Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
No, I’m not following you on a death-by-nitpicking quest. How is anyone even supposed to argue with logic such as “reee your source is a politician from TERF-island so this isn’t true!” …
In any case, none of your held beliefs meaningfully change anything about what happened: a mass protest was brutally repressed by an authoritarian regime, many innocent people died. End of story. No CIA conspiracy, no sinophobia, no propaganda, just something terrible that happened in this terrible world.
“No, I won’t engage in the critical analysis of my sources. My view on this heavily politically charged historical event is definitely not influenced by western bias, and even if it was, it doesn’t matter, because constantly unpromptedly bringing up something that happened 36 years ago isn’t political, it’s just a fact.”
No, I’m not following you on a death-by-nitpicking quest. How is anyone even supposed to argue with logic such as “reee your source is a politician from TERF-island so this isn’t true!” …
In any case, none of your held beliefs meaningfully change anything about what happened: a mass protest was brutally repressed by an authoritarian regime, many innocent people died. End of story. No CIA conspiracy, no sinophobia, no propaganda, just something terrible that happened in this terrible world.
“No, I won’t engage in the critical analysis of my sources. My view on this heavily politically charged historical event is definitely not influenced by western bias, and even if it was, it doesn’t matter, because constantly unpromptedly bringing up something that happened 36 years ago isn’t political, it’s just a fact.”