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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

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Additional reading:

The Myth of Tiananmen published by the Graduate School of Journalism at the Ivy League Columbia University

BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (29 children)

My view on this is evolving but it still doesn't sit right with me.

Let's say nobody died, it wasn't a massacre. Those are all flattened bicycles and scared people on the ground. This is still the state sending the military to put down a protest. Those are tanks from the national government designed for defense against state level enemies, directed at unarmed young adults from the same country right?

What would've happened had people not dispersed? Were the tanks and guns just to scare people? What would you think of Biden or Trump calling our military to put down protests like what happened in summer of 2020 in the U.S.?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imho this is an entirely valid view to have.

The military being used the crush a protest doesn't sit right with me either, regardless of who's doing it and whether or not people died.

That said, I do not buy the western™ narrative on Tiananmen Square in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This person should watch The Gate of Heavenly Peace, and honestly a lot of Hexbears probably need to see it too.

It's not that the documentary is "correct" in everything that it says, but it's thorough at over 3 hours long, and had plenty of criticism from "both sides" (yeah, I'm an enlightened centrist :D)

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