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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So choosing to stop believing western propaganda rags and CIA psyops to answer your question

Comon, at least put some effort into your liberal trolling, I even put in "to answer your question" right there ha ha!

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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?

How exactly does "So choosing to stop believing western propaganda rags and CIA psyops to answer your question" answer any of these three questions? Like it's ridiculous to think that {rejecting CIA propaganda} => {immortal science of Marxism-Leninism}, i.e. people can and do reasonably disagree with Marxist-Leninists and other state socialists out of an organic theoretical and practical desire to do things differently.

Also, western leftists have a problem swallowing CIA and pro-Western propaganda (myself included, something I'm trying to unlearn) — including western "tankies".

liberal trolling

Go through my comment history. 95% of my comment history is screaming at liberals for being fucking liberals 😮‍💨

Sorry if I'm being curt but you came into our space and started being a jerk to people, and now you're all surprised Pikachu face that we're being less than polite back. If you want to actually have a productive discussion then great, but you're just not doing that right now.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

They corrected you and you didn't even address it, you're losing