Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and lemmygrad.ml [http://lemmygrad.ml]. Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed): https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/] Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417] And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [https://lemmy.world/post/16235541] What is a tankie? Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]
  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    I'm reading A. B. Abrams - Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order. And I'm confused, he states that the Tianamen square protestors were protesting in favor of a stricter adherence to Maoist principals but also at the same time that were turbo libs and wanted western style "democracy", not to mention the "anti-government insurgents"

    Please send help. All of this can make sense in a disorganized movement but he does a poor job of explaining this imo.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      There were different blocs. There were both weirdo libs and anti-Deng Maoists/ultras involved, who wanted diametrically opposite things. The western liberal narrative is that the maoists were a small bloc (if they acknowledge them at all) and the liberals were the bulk of the protesters, and AFAIK the ultra narrative is that the maoists were the main movement and the liberals were tangentially present wreckers.

      • AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        Not to mention that the liberals were trying their hardest to get some bloodshed happening so that they could cry about the government's 'brutality' and lack of democracy. I think one of the liberal leaders actually said that other atudents should be brutalised for her cause but not her because she was too important.

      • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        "4) When protests broke out in China in April 1989, demonstrators were not calling for democracy, but purer socialism, free of corruption and inequality, which were endemic at the time. Students carried pictures of Chairman Mao and sang the Chinese national anthem repeatedly.

        Western hybrid warfare includes two key principles:

        1. Locate and amplify GENUINE local grievances, and

        2. Rebrand them as calls for western liberal democracy and freedom."

        interesting