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I don't know if I would have used Tiananmen Square.
The Uighur re-education cities seems far more fitting.
Or the invasion of Vietnam... Or the annexation of Tibet... Or the bullying of Southeast Asian countries... Or the great leap forward... Or the communist land reforms... Or the anti counterrevolutionary campaigns
The CCP leaves you no end of really good options to pick here.
If these "cities" exist which are claimed to have imprisoned millions of people where are the photos?
Do you realize how much physical space that many people takes up in addition to supplying them?
Yeah tiananmen is such a meme at this point. You can tell when people base their entire politics on memes and don't bother reading and searching on their own. Tiananmen is an issue they won't step mentioning.
I think the other comment on this thread addressed it pretty well: https://hexbear.net/comment/4003110
I'm pretty skeptical about taking political positions from memes, and when I've done my own research on this, I failed to find valid reasons that this issue should get the attention that the Internet gives it. There are many other issues that are worth my attention. This one isn't.
Plenty of sources provided in there (ny times, reuters, etc), but if you were the kind to examine evidence, you wouldn't be here anyways.
I love how you ignored everything in the article except what could possibly agree with your viewpoint. On your first quote, the link they cite does not exist anymore. In the video you linked, I hear gunshots but don't see people running away from them. As someone from a country that saw unrest and shooting at protests, I can tell you that people immediately start running when they're shot at, emptying the area. Not continue to March nonchalantly.
In the end, I want to conclude with saying that I didn't deny that anyone died (although the comment I linked does seem to imply that. My apologies for not clarifying, as I was only using them to back up my opinion). What I said in the original comment is that it is not an issue worth my attention. I've seen and read about so many government rerpression, and this is far from being in the top 10. It's an unnecessarily magnified issue.
Not even going to click on that, the domain tells me everything I need to know considering the topic we talk about!
I mean, it's a variety of sourced quotes from respected journalists who were there. You probably should read them all, if only so you can point out to the Hexbears where they mention all the people who died in the area around the Square. The sources mostly say "no one got gunned down literally in the Square."
In any case, it's fucking weird to obsess over it. It's like trying to give Biden crap about the Kent State Massacre while he's rounding up all the Mormons.
Plenty of evidence cited there from multiple sources. You don't have to open it, but the evidence is there shall you question it.
Abother user made a very good comment about this under my post, might be worth checking out!
I agree with that commenter. I do not claim that "nothing happened". I said this in my earlier comments, that I just don't think it's a problem worth my attention.
Sounds like a full blown insurrection.
I knew this was going to be the only one people tried to deny in this thread, but I didn't figure it would be OP