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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989 (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My understanding of the ML-version of events is that there were different protests happening at the same time. One was led by the students but there were others led by farmers, workers, etc in the same vicinity. The students are depicted as generally Marxist while the workers were asking for liberal reforms and they were the ones that got massacred.

Not that that the notion of two protests (instead of one protest with multiple groups) has any relation to reality, but... holy fucking shit, how would that be better?

Without an independent media on the ground it is hard for me to know what’s what though.

There was independent media on the ground at the time. There are numerous eyewitnesses. There is ample photographic evidence.

Point is, this image doesn’t contradict with the ML-version of events.

The ML version of events that you presented, which, what, swaps out a massacre of student protesters for a massacre of workers?

The People's Tank Treads.

[–] JC1@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

🤣 Exactly what I was asking myself. If their justification is "this group wasn't massacred, this group was instead", how the fuck is that better? I never understand how people can be so willing in justifying authoritarian regimes and massacres...