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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

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[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The megathread referenced by OP: https://hexbear.net/post/7145452

[–] stinky@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for linking this

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Where's the part where people are making funny quotes about Tiny Man and stuff? I've been scrolling through the thread to see what you were talking about and haven't found it yet.

Edit: I just searched for the tiny man square part of your quote and this post is the only thing that comes up.