Those don’t quite tickle the lib’s fancy in the same way. The GLF is just “baddie bad man being bad” to them, and the cultural revolution is similar. It’s just the scene in the movie where the villain shoots a puppy or something to show how evil they are.
But Tienanmen square is different. It is presented to the people in the west as Chinese people rising up against oppression, and crucially, failing to succeed. This is why they love it so much. Those Chinese people want freedom, but they can’t do it alone, they need the help of the west! They need the west to come and free them! It’s an invitation to do whatever horrific things they want to China in the name of “freeing them” because according to the western narrative, that’s exactly what they want.
Those don’t quite tickle the lib’s fancy in the same way. The GLF is just “baddie bad man being bad” to them, and the cultural revolution is similar. It’s just the scene in the movie where the villain shoots a puppy or something to show how evil they are.
But Tienanmen square is different. It is presented to the people in the west as Chinese people rising up against oppression, and crucially, failing to succeed. This is why they love it so much. Those Chinese people want freedom, but they can’t do it alone, they need the help of the west! They need the west to come and free them! It’s an invitation to do whatever horrific things they want to China in the name of “freeing them” because according to the western narrative, that’s exactly what they want.