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Western media in a nutshell
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Fun fact, Tank Man at Tiananmen wasn't run over by a tank, and despite the event being called the "Tiananmen massacre" leaked US embassy cables say no one was shot at the square.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html
Western media also never seem to mention the dozen or so police officers who were killed and immolated before the repression started, somehow that's irrelevant or something. Can you imagine how things would have gone if a dozen police officer had been murdered and burnt during the WTC protests in 1999, or BLM?
my favorite part about these kinds of comments is that the article they commonly cite basically says there was no tiananmen massacre because the massacre happened outside of the square in the rest of beijing, and that's treated like it's some big gotcha
The fact that the official statements are decisively false is a gotcha yes. Why would you trust the rest of the reporting and official story when you know they lied about basic things like this. What makes you think that the number they throw around is anywhere close to reality when they can't even tell you where the events happen?
It's not like China even denies that people died.
You can look at the pictures I linked too, plenty of dead people in them. These are available from the Chinese state.
I'm less concerned about the specifics of where it happened and how many people died, and more concerned about how military personnel shot live ammunition at citizens.
Yes I know it's crazy right, even the Chinese government doesn't deny they shot people after at least a dozen police/soliders were killed and immolated and others taken hostage... In a similar situation, I am absolutely sure that the west would not use lethal force...
I don't think you are proving the point you think you're proving.
you're right, i think we're in agreement. the side with guns and tanks retaliated against the side with bricks and molotov cocktails by opening fire
No, I don't think we are. So tell me, how would the west react in a similar situation?
Not fifteen years before in the US the national guards shot at a group of 300 protestors who hadn't been occupying the place for months, didn't have Molotov cocktails, didn't take hostages, didn't immolate anyone. They killed four, and wounded nine.
Yeah, yeah... This government is shitty, that government is shitty, let's have a big, shitty government dick swinging contest!
What do you think the state should do when a group, funded with millions of foreign dollars, starts burning and kidnapping police/soldiers?
If this happened here y'all would be the first to enlist, I guarantee it.
So that first articles lists its only source as "secret cables". Isn't that exactly what this meme is about?
No, leaked official cables of the secret designation is not the same thing as an anonymous source. The secret designation only denotes that these cables were intended for people with a clearance level of secret (as opposed to say No foreign, Top Secret, etc). The cables authenticity leave no doubt and have been thoroughly investigated by journalists.
You can read these cables for yourself on WikiLeaks (I don't know why the telegraph wouldn't simply link to them).
Here's one for example:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html