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 :)
Hey buddy, from one academic to another, you sound dumb as fuck.
Oh your an academic? Name every academy.
sorry sir u didnt graduate college so even tho i could apparebtly write a comment totally pwning u, instead in going to talk down to u!!!
Shut up, trash.
imagine typing this unironically lmao
Reply some more.
Sure.
Edit: quick edit btw but dog, you realize every time I reply, it’s because you replied, right? “Reply more”. Embarrassing.
Go ahead, reply again. You look so good right now.
Uh, okay? Yes, you are embarrassing yourself further, correct.
Sorry, did you somehow think this comment would do anything other than embarrass you?
I’m happy to swat down smarmy dilettantes. It’s fun, especially because folks in academia don’t type like that in their free time, which leads me to think this was an undergrad. Which is hilarious.
Okay elitist lol
Good talk, champ.