TianAnMen 1989
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Anatomy of a Colour Revolution

Good thing I’m not deepseek: here is an accessible and brief breakdown of that dangerous historical moment which in many ways decided the future for the entire world.

Follow and share this new substack!!! (My medium account was taken down without explanation by the imperialist censorship machine)

https://goodsresearch.substack.com/p/tiananmen-1989-anatomy-of-a-colour

And maybe this is the calculation of CPC behind Deepseek’s avoidance of pilitical topics:

  1. Facts don’t matter, and reason is useless against Western chauvinism, because for those who grew up with a supremacist world view for 20 generations it is a matter of pure emotion.

  2. It is better to enable Westerners to preserve their illusions of “Chinese authoritarianism” and “Western freedom”, to stoke Western hubris, for as long as possible before they become totally untennable; because illusions and hubris are sedatives.

  3. The opinions of citizens of the imperialist sphere are not important.

  4. The highest priority in this era is to prevent war, in which case multipolarity, anti-imperialism, and the global South wins. If prevention fails, war will likely lead to devastating defeat for both sides, for all of humanity.

  5. Thus the optimum, least risk-prone procedure is not to inflame anti-communist emotions and provoke imperialist passions with Chinese AI giving factual perspectives which will cause heated online debates between East and West — The East knows the truth, and that’s enough for now.

    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.socialEnglish
      351·
      3 days ago

      Or kent state.

      Or what the civil war was actually about.

      Or when all those statues of traitors showed up.

      Or why all those statues of traitors showed up.

      Or how mlk jr felt about communism.

      Or how the government actively targeted and killed domestic political opponents for years.

      Or how the government performed experiments on unwilling citizens again, for years.

      Or…

      Eta: at this point I assume there’s a lot more to it than what I’ve been taught. I also assume that the simplistic understanding that was conveyed to me was done intentionally to color my opinion of China because “scary communists.”

      • JDPONDON [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        out of curiosity, why are you on midwest? the admin is still ultimately an anticommunist despite their uh “tankie” opinions (iirc the whole incident where .world and the other blue maga i.e. fascist instances ganged up on him and called him an ebil tankie?)

        like seriously, midwest has de-federated from barely anyone beides actual fascists (also feddit.nl, wtf happened there? hexbear has never even defeded from .nl and the admins have been pretty quick to defederate in the lat couple of years)

        sorry if you were unaware of any of this, just your instance and dbzero’s defed of grad left me expecting a relatively soon defederation of hexbear and yet it still has yet to happen

        • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I started on kbin, and I’m Midwestern, so after leaving kbin, I decided on this one because it appealed to my sensibilities.

          Our admin has been vehemently antifascist, to the point it really rustles some jimmies on world etc.

          I asked about grad defed because that happened before I joined, apparently it was issues with brigading, not anything else. If we were to defed from hex and ml for some ideological reason it would be extremely surprising to me. I would also probably move over then.

          There’s a lot of insane brain worms on these larger instances. I feel like being able to say “if you’re an actual leftist, you will find friends on hexbear” is a valuable counter to some of these obsessive weirdos.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s more like if “Bush did 9/11” theories were dialed up to 11 and were the canonized orthodox truth for every other major power and they all kept funding propaganda pieces and doing social media astroturfing about how the US government sent in the military to shell their own people because NYC voted against Bush so he wanted to chastise them for their disloyalty. That would quickly go from “conspiracy theory that gets someone blackballed in corporate media” to “the US government starts criminalizing making those claims and everyone just preemptively avoids talking about anything to do with it because it’s a sensitive topic due to the astroturfed conspiracy theories.”

      Because that’s basically what the western conspiracy theories about Tienanmen Square are: a ludicrous rewriting of what actually happened that’s grown bigger and more absurd with every retelling, which gets institutionally pushed as propaganda to try to undermine and agitate against China. The end result is that even though people in China are taught about it, the topic itself gets shut down in public discourse because it is specifically this high profile disinformation target.