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The redditor "Tienanmen Square massacre" narrative is flat earther levels of crank shit and needs to be recognized as such. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the "10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter" bs are cranks. It's jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn't real level of crank shit and unless you're feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

Here's a good aggregation of sources, many of the mainstream western press:

https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/

some of the lib-friendly sources used:

https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/13/world/turmoil-china-tiananmen-crackdown-student-s-account-questioned-major-points.html

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[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 4 months ago

Unnamed experts close to the intelligence community have confirmed that that they've seen "solid evidence" of the massacre, but they can't show you because the only copies of the evidence are held by the millions of US MIA POWs still being held in secret Vietnamese prisons.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

I HATE POWMIA I HATE POWMIA I HATE POWMIA boohoo bocchi-glitch monke-rage

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

Literally is on the same level. Like you got people who think the DPRK is one giant stage show put on to fool people that it's a functional country. Then you got the same people who believe the earth is flat and NASA doctors the space shuttle footage ahead of time to keep the proles from knowing the truth. same-picture

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

clueless

Sorry comrades, I'm absolutely clueless

Can someone please explain this event to me? I know it's grossly exaggerated and there's some CIA elements to it like operation yellowbird but I can't seem to get over the rut of smuglord fucks enthusiastically using it to shut me down when we have a discussion.

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

To start https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php

There was also a Portuguese(?) ambassador who gave a first hand account that pretty much disproves the "accepted narrative" but I'm not looking up sources on my lunch break

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

There was also a Spanish news crew in the square all night. They show some footage of the corpses of some of the PLA soldiers that were tortured to death, and a couple civilian corpses as well, but you can clearly see when the order to disperse was given and the news crew follows the crowd out of the square as they sing The Internationale.

I'm also on lunch break, so same on finding a source

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 4 months ago

It's been wild watching reddit get more and more outrageous every year. It's like a yearly holiday for redditors where they try to make up the craziest bullshit they can and then all agree to believe it.