• ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10410·
    18 hours ago

    Funny, just yesterday I had an .ml insisting to me that the protests ended peacefully and that any hint of violence is western propaganda.

    Edit: just had another one saying the same crap but the mods nuked it.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      There was a reddit post of pictures of the massacre that were very detailed and graphic. Came out a few years ago. These were never before seen pictures that the redditor had kept for years and decided to release them. I wish I had had the for thought to save them cause I can’t find that post again at all. Only things there now are the same pics you see everywhere else.

      I have to say though, it is amazingly annoying that nearly any search for Tiananmen Square usually just returns the “tank man” pictures, as if that’s all there was to it.

      • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        It’s very likely that I saw a repost, but I also remember that imagery on Reddit too, so you aren’t alone (on Lemmy at least) in coming across that post. Wish I had a link or something to help you find it.

        I’ve never really given any credibility to the Tiananmen Square denials but that post cemented any possible doubt I could have had.

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I hate putting this tin hat on but I think that reddit admin obliterated it. They went public and deleted a lot of content that would not make certain governments happy.

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      592·
      2 days ago

      These are disproved very fast by the fact that the chinese government doesnt want you to talk about it. Governments dont usually create whole censor campaigns around things that never happened. And before you say us this and us that, the us is also trying to cober things up and we also know a lot of those things because they get leaked. Talking about the us is a classic tankie move because it diverts your attention from the actual thing you were talking about, china. Just move to europe if you can and help in making a place that isnt an absolute shithole because sadly, currently europe is getting really close to that status.