Comment by skyyler
3 months ago
They're not comparing the brutality of the event, they're comparing different approaches to informational / ideological hygeine.
CCP suppresses 1989 by banning discussion of it.
USA doesn't have to suppress 1989 MOVE bombing, or the Tulsa racist uprising, or the atrocities that went down in gitmo, or the friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and previous and current presidents, or My Lai or Abu Ghraib or Haditha or Kunduz or Nangar Khel or Maywand District or Baghuz because the citizens just don't care.
USA doesn't have to suppress 1985 mistakes, because it acknowledges them and allows itself to be criticized. Claiming that censorship is somehow better because it's a proof that people care is absolutely ridiculous.
Citizens don’t care because if you show them an armed standoff where the police brutalized some people then they will say:
1. I’m not in armed standoff often so this is not impacting me at all. 2. The brutality seems to have come from city police authorities and I don’t live in that city.
Similarly all of those things you mentioned are not impacting people’s lives at all. No one will start any revolution over these things.
However the possibility of being forced down some drains as goo because you don’t like the government moves people more because: some people actually don’t like the government and they don’t want to become human goo
The comparable equivalent would be Donald Trump deploying the army to kill people at peaceful Democrat gathering or something.
>The comparable equivalent would be Donald Trump deploying the army to kill people at peaceful Democrat gathering or something
You mean like what happened at Kent State?
1. This is called “changing goalposts” 2. The US isn’t censoring anything about that event 3. According to Wikipedia: There was no order to fire, and no guardsmen requested permission, though several guardsmen later claimed they heard some sort of command to fire. - the government wasn’t even the ones who ordered anything. In Tiananmen Square the Chinese ordered their soldiers to kill and mush their own citizens.
This discussion isn’t intellectually honest so I am going to disengage.
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