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Terminally unserious understanding of history and scale, the comparison in-and-of-itself trivializes the Holocaust 
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What the fuck is it with them and Tienanmen? Why is that specific event of such religious significance?
I thought the GLF or cultural revolution filled that role.
People can't string a sentence together about the "crimes" in either except that there was a famine at some point, they are too lazy to even read their anticommunist literature. "Tiananmen Square Massacre" has the crime right in the title, no further reading necessary!
Those don't quite tickle the lib's fancy in the same way. The GLF is just "baddie bad man being bad" to them, and the cultural revolution is similar. It's just the scene in the movie where the villain shoots a puppy or something to show how evil they are.
But Tienanmen square is different. It is presented to the people in the west as Chinese people rising up against oppression, and crucially, failing to succeed. This is why they love it so much. Those Chinese people want freedom, but they can't do it alone, they need the help of the west! They need the west to come and free them! It's an invitation to do whatever horrific things they want to China in the name of "freeing them" because according to the western narrative, that's exactly what they want.
Weird, because the cpc had a bunch of purges that did actually happen. But I guess they happened back in the dim, unremembered depths of, like, the 30s and 40s so that's not real? Or something?
Do the libs know that Deng isn't in charge anymore? I mean i guess they think Xi is genociding everyone. : p
It's just Western justification for why Deng is as bad as Mao.