It didn't have all this vitriol against China associated with it.
I personally thought it was commonly interpreted a different way, but it's hard to explain. Would be interesting to dig up some ancient reddit posts about it
edit: first try https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hsdct/on_this_day_22_years_ago_tank_man_became_one_of/
In my lifetime it's definitely morphed from a sort of uplifting idea about the power of 'simple humanity standing up in the face of authoritarianism or the war machine' into a sort of bizarre invented 'last moments' pre-gore pic for a lot of wild accusations without much basis in reality.
Sort of uplifting anti-authoritarian shorthand turned dehumanizing atrocity propaganda for a bunch of gruesome urban legend stuff.
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I swear the meaning of this photo (in the eyes of the general public) has changed in just the last 10 years.
How so?
It didn't have all this vitriol against China associated with it.
I personally thought it was commonly interpreted a different way, but it's hard to explain. Would be interesting to dig up some ancient reddit posts about it
edit: first try https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hsdct/on_this_day_22_years_ago_tank_man_became_one_of/
In my lifetime it's definitely morphed from a sort of uplifting idea about the power of 'simple humanity standing up in the face of authoritarianism or the war machine' into a sort of bizarre invented 'last moments' pre-gore pic for a lot of wild accusations without much basis in reality.
Sort of uplifting anti-authoritarian shorthand turned dehumanizing atrocity propaganda for a bunch of gruesome urban legend stuff.
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