.world lemmitors living in western countries on the verge of fascism really be shaking to post anticommunist CIA propaganda on their favourite day of the year
Tankies unable to fathom that you can be critical of both fascism and the authoritarian state capitalism which is China.
This is why I find this stuff so bewildering, even Wikipedia says no one died in the square. It was hectic around Mudixi, with buses of soldiers being torched and the burnted bodies being strung up. People there were absolutely shot at and killed.
It was an insane week with a lot happening, many different groups with their own motives, and so many details unclear. It's weird that anti China rhetoric insists on something that didn't happen, pushing a false narrative that's so easy to dispell and distracts from the real violence and politics of the time.
While I agree that it is not known and a bit inaccurate, saying that it’s the Tiananmen Square massacre is a relatively harmless simplification, as there were dead people nearby and they originally were there.
even Wikipedia says no one died in the square.
The Chinese Red Cross had given a figure of 2,600 deaths but later denied having given such a figure.[16][17] The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700.[18] Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times wrote on 21 June that "it seems plausible that about a dozen soldiers and policemen were killed, along with 400 to 800 civilians.
Finally, a meme I can post on grad
When you love being insulted:
The official report back to the Uk government was even worse than the sanitised stuff we got on TV. Even the Chinese government don't know how many were killed.
https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2020-0353/FCO_21_4200.pdf
This shit is an heavy read... I profoundly dislike it.
Doesn't the United States do a similar thing in weaponizing the police against its own citizens? U.S. police violence against protesters, police killings of black and brown people, police killing of mentally ill people. Using military surplus weapons from Iraq and war tactics against its own citizens (LRAD weapons, mass arrests, tear gas).(Kent State Shooting, Civil Rights Movement, George Floyd protests, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine protests).
Jk, that shit happens, but when it does it becomes massive news stories instead of being suppressed, and it is allowed to have ripple effects across politics and society instead of the government imprisoning anyone who mentions abuses.
but when it does it becomes massive news stories instead of being suppressed, and it is allowed to have ripple effects across politics and society instead of the government imprisoning anyone who mentions abuses.
To be fair, someone else replied to mention the Tulsa Race Massacre... Something that I (and every American I've spoken to about it) did not know existed prior to seeing the Watchmen TV series.
So...
I'm watching the US government running interference for Israel and arresting students for being anti-genocide/ pro-Palestine. Legacy corporate media burying articles on Palestine and Israeli war crimes on US gov't behalf. Legacy corporate media lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a pretense to invade and later laundering and resurrecting war criminal George W. Bush's reputation after the war. Corporate media's suppression of Biden's senility while in office and now Jake Tapper is on a propaganda tour saying what everyone knew all along even though Democratic party insiders would straight up lie about it.
Not saying China good. Obviously what they did is awful. I'm saying the US is also not great.
Tulsa 1921
Not even comparable. Scroll up to the top and read the report from the British Government and then tell me that they're the same.
Or is there an event in US history I wasn't aware of where our military literally liquidized student protestors and swept the resulting sludge into storm drains?
Not yet.
So the U.S. can keep doing so?
Most people were killed when the tanks were on their way towards the square and not in it. So the student would have technically already been dead before it reached Tiananman
"the same number of violent deaths as on any random weekend in the United States."
Use critical thinking here. Even if this is the number, it is equating the violent deaths at a single location to the total number of violent deaths in the entire United States over a weekend. This one little tidbit lets you know of the angle of the article and the misinformation it tries to hide in plain sight.
Lol asking a .ml to use critical thinking... Good luck with that.
you are despicable. seek help and stop boot licking authoritarians
THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre”
immediatly clicked off, and instance checks out
it's not a particularly long post; if you're really confident in the veracity of the narrative you're familiar with then you shouldn't need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.
(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)
Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square?
Was
fashionnothing the reason why they were there?I looked down at the comments.. not surprised. :p
This reminds me of this other Simpson little jewel https://youtu.be/Vx0tkoJY_mk
