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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They answered your question with an implied "yes" and provided relevant additional context by saying that so are all the other states. Their answer would only count as avoiding the question if you had asked something like "Is X more authoritarian than Y?" instead.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, like:

"Are Nazis bad people?"

"All people are bad"

LMAO

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 23 hours ago

Would you have been satisfied if Jabril said "Yes, every state is authoritarian" instead? What was Jabril supposed to say?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

wut

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago

That's ok, you'll get your social credit points nonetheless.