Sorry if the title is a bit weird, I’m curious about what made you believe what you do. Mainstream leftism usually doesn’t go any further than trans rights or maybe UBI in some places, at least from what I know, so what made you go beyond that? You can answer generally or talk about a specific belief, just wanna see what caused the more radical opinions in you
I’m particularly curious about what changed your opinions about the USSR and China, most people think they’re awful, but in here they’re really liked and defended, I’ve even seen a lot of posts denying the Tiananmen massacre and the Holodomor and stuff like that, what made you go to such lengths?
Most westerners think those places are awful, despite never having set foot there. Most of the world was neutral.
There’s a link posted here recently showing the video of the guy on Tiananmen. The tank stops, they talk and he walks away unharmed. But nobody is denying that there were skirmishes in other parts of the city. What’s left out of the story is that the CIA was arming one group of protestors expecting them to perform a coup.
In the same way, nobody is denying that there was a famine in Ukraine. What we oppose is the literal nazi narrative that it was an intentional genocide targeted towards Ukrainians, when other parts of the union were worse affected.
I’ve seen a lot of posts denying white genocide, what made people go to such lengths?
What radicalized me was a protest against nazis when the police showed their true colors. I read what I thought was respectable liberal media whitewashing events I witnessed with my own eyes, and after that I couldn’t trust anything they say anymore. I’m not saying that journalists are evil, they’re just lazy and understandably cowardly. They ask the police what happened and why and then just print that without any criticism or opposing perspective.
Edit: found the video (the comments there also answer your questions)
hey thanks for clarifying, I thought what was said here is full denial or full justification
Do you have any sources on the CIA funding, just to have something more concrete to see? also, did the chinese police know at the time that the protestors were funded by the CIA? or was it only known after?
also yeah, I don’t read mainstream news anymore, they really suck