• painting a picture of us as claiming nobody died at all on June 4th

    People are actually constantly claiming this on this platform. You’re again being disingenuous by claiming otherwise or have your eyes closed.

    The whole “tank man wasn’t murdered” talking point is a pathetic attempt to deny the entire incident by re-focusing the incident on tank man and completely ignoring the events which lead up to it.

    • You’re entirely wrong. People say that nobody died in Tian’anmen Square, which is true, even the ever-biased Wikipedia agrees that dispersal of the square was peaceful. You’re reading people denying the western myth of tanks running over 10,000 people on the square itself as denying any killings by the PLA on June 4th,1989. Post evidence of the claims you believe exist, or stop with your historical denialism.

      The whole “tank man wasn’t murdered” thing is a pathetic attempt to deny the entire incident by re-focusing the incident on tank man and completely ignoring the events which lead up to it.

      No, it’s to point out how the west teaches a mythologized version of events by focusing on one of its most iconic moments, and showing that it doesn’t at all align with the western version of events. If anything, communists are the ones that actually know what the protests were about in the month leading up to it in April and May, CIA involvement with the student leaders through Operation Yellowbird, and so forth, because whenever we claim to support the PRC anti-communists inevitably wield the mythologized version of events like a club against us, which we have to dispel over and over again.