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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 10 months ago by 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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[–] 3 points 10 months ago

I really dig that they often "show their receipts"and I'll always take someone with citations more seriously than those without. I think it's prudent to be even more sceptical of those replies, though, as it's far more likely they have an agenda. That agenda might be as benign as educating others (it's often why I cite), but it's still best to think critically about the context, text, and subtext of their narrative.

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