Re:The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
by ceejayoz on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:20PM
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I'm not sure the "militant students" framing is very fair here, but it's otherwise a good point - we saw in the Arab Spring that the end result wasn't really democracy, and it's a good question which way China might've gone.
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Re:The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
by p_j_w on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:54PM
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>I'm not sure the "militant students" framing is very fair here
You may want to re-read the article. There's at least one passage of a group of the protestors approaching a surrendering soldier with pipes, rocks, and other weapons. The reporter continues, "surely the man would be killed. There was nothing I could do to help him in the chaos."
Perhaps the argument here is that the guy got what he deserved, but I think if you want to argue that it's okay to kill someone who's surrendering, you might be fairly classified as militant.
Re:The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
by mc32 on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:10PM
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I think there is a difference between militant “Hongweibings” and a street lynching. One is ongoing and organized with tacit approval from the highest ranks, the other an ad-hoc mob phenomenon.