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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

Oh, and it actively tries to censor and erase the fact that it ran down its own citizens with tanks.

Are you saying that China doesn't censor or try to hide this? Can I just go to Tienanmen square and start talking to locals about what happened there and they'll openly talk about how awful it was?

[-] McCainRBGcreampie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

What do you think happened at Tienanmen Square? Because you might want to figure that out before you start grinning like a moron while asking a Chinese person about "how awful what happened at Tienanmen Square was".

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I don't understand what you're trying to get at here. Are you suggesting there was no massacre?

[-] McCainRBGcreampie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not at Tienanmen Square. Confirmed by western reporters at the scene along with contemporary US diplomatic cables later leaked by Wikileaks. Western media is really attached to that image of the guy in front of a tank, so everyone just pretends it was the site of a mass murder. Really odd.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It's really not that odd.

[-] McCainRBGcreampie@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is. The only evidence of a massacre of protestors in Tienanmen Square presented in that article is Wu'erkaixi's claim that he saw 200 people shot, but he had actually left the protests hours before the final protestors left, and literally everyone else present (including western journalists) says that the last protestors left peacefully.

Edit: Here's an overview from the former Beijing bureau chief of The Washington Post, who was in Beijing covering the protests in 1989.