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?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t think America’s concentration camps will go away in 2026. They didn’t go away after Trump lost in 2020.

    Can you show evidence that China has concentration camps?

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      3 hours ago

      Can I show evidence that you won’t hand wave away as “propaganda”? No. I know already that no evidence counter to the courts predetermined conclusion will be admissable.