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?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

  • eskimofry@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    This is just your own personal justification

    the gaslighting continues.

    You seem smug about your own “well learnedness” but fail to think about the claim

    there is nothing insidious about me saying that the enemies of the US empire are not the evil empires the US alleges them to be.

    But I am not the US am I. And I am not arguing this. I am saying atrocities are conveniently dusted off saying “there is no evidence” while also asking people to waste their time to provide said evidence only for you to dismiss it as hearsay.

    My goal is to understand the world so as to change it

    you’re unwilling to admit the skeletons in your own closet for which evidence exists.

    Conjuring up ideas of dead bodies where they do not exist where they do not exist or exist in far smaller quantities than portrayed

    which is it? as a neutral observer you’re just playing the same goalshifting and fingerpointing as western imperialist apologists. Don’t pretend you’re any different.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      3·
      12 hours ago

      I’m not gaslighting you, your comment is assuming there’s concrete evidence we are not acknowledging. That’s the fundamental basis point, and your justification is that we know the US Empire is bad. I didn’t bring up the US Empire because of assuming you’re statesian, but because it’s the world hegemon.