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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, one of the twenty-odd links isn’t from a Western source? Must be a foreign secret agent!

Deeply unserious.

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No they are sourcing a Chinese tabloid which is governed by China to prove that China did not do something, while every other country's reporting, including Chinese historians interviewed, says it is happening. This is the only link I checked to see if it was worth looking over the rest. I am using the most likely conclusion that either they did not care to see the source was from a Chinese tabloid because it confirmed what they already believed, or they are a foreign agent, which have been confirmed to exist on every social media platform. You should be wary I am one too. Either way it's not worth anyone's time.