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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus 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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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Go read "on practice" and "on contradiction" by mao zedong. Hilarious conjecturing based purely on vibes, nothing to back anything up. The fact that you're waxing on about tankies getting radicalised by ignoring data while ignoring every "tankie" telling their story about radicalisation in this very thread and not presenting anything to back up your steep claims makes it pure comedy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

They really keep doing this and then wonder why no one likes their tired repeated points.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

More data for you to ignore I guess lmfao

they are not doing ordinary source criticism that checks documents, reconciles contradictions, and updates beliefs under constraint.

absolutely no self awareness bud

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Award for least self-aware lib of 2025 goes toooo....... It was a hotly contested category folks but TropicalDingdong was able to snatch it with seconds to spare