An update on that "suck my tongue" story regarding the Dalai Lama--a great example of the way rage-click farming and propaganda (Tibetans are united in their conviction that China is behind the uproar) overlap.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5854/tibetans-explain-what-suck-my-tongue-means-dalai-lama-viral-video

Tibetans Explain What ‘Suck My Tongue’ Means. It’s Not What You Think.

“It seems that many people, forced into an environment of e-connections, have completely forgotten what human connection means.”

@GWillow Even giving the Dalai Lama the benefit of the doubt and accepting all these well constructed explanations, the incident confirms to me he is no living embodiment of the Buddha, but just an old man making a wildly inappropriate comment. One we wouldn't appreciate if it involved our own child and, say, a stranger. Another good reason to be #agnostic