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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those people don’t exist. You’re making things up.

Here is the comment that another poster originally made, and is the originating comment of this argument, and the position you have been defending this entire time. "Those people don't exist. You're making things up." Do I need to quote it for you a third time? You clarified after being forced to. Stop trying to sanitize your behavior and own up to it.

Anyway, as for the rest of your comment...

Are you just being dumb or? Do you not see how you just said "we like this thing, but we don't like the same thing phrased in a slightly different way"

Nice one, dawg. You lost. GG.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the context of OP talking about a specific group of people that don't measure up to what that commenter stated? No, they don't exist, and they did make it up. The subject of the OP is not something that their comment applies to.

Nice one, dawg. You lost. GG.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol good try champ

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago

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