Anonymous #2 6w

i feel like china is so intrinsically culturally different from the west it can’t be judged through western concepts of liberty

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Anonymous #2 6w

you can see how getting arrested and held hostage for having a photoshopped image of JD Vance would be better than not getting arrested for that?

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Anonymous OP 6w

Because that’s what the outcome would be if you got arrested for that in China but for Mao 💀

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Anonymous #2 6w

yeah because a dictatorship that doesn’t let you criticize someone who directly caused the deaths of tens of millions of people is sooooo liberated

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Anonymous OP 6w

i would not like that in the united states no

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Anonymous OP 6w

Quite literally the only reason people the same age as us in China don’t criticize their government or history is because they’re purposefully not taught about it and everything is hidden. There’s nothing liberating about that

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Anonymous #2 6w

good answer

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Anonymous OP 6w

by history are you referring to one day in june 1989 and nothing else

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Anonymous #2 6w

No I’m referring to the Great Leap Forward that killed tens of millions, but yeah they’re also not allowed to learn about the Tiananmen Square Massacre either

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Anonymous OP 6w

the current chinese leadership says that mao was 80% right and 20% wrong so they don’t like completely deny it

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Anonymous OP 6w

It would be like if the US taught about the 1800-1900s without ever discussing slavery, racism, or the treatment of natives

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Anonymous #2 6w

So would you excuse Germany if they said “yeah Hitler was mostly right but there’s definitely some stuff we disagree with”?

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Anonymous OP 6w

a lot of people don’t see mao as hitler’s equal

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Anonymous #2 6w

especially in china and that’s just facts

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Anonymous #2 6w

I mean yeah that’s literally what I said

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Anonymous OP 6w

They hide a lot of the information and reality of what happened

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Anonymous OP 6w

In reality his policies killed more people than both Hitler and Stalin but a lot of people don’t know that even outside of China

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Anonymous OP 6w

The only difference is that Hitler was a lot flashier. He caused a war and put people in death camps that we’ve discovered a lot about. Without the war and invasion of his occupied land, we wouldn’t know. Same reason a lot of people don’t know about the camps the current Chinese government is using for people now

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Anonymous #3 6w

No clue but if so then that’s also not good

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Anonymous OP 6w

I will say tho, you have to be careful with videos or stories like that about stuff going on the US right now. There’s a loooooottttt of faked and acted out clips and news circulating around, especially of ICE agents and police

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Anonymous OP 6w

No it’s true. Theres also proof that ICE has gotten funding to start surveillance of people’s social medias.

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Anonymous #3 6w

Can you find the clip or news article you saw that in? I’d like to see it too. Also yes I know about the 2nd part, but I still will hold firm that it’s not nearly as bad as China. Two wrongs don’t make the other wrong right 💀

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Anonymous #3 6w

The fact that you’re even able to post this statement online is proof that we’re not as bad as China right now

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