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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989
(lemmy.world)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
The protests lasted over a month; the massacre ended them in a flood of state-sponsored murder.
I wonder if they survived the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Jfc it's hard reading each of those children's names, thinking about them each having a family..
There's also the existence of eunuchs in ancient Chinese governments. Having your business chopped off in order to become a member of the leadership in your country takes a different set of values and priorities.
But before CCP wasn't it ROC, not imperial China?
It sounds like that's what I'm talking about. It was Imperial -> ROC -> PRC, not Imperial -> PRC.
The only progress was ROC. PRC was worse.
It's like saying "Oh you don't like Trump fucking up everything in our government so it's way more authoritarian? Well it's much better than when the US was imperial England, so it's still progress."
There's a step missing.
As much as I despise the PRC, thank you for making this point. It always bothers me when people ignore the progress made in the modern era - things may be horrible now, but goddamn were they worse in the past.
Everything was worse at some point earlier on. That doesnt mean much. PRC came from ROC, so it wasn't progress.
lol…. I always thought d’Nile was a river in Egypt. Who knew it ran right through china as well.