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From what I read (yes I actually read the walls of text they post) the two weren't exclusive. There were violent protestors during that time, and the protests in the square were minor, nonviolent, and opposed by dispersion via an announcement rather than tanks.
I'm not sure if I believe all that, but it's better to know what they're actually saying, imo
"I'm not sure if I believe"
There's nothing to believe. Tankie lies are exactly that
So instead of twisting the truth to fit a narrative, they just make shit up?
There were over a 100,000 people at the square protesting. There were priests in over 400 Chinese cities.
The CIA was driving the tanks.
The CCP is actually run by the CIA, therefore, any wrongdoings is Amerikkka's fault.
Checkmate, Westerners! 🤓
There's another theory, which capitalists don't wanna hear. It would disturb them.
Lemmy instances deciding whether to be infested with Nazis or be infested with tankies.
You saw the thread the other day too, huh.
Yeah that was fucked. Gave me some insight into some Lemmy users that's for sure.
Would you mind sharing a link to that thread?
The US 4th Psyops literally advertises their involvement in organizing the Tiananmen protests in their recruiting materials.
Yes the earth is flat, the CIA covered it up in a giant dome... yayaya
Actually the earth was flat originally but the cia rebuilt it to a sphere 🤓🤓🤓
I'm unfamiliar with this one. Can you cite a source?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw
According to YouTube, it's an official government account. It shows a number of historical events (Tiananmen, Euromaidan, others) and asks the question "who was pulling the strings?" then alludes that it was US intervention (which is, of course, why you should join them).
Those are both true though?
Even Wikipedia says there wasn’t a massacre in the square and that there were violent clashes where protesters killed cops.
Kinda weak to talk shit about a group of people when you’re not even federated with em though…
Ok so we have to be federated to a nazi instance to talk shit about nazis? What's your point?
Yeah, I guess that is my point. Fight them instead of talking shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
"At the State Council press conference on 6 June, spokesman Yuan Mu said that "preliminary tallies" by the government showed that about 300 civilians and soldiers died, including 23 students from universities in Beijing, along with some people he described as "ruffians".[229][238] Yuan also said some 5,000 soldiers and police were wounded, along with 2,000 civilians."
300 dead and 7,000 wounded sure soundss like a massacre
You gotta read the whole thing. There wasn’t significant violence in the square, but there absolutely was elsewhere in the area. So they’re right to say there wasn’t a massacre in the square.
The soldiers don’t count towards the total unless you wanna claim it was a massacre of pap and pla members.
Understandable!
Tiananmen Square Protests Wiki
Read about the death toll in and around Tiananmen itself. Around 300 people from both sides died in Beijing, but there is little evidence to support that thousands of protesters were killed in Tiananmen. There have been articles from western sources from reporters who admit that they weren't actually present when they wrote about the incident.
I'm not a tankie, but half-reading and twisting what they say to ridicule them only makes you look bad. The situation was actually much more complex than you want to believe.
It's not about the numbers, it's about the denial and/or the justifying of it. Maybe the official government numbers are correct, but still doesn't justify what they did.
Schools in the US has been teaching me about the fucked up shit the colonizers did. No history teacher that I had ever tried downplay slavery or tried to justify it. (This is not in a red state, so I can't say what red states are like)
By contrast, my older brother who went to school in China until what's equivalent to US's 7th grade was never taught about the events in Tiananmen. It's been erased from the history books.
I wouldn't say the US is the most benevolent country ever (far from it, in fact), but modern US doesn't hide it's history for the most part, China's government hiding it's history isn't really making them seem any more trustworthy.
I'm not a capitalist btw, I'm a left-wing anarchist. Both the US and China aren't anywhere close to being desirable countries to live in.
Red states like Florida are trying to make slavery out to be something that was beneficial to black people. So we aren't far off from China. I grew up in a purple state (WI) and my history classes were all over the place. Didn't help matters that I was tossed in the remedial classes cause of my ADHD, which just dumbed things down a lot instead of doing anything helpful for me.
We still have the first amendment. Kids can still search for information online, even in red states. But once the first amendment is gone, that will be the death of the republic.
I grew up in a red state. Looking back now that i've read more and had opportunities to learn from others of different backgrounds, I can definitively say they omitted events and details to present a more white-washed (pun intended) version of history. I wouldn't say my teachers tried to justify slavery, but there was an outsized emphasis placed on the "states' rights" explanation of the civil war, and they were maybe a bit too quick to point out when former slaves went to work for their former masters (as if this was some evidence that they "were worse off" after emancipation, as opposed to being a reaction to poorly implemented, and/or straight-up racist, reconstruction policies).
I'm glad your teachers didn't shy away from the seedy underbelly of history. But I do want to point out that I didn't even know how myopic my history education was until I got to college (not even from the classes, although those helped, but simply having a more diverse set of friends to talk with). I still learn new things that open my eyes to a whole other topic that I didn't even know was a thing. Don't assume, because you don't know of any gaps in your education, that you don't have any. (I'm sure you already know that, but I'm up on my soap box right now, and it seemed a nice conclusion)
I agree with this, I just think that we shouldn't call out lies by using more lies.
It’s both, and the rioters were the ones that burned people.