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 :)
You say this, but I bet you and almost everyone here support the Allies during WWII even though most of the Allies had colonial empires and had already committed multiple genocides to build those empires. I do not think people here would seriously think that the principled socialist position is to hold “neither Berlin nor Moscow nor London” signs while the Blitz was happening or to hide in a cave while the Nazis were exterminating people in death camps because the British were also starving Bengalis to death.
States should not exist. Dont know what this rant wants to project but thats what I think, full stop.
So you support neither the Allies nor the Axis during WWII because both sides comprise of state actors? Non-state actors didn’t exist in any meaningful capacity during WWII. Even partisans and underground resistance groups were affiliated with the Allies.
What does this have to do with the discussion in the post? This is just whataboutism.
No, it’s asking you to apply your theory to practice. Take from the theoretical and apply it to history and reality.