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[โ€“] abraxas@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what you seem to think about the billions of people who know about the Massacre and millions who know enough about it not to be convinced by you. You are taking the same tactic of other deniers, expecting me to have nothing but Tank Guy and my High School History book in my back pocket.

Further, you are now accusing ME of being broken or "sensitive" for simply knowing the Tienanmen Square Massacre happened. I'm going to apply the outsider test of faith here again (I know it won't work, I don't care). You sound exactly like a Holocaust Denier I dealt with a year ago.

After the hysterical comparison claims... are you asking me to post the grisly photo of a line of human bodies, crushed, with joints in wrong directions, or you won't believe it's true? I'm not trying to convince YOU. I know from "How to Respond to Tiananmen Trolls" (from anti-propaganda Doublethink Labs) that a video of it happening would do nothing but make you smile and say "see, no evidence". I just need to provide a voice that the world is indeed round so that flat-earthers don't get a better foothold.

As for the evidence, most people have already seen it and you're just helping them forget it was there by pointing out that I haven't bombarded YOU with articles and photos you would just deny. I would really love (hate) to hear your rebuttal to the disgusting photo of corpses crushed by tanks, but I will not be posting NSFL content in this place.

Also, for anyone reading, I'd like to remind people of one rebuttal to your Holocaust comparison response. YES, there are more pictures of the Holocaust than the Tienanmen Square massacre. The holocaust happened over TWELVE YEARS and there are dozens of photos. The Tienanmen Square Massacre happened on ONE day. And for the casual observer who might still be here, note that this wasn't just some protest-turned-riot. It was a long peaceful protest that was ended by the march-in of the military. In fact, there were upper leaders in the Chinese government who wanted to NOT kill all the protestors, and instead find a peaceful agreement with them (Zhao Ziyang comes to mind) whose career ended for not being on board. But I guess they'd just be Tienanmen Square deniers too?

I'm curious what Zhao Ziyang said publicly after the massacre. But that's a laugh. He was kept under house arrest for the rest of his life with no charges ever being levied against him, ousted from his party leadership shortly before the massacre. Oh wait, shit, yeah, in secret memoirs he released, he acknowledged the massacre and that he agreed it was a grave mistake. Leader of the Communist Party until right before the massacre.

There's literally nothing but a few obviously coerced confessions that counter the truth of the massacre. And you don't care. Ultimately, Massacre deniers will just start defending China's "necessary" action to kill those innocent protestors, as you've already started doing. What you did wrong was accidentally doing it while still pretending it didn't happen. People will notice that.

[โ€“] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You're just question begging, it gives me very little to engage with.