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How much longer does China plan to keep this event taboo?

by SimeVidas 5y ago

sneak 5y ago
My guess would be until everyone who cares about it dies. He who controls the present, controls the past.
- howaboutnope 5y ago
  > Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. The assertion that the Moscow subway is the only one in the world is a lie only so long as the Bolsheviks have not the power to destroy all the others. In other words, the method of infallible prediction, more than any other totalitarian propaganda device, betrays its ultimate goal of world conquest, since only in a world completely under his control could the totalitarian ruler possibly realize all his lies and make true all his prophecies. -- Hannah Arendt, "Origins of Totalitarianism"
pcurve 5y ago
probably until the current communist party loses its grip. Currently, it's sort of a federated dictatorship. They see what S.Korea has gone through in being a full democracy, taking lessons from it to ensure it doesn't happen there. S.Korea is a free society now, but even as a 40 something guy, I remember days of militaristic regime holdovers from quasi dictatorship of the past. You couldn't criticize the president, the press was closely monitored, no one dare expose rampant corruption and collusion of big business and prosecution office. I remember my neighbor skipping classes to demonstrate against the government, throwing Molotov cocktails. Some people got whisked away and put into labor camp, not to be seen again for months or not make it out alive. Where is China on the timeline? They're probably currently at where Korea was in early 1970s. But they also know that the timeline now is far more compressed in modern society and change could happen much quicker. All the the actions you're seeing from China, is done out of fear of losing grip.
clydethefrog 5y ago
It took around 80 years before the Tulsa race massacre was officialy studied by the Oklahoma legislature.

How much longer does China plan to keep this event taboo?

sneak 5y ago

My guess would be until everyone who cares about it dies. He who controls the present, controls the past.

howaboutnope 5y ago
> Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. The assertion that the Moscow subway is the only one in the world is a lie only so long as the Bolsheviks have not the power to destroy all the others. In other words, the method of infallible prediction, more than any other totalitarian propaganda device, betrays its ultimate goal of world conquest, since only in a world completely under his control could the totalitarian ruler possibly realize all his lies and make true all his prophecies. -- Hannah Arendt, "Origins of Totalitarianism"

pcurve 5y ago

probably until the current communist party loses its grip. Currently, it's sort of a federated dictatorship. They see what S.Korea has gone through in being a full democracy, taking lessons from it to ensure it doesn't happen there. S.Korea is a free society now, but even as a 40 something guy, I remember days of militaristic regime holdovers from quasi dictatorship of the past. You couldn't criticize the president, the press was closely monitored, no one dare expose rampant corruption and collusion of big business and prosecution office. I remember my neighbor skipping classes to demonstrate against the government, throwing Molotov cocktails. Some people got whisked away and put into labor camp, not to be seen again for months or not make it out alive. Where is China on the timeline? They're probably currently at where Korea was in early 1970s. But they also know that the timeline now is far more compressed in modern society and change could happen much quicker. All the the actions you're seeing from China, is done out of fear of losing grip.

clydethefrog 5y ago

It took around 80 years before the Tulsa race massacre was officialy studied by the Oklahoma legislature.