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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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny how you run interference for bigots like that.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I'm not? Like I said, I support the LGBTQIA+ movements in China and Palestine. What I don't support is looking at social progression like it's a static, unmoving phenomenon intrinsic to Palestinians or Chinese people, or socialism. Try listening to what queer Palestinians and Chinese citizens are saying. They certainly aren't saying "I support the IDF over Hamas" or "overthrow the CPC!" Using Cuba as an example, they went from socially reactionary positions to passing one of the world's most progressive family codes precisely because of the emancipatory nature of Marxism-Leninism.