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 :)

  • Natanael
    231·
    2 days ago

    Tribalism

    They opposed one tribe so they joined another

    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
      2·
      12 hours ago

      You can see it plainly when the defense comes up as “well your country lied about the one i like”

      My dudes, they are both awful and both kill for sport and are horribly racist. That’s how they have such power to begin with.

      This isnt sports. You can hate them both.