Today's the 31 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. Feels particularly relevant today with what's going on in the US. IMHO, American media coverage of this event is totally biased in favor of the protestors. Don't really know what happened,
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but the fact that many people died is horrible. This said, notwithstanding censorship and alleged human rights issues, the PRC delivered BIG TIME economically to their people after '89. Great song from one of the leaders of the protest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwsPt854Xo …
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
That's pretty bad take. It's almost as bad as someone trying to defend Derek Chauvin now.
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Replying to @cowboyInNY
Point taken. Im pretty contrarian and don’t love how we romanticize Tiananmen Square protests, but minimize our own. I don’t know what happened (who does? You probably know better than I do), but still hard to argue with prcs transformation lead by Deng.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Nobody "delivered" anything to Chinese people. Chinese people worked hard and earned everything. They actually deserve much more.
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Replying to @cowboyInNY
Agreed but hard to take the totally messed up communist system and the mentalities that come with it and turn that around. I have a lot respect for Deng. He was exiled by Mao and put under house arrest iirc. Look at how Russia did in comparison. Disaster.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @cowboyInNY
Kind of off topic but I think you told me about Li Lu and his role in the protests? I don’t want to put words in your mouth but there’s a lot of stuff like that that affects my view of American portrayal of Tiananmen.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
I know. Also people like me are too chicken to speak out even now. That's the most profound effect that event had on China and Chinese. Most of us gave up.
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I talk a lot of shit. I'm afraid to talk shit about China given that I go over there. That's real trouble.
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