whoops no this is UC Davis in 2011. the cop pepper spraying these nonviolent student protestors filed for worker's compensation claiming "psychiatric damage" due to having his name released and won more than $38k USD in compensation.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    Although the uprising is still taboo in China, everyone who was there on the square remembers. At the end of Beijing Coma, the protagonist Dai Wei recalls returning to the place where, a few hours before, his friend had been mown down by a tank. He remembers seeing her flattened corpse in the distance and noticing that: “As if refusing to be crushed, the flesh and bones had risen a fraction from the tarmac.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/30/ma-jian-tiananmen-square-remembered

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        So is Gulag Archipelago, doesn't stop libs treating Solzhenitsyn's drivel like it's holy scripture

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      11 months ago

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

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      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.