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 :)

    • whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah when I was teen there was none of that. I was getting berated by European and South American communists on mIRC for being an uninformed but opinionated American spouting nonsense about the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. I actually learned a lot getting chewed out by those guys; IRL I was surrounded by southern suburban conservative Christofascists with awful takes on everything