Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right?

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So the west is still hunting communists to this day? Easier than fixing climate or providing healthcare I guess.

Care to explain what was communist in the event except the name of the party that enacted the massacre and maybe some of the people who died?

I wonder why an event that happened almost before I was born is so important to some people here. Why aren't we showcasing how monstrous Hitler was burning people for racism then? That's far more fitting to the situation of most western countries that are all leaning on fascism and racism. Some western countries like France are not far from crushing protestors with tanks btw.

But I guess the cold war world of 40 years ago is more comfortable. There was this nice black and white taint where capitalists were the good guys against evil communists. And we must now bring back all the sins of China and USSR to never forget what they did, so can be blind to what's happening now I guess.

People throwing "tankies" everywhere are worth no more than any Russian troll honestly.

You didn’t answer my question.

To answer yours, maybe it’s because Germany has literal museums dedicated to education about the horrors of its past while China tries to hide them and has that same party in power. That’s slightly different.

Also don’t fool yourself. The Cold War was capitalists against capitalists that called themselves communists. Real communism never existed for more than a week in any country in the world.

He. If you want to criticise China you should talk about ouïghours or Hong Kong. Tiananmen is irrelevant. It's as relevant as slavery in the US. Aren't you busy killing black people these days btw?

Definitely not as relevant since you can talk about slavery and it’s widely condemned (by the ruling party, at least).

I’m also not American, but nice try.

I don't care where you live. You're not Chinese yet you care about tiananmen apparently. But you don't care about slavery in the US apparently. Nor about fascism eventhough it's making a comeback in all western countries.

Which proves my point: tiananmen is not about China. It's a symbol of communist oppression. And a Godwin point to end any discussion about communism. And a liberal fuck you to all leftists and communists of lemmy. There's a reason I've never read "tankie" before I read lemmy.

I care about slavery and I care about fascism. Am I not allowed to care about those things and at the same time about the fact that the second-most populated country in the world is a literal dictatorship?

Again, there was nothing communist about Tiananmen, nor there is anything communist about the current CCP. It’s just fascism under a different name. Invent a time machine and bring back Marx to see this shit, he definitely wouldn’t be happy about it.

If Hitler or his party was still around and denying the Holocaust that that would be a comparable analogy. But it's not, so it isn't.

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Obvious troll is obvious.

The troll is the OP posting this picture if you ask me.

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