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 :)

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    11·
    10 hours ago

    “Color revolutions” when facts don’t match the narrative, impeccable trust when they do. So it goes…

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Cope harder buddy, nobody buys that shite except you lot.

      this was your claim. That’s what I was responding to. Nothing about color revolutions or whatever you’re on about now.