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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by throwaway1997 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:52PM (#20036202)
I think the second point of the cable helps explain this:

> 60 PERCENT ILLITERATE AND ARE CALLED PRIMITIVES... THEY WERE KEPT WITHOUT NEWS FOR TEN DAYS AND TOLD THEY WERE TO TAKE PART IN AN EXERCISE. A TV FILM WOULD BE MADE OF THE EXERCISE WHICH PLEASED THEM.

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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by maxxxxx on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:56PM (#20036220)
Don't be arrogant. A lot of "smart" people would go along as well.
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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by throwaway1997 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:38PM (#20036418)
My point was that they isolated a group of people, who had never been educated, from the outside world then bribed them with something they wanted. That is not arrogant.

You do not live in China so it's probably hard for you to understand how our government controls the flow of information and then uses the ignorance to is advantage.

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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by maxxxxx on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:19PM (#20036582)
My point was that a lot of people decide to play along with this stuff. This is not limited to uneducated people.
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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by throwaway1997 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:21PM (#20036587)
Your assumption is that I am using "uneducated" as an insult rather than a fact.
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Re:30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warn... by maxxxxx on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:44AM (#20036919)
That's how it's usually used.
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