• 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.

      • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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        I don’t think it’s pathetic to combat misinformation that you’re spreading, without even having the decency to provide evidence backing your claims up. You have a knee-jerk reaction to deny anything that disagrees with your internal narrative.

        Claim A: 10,000 people were killed in Tian’anmen Square on June 4th, 1989

        Claim B, Part 1: No, nobody died in Tian’anmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

        Claim B, Part 2: Hundreds of people died around Beijing on June 4th, 1989, including dozens of PLA officers lynched and firebombed, as well as hundreds of rioters.

        Both parts of Claim B are intrinsically tied together, but you read it as distinct claims made by different people to justify your absurd claims.