Edit : Holy Shit, i Didn’t Realized this post upvoted so quickly in just a single day, 90+ upvotes, New Record For me I guess…
I have never understood the obsession with Tankman by liberals. If this was most western countries, they’d have just driven over the guy. We have seen police do exactly that in protest after protest.
Even before I saw the full clip and was a deluded socdem, I always saw it as a testament to the patience and consideration of the PLA.
Tank man was actually obstructing the tanks from leaving the square (i.e. moving away from the protests) so theoretically he could have been some hard core Communist who wanted the PLA to go back and crush the color revolutionaries for good lmao.
If this was most western countries, they’d have just driven over the guy.
I always thought it was implied that he was ran over or something. The picture really doesn’t mean anything otherwise, and the US education system really doesn’t try to explain any further than “this one guy standing in front of 3 tanks? he was like totally massacred bro, trust me”.
What’s especially fucked up is that there is an actual real life version of events like this that did happen in a “Western” “country”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
Rachel Corrie was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes by the Zionist forces in Rafah, and stood in front of a bulldozer that was attempting to flatten a house. The driver didn’t stop, and drove over her, crushing and killing her.
Yet we don’t see the internet commemorating her death every year and condemning the people who actually did it. Shameful.
Why won’t the Asians just concede themselves to us?! Why do they have to resist and defend themselves?!?!?!
Anyone got the full video link saved? Youtube keeps removing them.
The amount of people who genuinely don’t know that Tank Man both survived and wanted the Tanks to kill protesters is insane to me. Everything about that image is distorted from reality.
wanted the Tanks to kill protesters is insane to me
huh? afaik that was one of the student leaders, not tank man. That dude is jut a random civilian iirc
It’s a common theory because he was blocking tanks from EXITING the area, which only really makes sense if he wants them to turn around and “do their job”, however he would perceive that.
It is yeah but there’s no way to prove he was trying to get the tanks to go back to the square. Maybe he was, but who knows
worst part is tank man was trying to get the tanks to go back to the plaza not trying to stop them going in. He wanted the terrorist dealt with, his OUR hero not theirs.
that’s wishful thinking, honestly. The first part is true however.
Do you have got a source for that?
The full footage shows that the tanks were leaving the square, not entering. They stand in front of them, the driver tries to get around him, they climb on top and chat with the driver for a bit, then bystanders come and walk them away. They have never been identified, their motives never ascertained. It was a divisive time, they could have been stopping them for liberal anti-CPC reasons, they could have been a loyalist counter-protestor insisting they go back to remain in the square, they could have had undiagnosed mental illness and be having a breakdown at really inopportune time, etc
I wonder if this dude even knows how popular he is in the west lol
Based on the Chinese dad mentality many of my friends fathers display he is probably chilling somewhere eating some good food while having an inside laugh about it
exactly my thoughts
I tend to feel fact the tanks are leaving doesn’t necessarily disprove a liberal anti-CPC protestor. People do nonsensical protest actions all the time.
But even if they were it does show the restraint and humanity of the tank drivers.
He was obstructing them while they were leaving (evident from the footage), but it’s unclear what his aim was.
China does not exist. It collapsed in 2022. Anyone stating otherwise is a shill
Excuse me, according to Comrade Chang, China collapsed in 2011. But you know, it is like a star so it takes years for us to see the actual collapse.
Yeah but they BULLDOZED ten million STUDENTS and flushed the human squash through THE drain
Also the man who took this picture and said nothing really happened is also a Chinese paid shill even though he works for the British media
Poortuguese media is going crazy about it. Worry about your decadent ahh country instead of China lmfao
Good article on Tiananmen: https://www.liberationnews.org/revolution-and-counter-revolution-remembering-tiananmen-34-years-later/
Honestly, if they were ever going to color overthrow China that was the time, when China was still rock bottom poor and socialism worldwide was in a rapid downward turn. A color revolution in China now is about as likely as the US having civil war 2 so it’s understandable why liberals would still be seething about it all these years later.
it genuinely makes me happy to know how mad liberals are that it didn’t work lol. like you can hear it in how they talk about it. they fucking hate that China is powerful now
Each year they add a 0 to the death count lmao.
