#tiananmen square

[thecrushingmelancholy]

“Often when my grandmother wanted to justify something dubious, she would say ‘It’s an old Chinese remedy’ or an ‘old Chinese tradition’ or an ‘old Chinese custom’. Mostly, this meant her being able to carry on doing exactly what it was she wanted to do in the first place.”

[calpicowater]

Week 28.8/52: July 8th - July 14th 2024 | Tiananmen

tiananmen square! first time seeing it at night... so pretty

peking duck for dinner at 11:30PM LMAO we were the last customers 四季民福 too hard to get a spot fr

so many ppl!!!!!

[hurgablurg]

apparently one of the blogs i've reblogged from in the past is a tankie who believes the tiananmen massacre never happened. that the chinese government never murdered college students who had a different brand of socialism thought than them (if you can even call the chinese government "socialist", what with their love of capitalism)

so avoid "troythecatfish" if you can.

horseshoe theory is real, but not in the way people tend to think. things like trans rights and free healthcare can't wrap back around to fascism, but things like idealization and nationalization can, warping into cults of personality around infallible revolutionary leaders and putting so many industries into the hands of a singular "government" entity that it becomes a capitalist monopoly again.

and of course, revolution against the state can so easily warp into "purging undesirables" if you don't know who your actual enemy is, or let someone else decide your enemies for you.

[alicearmageddon]

Mao Tsetung's cadres were clean, The Gang of Four's cadres were brave, Hua Guofeng's cadres were nowhere to be seen, Deng Xiaoping's cadres are all millionaires. - Poem from Tiananmen Square, Spring 1989

Source: Tiananmen Square: What The Media Supressed

[bobmorane]

𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟗 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Tiananmen Square: A Novel

By Lai Wen.

[beardedmrbean]

[federer7]

Tiananmen Square protests. Beijing. China. 1989

Photo: Stuart Franklin

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

A horrifying report from 2017, showing that as many as 10 000 Chinese were murdered by their government during the Tiananmen Square massare between June 3-4 1989 (the actual protests spanned several weeks).

This part is utterly sickening:

The envoy wrote: "Students understood they were given one hour to leave square but after five minutes APCs attacked.

"Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains.

"Four wounded girl students begged for their lives but were bayoneted."

All of this demonstrates the evil of communism. It is communism's utopia of a controlled society masquerading as the pursuit of "equality" that gave rise to the monumental atrocities of the 20th century, from the gulag system to the mass starvation of Mao's "Great Leap Forward".

It was communism's incoherent ideology that sought to destroy man's right to be free, to say what he pleased, to pursue his own course in life without government control. By destroying fundamental human dignity and freedom, communist rulers gave themselves carte blanche to extricate the 'undesirables' from society using whatever means at their disposal. Dissidents and even former allies found themselves hounded out of polite society, followed, attacked, falsely imprisoned, and executed.

Given the scale of misery and evil visited upon millions during the last century, it angers me to see communist and Marxist fanatics still putting up stickers in my city, asking people to join their ideology.

Perhaps this should not come as a surprise, as communists such as Mao Zedong entrenched their dictatorship by demanding that people forgot history. The past was portrayed as a relic of imperalism, to be a source of shame and rejection. The Communists were to be the saviours, bringing about the promised brotherhood of man.

Likewise, those who continue to hold to Marxism and Marxist-Leninism must likewise demand that people either downplay or whitewash history. The hellish reality of the communist utopia would hardly draw fans from a free country.

Furthermore, I imagine that such ideologues can only sell their contaminated goods in a decadent, increasingly cowardly, and self-hating West. Subverting Western civilisation in order to posit communism as the only viable alternative was always a strategic goal of 20th century communist regimes. In places such as Eastern Europe, where people who remember the horrors of Soviet rule still live, I imagine the communist message would not be so well received.

We must defy the murderous Chinese government by loudly remembering all those slaughtered for simply demanding political reform. Memorials to those murdered at Tiananmen Square should take place outside Chinese embassies worldwide, letting free people know what kind of evil Chinese diplomats are representing, and asking them whether they will continue to allow CCP influence over European countries.

It's time for China's impunity to end.

[brightfametexan]

[girlinafairytale]