After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying “99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in ‘Tiny Man Square’ […] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda […],” I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn’t change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.
I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.
Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?
I think you’re probably the only person in this thread that’s actually tried to put yourself in our shoes and see things from our perspective. I still disagree with calling China a capitalist country and I think calling a nation-state terms like authoritarian, police-state, etc is redundant. But thanks for actually thinking it through and not making it a pure us vs them issue.