Comment by skyyler
3 months ago
>"yet nothing changes" -> "How many other times after the move bombing did a city bomb out violent criminals in a densely packed neighborhood?"
How many times since 1989 has the chinese communist party rolled tanks over a crowded city square during a student protest in Beijing's main square?
I can tell what you're doing here and I think I'll refuse to engage.
Have a nice weekend.
That's hard to tell. How would even know if the system is good enough at censoring? How many things have happened in Tibet or Xinjiang that we have no idea of?What would our understanding of Tiananmen square have been if a few western reporters weren't present for the events?
"There was a protest and everyone was told to go home"
Yes, it should be pretty clear what I'm doing: pushing back that on the idea that a heavily censored society is actually healthier than an uncensored or less censored one.
> How many times since 1989 has the chinese communist party rolled tanks over a crowded city square during a student protest in Beijing's main square
Uh, Hong Kong [1][2].
Also, in case you're being serious, the problem in Tiananmen wasn't tanks rolling into the city. It was the Army gunning down children [3].
[1] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/disappearing-children-of-h...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
Did they use tanks in Hong Kong?
> Did they use tanks in Hong Kong?
This is sort of like arguing America has solved redlining because mortgage bankers aren't doing it with a red marker.
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