Additional reading:
BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source
Readings into what happened with the protests:
https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen
https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt-2/
This person isn’t ready to engage honestly yet, so might as well leave it. There are plenty of thoughtful responses but the user only responds to ones that they can easily dismiss as “whataboutism” or say things like “i’m against every state” in some kind of weird all lives matter style…