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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)
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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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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 week 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