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This is literally just the same kind of shit with anonymous claims and no sources, we have photos from the square right the morning after with no signs of such a large scale massacre, do you believe the Chinese have some unnatural power to clean up the square and ensure no photographic evidence of the massacre actually exists?

I am begging you to go to Beijing and ask people what they think of the June 4 incident.

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not only do you not read our links, you don't even read your own. embarrassing.

Although the uprising is still taboo in China

No it's not. No one cares and folks don't understand why Americans are obsessed with it.

Nah, it just comes up a lot. No worries

having sources is astroturfing, not having sources is evidence of being correct. of course.

Can you explain what is the difference between astroturfing and providing sources and evidence?

Jesus christ. I wish you were a bot. Bots actually have an excuse for being unable to exceed their programming.

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Not everyone takes Western medias depiction of things as fact, I mean if you werent a complete dipshit the least you could do is try to composite a narrative from Chinese and Western sources instead of taking the #1 Geopolitical enemies word for it and countless other things it has lied about.

You've seen first hand how shitty American government and it's goons are to it's own people why do you think they wouldn't lie about their main adversary?

Tinyman Squirrel noooooo

Babybrain

No, but we do have reading groups, encourage each other to expand our knowledge, and post useful and interesting links to each other if they're interested. You know, like most people do, like a community does.

Also: imagine being proud deliberate ignorance.

Even if a corporation paid for that, a list of links would still not qualify as astroturfing

Wtf this is literally George Foreman 1989

I thought you were gonna link to a source but instead you're linking slam poetry you absolute bozo

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You should ask yourself the following question: Why does Tiananmen Square keep getting dragged up by western media, and meanwhile we never hear anything about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

Try to think of a reason why.

(And no, the answer is not "well ackshullly South Korea is a fReE dEmOcRaCY now so it doesn't matter")

responding to the Columbia Journalism Review article (by the WaPo's Beijing bureau chief who was in the square) with an unsourced tone poem inspired by Jorjor Well, you don't look like a shit-eating clown at all

The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/