In america, more than 60 protesters have been run over this year but people will send the tank man image to chinese people, thinking it will deprogram them and make them hate china

    • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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      a reverse image search says that specific image is from a 2009 blogger who was shown this image on a train in 2007 by an apparent family member of a soldier there that day. as far as i can tell the only people reporting that image is French state media. I don't want to downplay anything, at least hundreds died in that bloody conflict, but you still need to be careful of misinformation

    • DonCheadleInTheWH [any]
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      4 years ago

      Here you go - a full gallery of photos including charred corpses, piles of dead bodies, and bikes and bodies that have been rolled over by tanks

      • Grace [she/her]
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        The Tianenmen bastards lit UNARMED soldiers on fire and killed them. The military was a lot more restrictive than the media portrays. You wonder why a Hong Kong protester was never killed by a soldier? China learns from their past, America does not.

        • DonCheadleInTheWH [any]
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          lol this community exalts every police murder, I'm glad the protesters fighting back somehow absolves the state military forces from whatever unhinged violence erupted in the standoff

          and sure, china doesn't murder people, they just disappear them and magically they're making public addresses three months later talking about how grateful they are to the benevolent leadership of the ccp

          have you read 1984?

      • JudgeJuche [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Many of the photographs in that album depict the PLA vehicles and soldiers that were torched by violent rebels, but I saw no piles of bodies as you described.

          • JudgeJuche [he/him]
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            That's from a different site, but okay. I see four bodies in the photo (not squished by tanks), and it's not clear where they're located. The Chinese narrative is that ~200 were killed amidst violent clashes that week outside the square, so I would expect there to be some level of carnage left behind to photograph. I'm not denying that it's tragic, but does this debunk anything? What is my takeaway supposed to be?

            • DonCheadleInTheWH [any]
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              As my original assertion, the title of this post white-washes and reduces the Tiananmen Square Massacre to "apparently this one guy survived", while ignoring the 200 killed but glorifying the 60 victims in the BLM scene. Just typical tankie revisionism.