But it's a good point to bring up when someone plays the moral relativism card. Imagine if our government sent armed thugs after anyone who posts or even mentions the famous photo of the students at Kent State. Not even Nixon would have tried that, but it's business as usual in China.
Nobody criticizes the geocentric model of the solar system these days either.
I have not found an explanation for that epiphenomenon, although I have concluded that it is not meant ironically.
That seems to be happening a lot lately.