• YuccaMan [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    You’d have a point there, if there wasn’t ample photographic evidence which also suggests that no concerted massacre took place, in the square or elsewhere. All available photographic evidence that I’ve seen supports the Chinese government’s version of events: scattered street clashes which unfortunately featured some quite heavy duty violence, but no mass formation of tanks coming in and deliberately schwacking everybody in sight.

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      1 year ago

      You make convincing arguments, and I’m sure you are correct to some degree. I do not believe that the dramatized events suggested by the west are accurate. But, I still think it was a disgusting waste of life that could potentially be described as a massacre.

      • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        If you want to find it more, I often recommend the documentary “the gate of heavenly Peace” which you can find on YouTube. If you want to understand a bit of it’s perspective before watching check the reception/controversy section on its Wikipedia page

      • YuccaMan [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        It wasn’t nice, to be sure. The workers’ protests which happened concurrently with the events of Tiananmen Square were reportedly the source of much of the violence, and it got properly nasty at times. The two events are often conflated though, and I felt it important to draw that distinction. Anyhow, I appreciate your open-mindedness.

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          1 year ago

          Thanks for the thoughtful discussion and I’ll be reading more. I wanted to say I appreciate your detailed reply to my link of violent pictures that was taken down earlier. I was genuinely curious how others viewed that evidence. I can still read your comment in my inbox and will investigate further.

          • YuccaMan [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            Reactions like yours are why I still bother. All I ever want is for people to look at popular historical and political narratives critically. I apologize if I came off as hostile at all, we get a lot of calumny coming our way, as you might imagine.