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The redditor "Tienanmen Square massacre" narrative is flat earther levels of crank shit and needs to be recognized as such. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the "10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter" bs are cranks. It's jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn't real level of crank shit and unless you're feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

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[-] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 5 months ago

I've seen youtube comment sections where the full video is shown and people are like "ah, but the people who shooed him away from the tank were actually see see pee secret police in disguise".

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago

think-about-it no stronger evidence than the complete absence of evidence.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Weren't they his friends or something?

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

We know basically nothing about him or the other civilians involved from what I understand.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

I know that guy used that story to get laid for years after

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

https://www.theonion.com/chinese-guy-still-insisting-it-was-him-in-front-of-that-1819586931

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

freedom-and-democracy

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, afaik Tank Man has never been identified.

I wish I could speak Chinese because I'd love to know what Baidu think's about the annual Western June 4th Freakout.

[-] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah, afaik Tank Man has never been identified.

Yep. PBS Frontline did an entire episode on the great mystery of "what happened to Tank Man" replete with cringe liberalisms like "what happened to the hOpE fOr dEmOcRaCy in China?!?" and how he "stood for the ordinary people!"

[-] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure. I thought they were random concerned bystanders. Regardless, libs jump to the least charitable interpretation whenever the subject is [insert bad country here].