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?
Yep was attacked by fellow anarchists ounce because they were sharing epoch media news about mass organ harvesting farms of falun gung members and I was like maybe don’t accept this uncritically which is an extreme example but still something your supposed to take uncritically with no sources outside of this literal fascist cult because to do otherwise you have to defend china even if only from the most nonsensical claims.
Many such cases, I stopped organizing with anarchists because some variation of this was happening in every different group I came across