Additional reading:
BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source
Readings into what happened with the protests:
https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen
https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt-2/
I wish Eugene Dabs’ channel was still around, I could link to the Yankees vs Tankies video (which I have saved somewhere but I can’t find the damn thing).
You mean this one? https://streamable.com/unjnw9
That’s good, but the Eugene Dabs one was a side-by-side, and the Yankee example was some soldiers in either Iraq or Afghanistan reveling in running a tank over some old man’s work vehicle because he was “rude” to them or something.
“tHaT’s WhAt YoU gEt WhEn YoU lOoT”
I remember this being posted on
a few times and is mysteriously being removed.I am only half joking, btw.
Its that damned Chinese censorship everyone keeps talking about
It’s crazy how the initial meaning of the photo has been so mutilated up to now. To my knowledge the entire point of the photo was to show the compassion for life felt by two people on opposite sides of a gun. The tank’s refusal to kill the man representative of a positive aspect of humanity during conflict.
I was going to make the same comment. What’s lost in the distortion of image for propaganda, and even in the discussion of what really happened at Tiananmen is this:
It’s an incredibly human moment. Amidst days of protests, lynchings, shootings, beatings, fire and violence two people had a conversation. We don’t know what was said or who they were. They could have screamed insults at each other, pleaded to see each other’s point of view, or just talked about crazy this had all gotten. But they had a conversation, as two people and the result was that everyone lived.
The reason so many Americans believe he was run over is because they know if this happened in the US he would have been flattened right away.
And the majority of Americans would say he deserved it for blocking traffic.
Americans don’t give a flying fuck about freedom or protesting or whatever. They only pretend to when it’s politically convenient.
Like this?
Really need the US anthem playing over the American clips to really hammer it home
During the summer of 2020 I saw at least one new video a week of US cops running over protestors with zero hesitation
You left out the 5 minutes at the end where he returns, fist fights the tank, wins, and goes on to found Radio Free Asia.
NO NO 1,000,000 CHINESE DEMOCRATS WERE KILLED BY THAT TANK. I LEARNT THAT FROM MY 10TH GRADE WORLD HISTORY COURSE TAUGHT OUT OF A BOOK WRITTEN IN 1996.
