The whole thing with the June 4th incident in general is a big mess of the game “telephone.” You say the killing happened off the square and people think you’re denying any killing happened at all because all they hear is “no killing happened on the square.”
This gets even worse when the question becomes “what happened on Tian’anmen Square?” Answering that it seems no killing happened on the square is technically supported by evidence, yet answering in such a way without bringing up the fights between rioters and the PLA on their way to the Square itself, where hundreds of people absolutely died and no one denies, leads to claims of “absolute denial” which isn’t a stance held by anyone.
Actually looking at the questions and the responses, this feels logical to me.
“Tell me about the protests or pictures” sure
“What happened here?” Technically it depends who you ask, and I’m just a monkey in a box so I’m not gonna answer you
The whole thing with the June 4th incident in general is a big mess of the game “telephone.” You say the killing happened off the square and people think you’re denying any killing happened at all because all they hear is “no killing happened on the square.”
This gets even worse when the question becomes “what happened on Tian’anmen Square?” Answering that it seems no killing happened on the square is technically supported by evidence, yet answering in such a way without bringing up the fights between rioters and the PLA on their way to the Square itself, where hundreds of people absolutely died and no one denies, leads to claims of “absolute denial” which isn’t a stance held by anyone.