Comment by hktruth | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hktruth | Hacker News Reader

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Yes, overseas Chinese communities are divided, as are families too.

What's happening now is that a Chinese person who doesn't support the protestors is labelled as being pro-China, which is ludicrous.

Protestors have been described as "Little Black Guards", a reference to the Cultural Revolution and the student led Red Guards.

Why? Because it's dangerous to voice an opinion or argue with protestors. There have been numerous assaults. The protestors even beat up a man and tied him up in the middle of Hong Kong international airport!

Now, there are daily fist fights between different factions, between police, radical protestors and pro-government supporters. Excessive force and violence has been committed by all sides.

It's a real mess.

What do you think about the tiananmen massacre? Do you think it is a western fabrication?? If you're not authorized to talk about it we understand...

It’s not a big deal to discuss it even in China. My father bragged he was with the student leader the night before 64 happened. It’s CCP’s fault to commit mistakes when handling students. Is it worth overthrowing CCP just because of it? Hell Chinese people answered no, at least when they are doing most other things right. “Greater good”, you have to understand this to understand Chineses first

I actually heard it is heavily censored and people are kept at bay from openly talking about it. Am I misimformed? If so, can you tell me what is the general purpose of having the great firewall and why is there a need to keep people in the dark about certain things?

I grew up in Beijing and because of the affinity politics are more common topic there. It’s not that “open”, more like in private dinner party, inner circle friend hangout and more likely you can safely start those conversations with taxi drivers who blames the government all the time

The decision to keep people in dark to me is silly but the motivation was always rumors spreads too fast and too wild in China, so it makes sense for the ruler to fear even if they aren’t that dirty. What’s funny is the harder they try to cover up things the quicker it spreads “hey try search XXX it’s blocked”

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