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by trasz 1488 days ago
Ah, right, they apologised. That changes everything :->

What matters is that nobody - not a single one of perpetrators of a bombing organised by police, which killed five random kids, and this is ignoring reports of police shooting at survivors fleeing the fire - got punished. "The city" paid some (public) money, that's all. It's not whataboutism, it's showing that the claim that "public condemnation against China will do nothing" because of Tienanmen is terribly misleading: those same things happen everywhere, you're just assuming they are somehow fundamentally different there. Sometimes they are, but mostly not.

As for the Chinese government: Chinese prime minister responsible for Tienanmen spent the rest of his life in house arrest. Can you imagine this happening in the land of the free?
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refurb 1488 days ago
China denies the event. They just removed a memorial statue in Hong Kong.

Are you seriously arguing that response is better than the US?

Never mind crushing a democratic protest and killing thousands is in no way comparable to police trying to execute an arrest of a small group.

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trasz 1488 days ago
>China denies the event.

It never ceases to amaze me how people still believe things like this.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-Chinese-citizens-particularly-...

> Are you seriously arguing that response is better than the US?

Are you seriously not realising that you're making a huge assumption here? But please, tell me how putting the prime minister in house arrest for the rest of his life is a worse response than ignoring the whole thing altogether and not even pretending to prosecute.

(Also: thousands? Estimates, eg Amnesty International, say few hundred up to a thousand; funny how those numbers somehow keep growing when it's about China and not US, isn't it?)

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refurb 1488 days ago
China just tore down a statue in HK commemorating the massacre.

But your telling me your quora link tells me all is fine?

Come on, your spending an awful lot of time defending a brutal dictatorship.

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trasz 1488 days ago
>China just tore down a statue in HK commemorating the massacre.

How is that different from Eastern Europe countries removing Soviet statues?

>Come on, your spending an awful lot of time defending a brutal dictatorship.

Do you know the political preferences of the people who actually live there? And if you do, why do you believe you know better?

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