After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying “99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in ‘Tiny Man Square’ […] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda […],” I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn’t change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.
I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.
Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?
Yeah, this is spot on.
It’s all about playing into the bias of psychology and controlling the narrative. Truth is to be ignored, and everything/everyone is to be subordinated to the ‘cause’, which is usually a form of idealism wherein the ends justify the means, no matter how awful the consequences of the means would be.
Hence the ‘killing a few million folks is necessary for the ‘freedom’ of 100 million’ types of rationalizations.