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 :)
Tankies are people who justify state violence to enforce political orthodoxy. You have more in common with the Right Wing than the Left, bud.
Violence against evil people is good! Yes, even when done by a big scary state
Dehumanizing the Working Class as “evil people” is peak ML
you are so unbelievably reddit-minded it should be a crime
That’s a new one. Usually the go-to ML insult against Leftists that don’t agree with them is shitlibs. You get bonus points for creativity but fall utterly at defending your position.
you still are a shitlib, just sayin’
“Everyone I don’t agree with is a shitlib”
I know bud. “Hexbear.net” is a dead giveaway that you lack critical thinking skills.