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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days 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 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 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 2 days ago (6 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 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uh huh, sure buddy

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days 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 0 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days 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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