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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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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Simple answer: The things you think you know aren’t the truth. They’re just propaganda.

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I saw some comments suggesting Mao had a lot to teach us. ~~Hopefully it goes beyond killing everyone who wears glasses.~~ different guy! Pol Pot only killed a million or two.

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

Anarchists vs knowing who and what they are talking about (gone wrong) (gone sexual) /s

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I don't think I'm an anarchist, but I made an honest mixup.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some people’s needs aren’t being met in the west or they’re rightfully upset of the mistreatment of the global south so they decide to become contrarian to oppose the western oligarchs and politicians.

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