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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.

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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”.