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 :)
But it isn’t being disregarded. I think China should change a lot of things, LGBTQ rights included. If they did reforms like Cuba tomorrow it’d be a positive thing, for sure. But then there’s still the issues of education, animal agriculture, corruption, liberalism growing in the CPC, among other things.
It just becomes really useless to have a discussion about politics when you adopt this “let’s find the good guys and the bad guys” mindset, which I think ironically you might say is the essence of ‘campism.’ You’re acting like the reason we like China is we think they’re ontologically good and everything they do must be for a good reason, when that’s just not true and an absolutely infantile way to see the world.