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 :)
The existence of patriots is evidence of improving working conditions now? Daym, USA must be the best country in the world.
It’s not that people who love China exist at all, it’s the fact that they’re 90% of the population.
Uh huh, sure buddy
From https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/
“Color revolutions” when facts don’t match the narrative, impeccable trust when they do. So it goes…
this was your claim. That’s what I was responding to. Nothing about color revolutions or whatever you’re on about now.
Don’t see how your link addresses my reply about LGBT-repression cope but ok.
I replied to that specific part elsewhere, and you got a reply from Cowbee that I think was better than mine.