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 :)

  • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Surely the proletarian way of writing is overly pompous using obscure latinisms?

    And no, I don’t make a habit of mocking people for how they type, my original response was detailed and serious, but when the commenter above decided to become a smug shit, I lost any reason to respect them.

    • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      I mean, yes, actually, the pseudo-intellectualism that people like me demonstrate, (which maybe includes a pompous vocabulary to you “actually educated” folk), is the proletarian way of writing. Surely you’re not implying that someone privileged enough to get a college education AND spend their time online demeaning people is the proletarian speaker in this conversation?

      You lost any reason to respect them? Crazy low barrier. You sure are a person of the people.

      See, I’m guilty of that kinda stuff, too. And I’m annoying and preachy like you, too.