, you'd flip if you saw how we were teased as children, how children are still teased today especially in less than urban spaces. An old man's annoying joke could not be more obvious to me. Do you guys seriously, fully believe for one second that he did this despite thinking it's s**ual harrassment bc he gets a religious leader pass? To me, the Occam's Razor explanation is entirely not that.

You're saying I'm being melodramatic well I'm gonna say you're being naïve and let's leave it at that. 

[Monstermilo 3,920]

this is why i think religion is dangerous 

a lot of christian and catholic priests have been raping kids for hundreds of years and now this weird BS 

its also hilarious to see catholics pissed at this, but quiet when priests have been exposed for SAing kids in their churches

[Celloo Deng 53,858]

19 hours ago, Bradley said:

 

'teasing in an innocent and playful way'

'suck my tongue'

I can't even believe this so-called apology is real. The fact that they glossed over what actually happened speaks volumes. 

[butthole 9,861]

3 hours ago, SarahYuko said:

I'm sorry but that is such a melodramatic reading of this. I don't see forcefulness. I don't see how it's dramatically worse from how other adults tease children, they can seem merciless to outsider eyes, even just verbally. Hell sometimes even I cringe. I didn't even see the video before and if this is what's causing foreigners to outrage, you'd flip if you saw how we were teased as children, how children are still teased today especially in less than urban spaces. An old man's annoying joke could not be more obvious to me. Do you guys seriously, fully believe for one second that he did this despite thinking it's s**ual harrassment bc he gets a religious leader pass? To me, the Occam's Razor explanation is entirely not that.

all I'm getting from you is that you don't have a firm grasp on bodily autonomy of children and they somehow deserve to be intimately violated just because you consider it normal.

[SharkmanthaC 111,669]

12 hours ago, SarahYuko said:

This is gonna read as TMI to a lot of people but I don't really care right now. I'm a tribal Indian girl who has had parents, grandparents, caregivers stick their tongue in my mouth as a child (and ONLY as a child) - in our specific culture, it's called "infah" and it happens when sweets or betelnut are passed from the mouth of an adult chewing the hard stuff to a child who then eats the softened paste. It's been done in jest as much as to actually share chewed food. And that's just one group of us, we're not so special that I would believe we are the subcontinent's only exception. I'm quite irritated every single time Westerners hop on their echo chamber social media accounts and decide to be arbiters of absolute morality throughout the world; it's already annoying enough between communities within the country itself. You think Haq really knows about complicated cultural specifics?

To label the Dalai Lama a p***phile, a s** offender and to immediately call for his imprisonment is something that reads to me as the parroting of western arrogance above all else. Some of you don't realize how incredibly different things are out here - on the actual ground between real people offline and not constantly updating their moral standards from social media posts of chronically online progressives - from just 15 years ago, or even 10, or even just since the Trump era. You don't know what life is like here, and how far removed we have been from your circles of judgement until very very recently. Let's start by not acting like the playing field is even. I'm not a traumatized victim of assault at the hands of all those adults, and the best case scenario for the boy is that it didn't impress on him as a traumatic harassment incident either, even if that is a slightly inconvenient story for the anti-religious-leader narrative we'd like to tell ourselves. Obviously I'm hopeful the Dalai Lama and his followers understand why that is rightfully unacceptable now, but by God I'm just so incredibly irked by the high horses surrounding us today.

I'm all for cultures being able to do what is tradition. But child abuse, child sexual assault, etc is still wrong, I do not care what is "tradition."  There are many cultures where it's normal for girls to get married at 12 or just slightly older, that's still child abuse and pedophilia. There are some cultures where it's okay to mutilate a female's genitals, which is still wrong. I don't care if you look at it from a western culture perspective or another culture. Abuse and assault is still abuse and assault. Traditions need to be changed in these cases.

[SharkmanthaC 111,669]

15 hours ago, Mother of Puppies said:

I remember when Gaga did that press conference thingy with him - he touched her leg or something in a weird way & that always rubbed me the wrong way. I found it very uncomfortable & creepy…

and I think Gaga was uncomfortable too & acted it off… 
 

There are no „holy people“ in the world- everyone is just a person & should be treated as such. He also uses the toilet like we all do, he probably jerks off like most men & if he does this **** to children he should be punished. 

 

edit: I found the video - I put a time stamp. I always found it creepy... if any "normal" man would do that, it would be sexual harassment, but if "your holiness" does that, it's ok. I dunno... I find it weird and unsettling. (And that wasn't the only time)

 

Oh I remember cringing when watching this the first time. It's like because her leg is exposed he felt the need to touch her.

[InTheCloset 17,808]

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