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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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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[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 16 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Yes, a country that 70 years ago was feudal has some backwards social policy. Is that an own?

The difference betweent China and the west in this regard, is that social justice victories in China are not constantly threatened by right wing parties and far-right Nazis.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Cope harder buddy, nobody buys that shite except you lot.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

If nobody believes that China is rapidly improving living conditions for the working class why do Chinese people love their country so much?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The existence of patriots is evidence of improving working conditions now? Daym, USA must be the best country in the world.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not that people who love China exist at all, it's the fact that they're 90% of the population.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh, sure buddy

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing.

From https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Color revolutions" when facts don't match the narrative, impeccable trust when they do. So it goes...

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cope harder buddy, nobody buys that shite except you lot.

this was your claim. That's what I was responding to. Nothing about color revolutions or whatever you're on about now.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't see how your link addresses my reply about LGBT-repression cope but ok.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I replied to that specific part elsewhere, and you got a reply from Cowbee that I think was better than mine.

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