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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
The protests lasted over a month; the massacre ended them in a flood of state-sponsored murder.
Dear Tankies, Wumaos, and assorted apologists:
If you want to be banned that badly, you can just ask instead of writing several paragraphs denying easily verified atrocities of historical note.
F yeah
Not trying to be banned or anything, just genuinely confused about the topic. We are reading online articles about something that happened 'long' ago, far away, that can be pointing to one way or the opposite. For me is very difficult to trust one article more than other.. It looks like people that want to believe one side will find something to back their opinion and vicecersa. I don't agree when you say this is 'easily' verifiable. At least I don't find it easily to verify. Happy to be pointed to some source/direction to investigate more.
I think you are correct that there are parts of the protests that are difficult to verify.
Some parts are easy to verify. There are videos and photos. People were killed brutally in the crackdown.
But the reporting and sources from that time (and now) can be a bit lacking. Information was spotty, and of course anything official can't be taken at face value.
We went through some of this in a Chinese Government class I took. This about 10-15 years ago at a U.S. university. We were looking specifically at how many people died. The Chinese government said a couple hundred. Some western media said over 10,000. Hospital records were like 500. The true answer is difficult to know. We sort of have to interpret the claims based on other information that we can verify (photos, different accounts of the events) and make a best guess to what the true range might have been.
Like anything that's been turned into online propaganda these days, a lot of extreme claims are thrown around to support an unrealistic interpretation of facts. For example, western media claiming over 10,000 deaths turns into "western media was lying to make China look bad" turns into "it didn't happen".
If I have time later I'll try to revisit this thread and point you to some of the better sources I found.
TL;DR: good faith skepticism of specifics can help us learn. However, tankie/wumao skepticism is not really grounded in fact
Good comment.
🤣 you stupider then you know
My friend, you should breathe a bit deeper and self reflect on what's bothering you. I doubt a person asking an honest question is it.
Are you though? Or are you someone trying to sow doubt and obfuscate the topic without getting banned? Cause if a person digs hard enough it's pretty easy to find pictures and videos of Chinese soldiers murdering students in what is easily identifiably as Tiananmen Square. And the pictures are very graphic as to what happened to some of those students I.E. do you know what it actually looks like when a person is run over by a tank?
Same. Any genuine person wouldnt doubt that the sky is blue. Learn to learn.
What about when the sky is not blue?