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  • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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    3 years ago

    Diablo 2 was technically banned but every internet cafe I went to had it so it certainly wasn't enforced.

    Also I know it's a reddit favorite but when I lived in China none of the University students I talked to had even heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

      • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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        3 years ago

        Yep this sounds to me like one of those 'on the street' comedy segments where they ask randos to find Nebraska on a map and no one can. No one is hiding info about Nebraska from the public, everyone is just dumb.

        Probably the same thing in china, they just sleept through history class

        • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          literally any kind of vaguely maybe truish no-context factoid about the Soviet Union China: this is evidence that they are a failed state, or that they are up to no good.

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          3 years ago

          In particular also because there was never a massacre in the square so its not something you would learn, by comparison a city wide unrest is still a significant historical event but not something everyone is guaranteed to know.

          Id wager a lot of Americans wouldnt know about like, the LA Riots or whatever, not to mention actual massacres further back in the US's past.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            No one remembers the anti-globalization protests of the 90s and that was like 20 years ago. Tiananmen was what, 30 years ago?

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Not only have they not heard of it, but the ones who have unironically think it was based. I remember seeing a poll taken after it happened and most people were in favor of it lmao

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's also really easy if you're in mainland China to set your Steam region to Hong Kong or Taiwan and get censored stuff.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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        3 years ago

        I know steam China has doesn't have access to the full catalog and some games have sections removed. But piracy was super common while I was there so you could still get your hands on anything you wanted and I didn't know a single person who was worried about repercussions. Same deal with movies, things might not release in theaters but if you wanted it it was fairly easy to get.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Do they know about the Tienanmen Square events though?

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        3 years ago

        I talked to a Chinese guy (he was living abroad so maybe biased view) who said they talked about it briefly in school and the teacher could tell you more if you came after class. tbh it is almost like 50 years ago now so I don't know why people expect them to act like it was Chinese 9/11, it doesn't really matter that much to people anymore.

      • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Sure. They see it as the government defending them from dangerous radicals who had no idea what they were going to do once they got control of the country. How were they planning on feeding, clothing, caring for a billion people? Nobody bothered to say.

        They also spoke for nobody but themselves. They were university students, not from the people.

        "The students are nuts if they think this handful of people can overthrow our Party and our government."

        -- Wang Zhen, Chinese Communist official, May 1989

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          How will we solve it? Freedom and democracy! When will we solve it? After we sell off our public infrastructure to Exxon and GE!

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Bullshit. It's openly taught and discussed as the "June 4th Event". They might censor the Western narrative but that's different.

          My Tiananmen take.

          • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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            3 years ago

            Reading some of the other comments on this it seems like I may have been misinformed or at least ended up with a fairly warped view of the information available.

              • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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                3 years ago

                Because I lived there and talked to college students there. All of them told me they had never heard about it. Two of them went looking for information after we talked about it and told me they couldn't find anything at all. So I'm not sure what the reality is but that's where I got my info.

                • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Could just be a phrasing thing, the west calls it the tiananmen square massacre and I think they call it the June 4th protest? Kinda like asking a random American if they remember the Fatherland Liberation War and them not being able to come up with anything after a cursory search because we just call it "the Korean war" here.

                    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      It's definitely a bigger part of American curriculum, mainly because on America it's taught as a massacre by a heartless communist government and the tank man hero that stood up to authoritarian socialism.

                      The actual history is a lot more boring, there's tons of leadup, lots of different players, a slow burn, and a brief explosion of violence that subsides pretty rapidly. It's much more memorable when stripped of context and presented in easily digestible scenes (a poster of tankman is literally on every history teacher's wall).

                      If you want a good example of negative censorship, look on YouTube for the full uncut video of tankman. It's impossible to find through search and all the results are western talking heads giving commentary on cropped/cut footage.

                      If you watch the whole thing, you see that the tanks were actually leaving the square when he stopped them and not entering it. It's also kinda crazy how the whole narrative around the event is that they used tanks to run over protestors until they were pulp, but they refuse to run over this guy.

                      I'm convinced the reason this example is pushed so hard as "resistance to power" in America is that it creates a bunch of people with a death drive. Like fuck no, standing in front of an armored vehicle is dumb as hell! If you want to make a point, flank it and throw something in the hatch. Convincing a bunch of people that standing in front of military hardware is resistance is how you get Kent State. Or the dozens of instances of cops mowing down protestors during the BLM protests.

                  • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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                    3 years ago

                    I took a couple classes (in english) on China's ancient history and that was cool as fuck but I know nothing about how modern history is taught.

            • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              There is just so much propaganda out there. We all absorb some of it. It takes a while to deprogram, comrade.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          ok that is totalitarian, they need to respect rule of law

          For real though? I understand why they'd do it (I just wanted Nike shoe) but lol

    • cokedupchavez [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      fr? guy do you have like an english version of chinas history textbook? there was a post about a dprk history textbook floating. i'd like to see what they learn in high school