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The Myth of Tiananmen
- stuqqq 7y agoIf nothing happened, why censor it like crazy?
- yasp 7y agoFrom TFA: Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances. The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.
- stuqqq 7y agoAgain, why censor it? What are they afraid of? They disallowed people to change their avatar that day on social network, because it had been used as a way to remember it. This is what people ended up doing https://cdn.wenxuecity.com/data/news/201906/04/7b746f45acaa1092817a978db90b782f.jpg https://cdn.wenxuecity.com/data/news/201906/04/7b746f45acaa1... I like the saying that the more clean a country’s newspapers are, the dirtier that country is.
- bifrost 7y agoThis smells like propaganda...
- vkaku 7y agoThis does not pass the smell test. Definitely propaganda.
- yasp 7y agoSomeone should tell the Washington Post that they've had a Chinese propagandist on their payroll for at least two decades. Their first Beijing bureau chief, no less. Assuming the CJR piece doesn't lie about his bio.
- stuqqq 7y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/chinese-newspaper-cites-wikileaks-tiananmen-massacre-a-myth/2011/07/14/gIQAhF1MEI_blog.html?utm_term=.5a2cc4c2b121&noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/chinese-n...
- yasp 7y agoIt's unfortunate that China's state-run media turned it into actual propaganda. What point are you trying to make?