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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (16 children)

My view is that I have no idea what CCP is, but CPC doesn't seem to be doing anything exceptional with regards to historical revisionism. Perhaps you can try to articulate the point you're trying to make in more concrete terms.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I see. For a concrete example, does China/CPC censors or not Tiananmen Square events? Some context https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Censorship_in_China

Within China, censorship in recent weeks increased as the country prepared for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprisings, a series of student protests that were violently suppressed by the army, leading to more than 10,000 civilian deaths, according to some estimates.

Prior to the anniversary, on June 4, Chinese internet users reported widespread censorship on social media websites. On popular messaging services such as Weibo and a streaming service run by the company YY Inc., users were prevented from entering search terms such as “Tiananmen incident,” “candlelight vigil,” “repression,” and “student movement.”

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request for comment. ---https://theintercept.com/2019/06/07/china-bans-the-intercept-and-other-news-sites-in-censorship-black-friday/

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Tiananmen square was an attempt at a color revolution by US https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen/

There was a whole documentary about it in China https://web.archive.org/web/20200604205421/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDMXV1smwR0

Meanwhile, every government censors things. For example, most Canadians don't realize that the genocidal residential school system operated well into the ~~80s~~ 90s. Thousands of children have been found in mass graves, and there's hardly a mention of this in the media.

[–] seanchai@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The last residential school didn't close until 1996 actually, because Canada is shit.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Right, my bad. I always forget just how long that shit went on here. It's just kind of surreal to realize the country you're living in was doing low key genocide just a couple of decades ago.

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