• @[email protected]
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    Well that is where societies get to. Being educated or uneducated becomes equivalent to a political stance. There are plenty of examples of educators getting murdered by governments, sometimes en masse.

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      Pol Pot took it a step further and murdered anyone who wore glasses, because wearing glasses was seen as being educated.

      Authoritarians of every type hate the educated, because the educated often hate authoritarianism.

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      152 years ago

      What’s more concerning is when a society is populated by people who have take the most facile understanding of a position, and then go about confidently as if they understand it. Like, say, if a news article has a rage porn headline and then people don’t read it to understand what actually was going on but make comments on websites as if there was no nuance to the subject whatsoever. … Very concerning.

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        52 years ago

        sigh the massacres were in side streets, not the square. The students themselves left under the threat of being removed violently once it became clear that the hardline faction in the CCP had won out over the reformists.

        Saying things like “Students were massacred on the square” only gives the CCP ammunition for their “see what kind of vile propaganda the west spreads, they’re making shit up” narrative.

        • @[email protected]
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          152 years ago

          Why is it an important distinction? Massacre is massacre whether it’s on a square or on side streets.

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            Because of what I already said. Also even if the CCP wasn’t using that kind of talk for internal propaganda it’s still nice to be accurate, you know?

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          sigh the massacres were in side streets, not the square

          Good thing that I wrote “The CCP didn’t massacre a bunch of uneducated citizens in Tiananmen Square.”

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            The way I read is “The CCP didn’t massacre a bunch of uneducated citizens in Tienanmen square”. Because, you know, the context was “educated people get slaughtered”.