I mean, they did say that the military responded in a disproportionate way. We’re all in agreement that tanks against protesters is bad.
The “thousands or hundreds” isn’t a defence of the massacre, but an indictment of the reports that somehow felt the need to inflate numbers, as if the original ones weren’t bad enough. That’s disingenuous and calls the general credibility into question.
Multiple things can be true at once:
Applying military force against protesters is bad.
Misrepresenting facts is bad.
Attempting to counter one misrepresentation with another misrepresentation is bad.
The point of the comment you replied to is that we should treat the atrocity with the serious honesty it warrants.
I mean, they did say that the military responded in a disproportionate way. We’re all in agreement that tanks against protesters is bad.
The “thousands or hundreds” isn’t a defence of the massacre, but an indictment of the reports that somehow felt the need to inflate numbers, as if the original ones weren’t bad enough. That’s disingenuous and calls the general credibility into question.
Multiple things can be true at once:
The point of the comment you replied to is that we should treat the atrocity with the serious honesty it warrants.