Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!
friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 day ago“The massacre in the vicinity of, but not directly on Tiananmen Square” doesn’t have the same ring to it. The concrete location might also not matter that much in the grand scheme of things
Microw@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Well, it does matter as far as lots of people who only have passing knowledge about it will believe that it was at Tiananmen Square, that the guy in the famous photo was run over by tanks etc.
And that makes it easy for the CCP to go “you are all falling for propaganda, that did not happen, look how good we are in not killing these protesters”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But they would also say that in response to a 100% accurate retelling.
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
We all know those photos are AI