Reddit and pop history have been such a disaster for public education. There are so many ridiculous myths (from holodomor-as-genocide to the supposed Uighur genocide) that are at best extremely fringe views among mainstream neoliberal scholars but treated as a dogmatic truth that you would need to be Grover Furr to deny if you listen to people in most online spaces. Today’s example are the people in that thread talking about how tanks rolled over a bunch of protestors in the square, which was a never-credible lie from the reactionary zealot Chai Ling.
Reddit and pop history have been such a disaster for public education. There are so many ridiculous myths (from holodomor-as-genocide to the supposed Uighur genocide) that are at best extremely fringe views among mainstream neoliberal scholars but treated as a dogmatic truth that you would need to be Grover Furr to deny if you listen to people in most online spaces. Today’s example are the people in that thread talking about how tanks rolled over a bunch of protestors in the square, which was a never-credible lie from the reactionary zealot Chai Ling.