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 :)
Its not even the allegations that you and others are arguing don’t exist. It’s this attitude of not acknowledging other people on the platform.
Right then I can just say the same magic words to make uncomfortable questions go away. That’s not how you convince people you are neutral.
Then good luck convincing others to care about your opinions then?
Wow, oh no, I’m not convincing people I’m neutral!
I am not neutral. I stand by workers, people, facts, and good faith. I also still don’t care about you.