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It's amazing the dogged persistence of the west in digging up events from more than 20 years ago and trying to carve the narrative of Chinese history of 1 billi
by narrator 13y ago
It's amazing the dogged persistence of the west in digging up events from more than 20 years ago and trying to carve the narrative of Chinese history of 1 billion people over the last 30 years around this event that lasted maybe two weeks and involved a few thousand. Think of the billions of people, their lives changing, the greatest mass migration in history to the cities, the greatest uplift in economic standards of people in world history and all that matters is this one event. The issue here is focus. What events are picked out of the trillions and magnified to encompass the whole expanse of our understanding about a particular topic and which ones are completely ignored yet hugely significant to people's lives?
- blake8086 13y agoBut the PRC is still censoring it, right?
- narrator 13y agoAnd the west is still endlessly editorializing about it. Excessive repetition is a kind of intellectual violence.
- kps 13y agoI can understand how it must hurt to get run over by an intellectual tank.
- sageikosa 13y agoSince "the west" isn't a secret cabal, but rather a generally broad and open concensus opinion; I'd say that "their" editorializing on the actions of a secretive cabal to suppress information is rightfully poignant.
- ghshephard 13y agoIf the PRC didn't go to so much effort to censor this event (which was, beyond just the human cost, a very pivotal moment in authoritarian china development), it would likely get less attention. Streisand effect, writ large.