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Just to the left of the grown-up juice you will find a bottle of
not-all-about-you juice.
Have a couple of sips, and stop snivelling. You were clearly and wildly wrong about the flaming Hindu, and "standing in front of tanks and the like" gives little hope that you were mysteriously expert on the causes and results of Tiananmen Square. But that is ancillary to the wider contention, that peaceful protest, even to the point of either killing oneself or placing oneself in a situation where one is very likely to be killed is less effective as a way of making a mark on the international consciousness as killing other people. Whether it has the same, less or greater efficacy on national and international policy is another question, which is where Tiananmen Square is interesting and the like.
Now, we're glad that you are in the Head Shop, if only because we may need to get from Green Park to Notting Hill in a hurry. But kindly address the issues and stop whining; I have deleted two posts that were judged to drink too deeply of bitchslap brew, and I suggest you moderate out the largely pointless and ad hominem (if blowing snot over somebody really counts as ad) element of your previous post, then I can do the same here and we can all at the very least affect to believe that this is in some way a productive discussion.
What were the effects on the International Community's attitude and policies towards China of Tiananmen Square? In what sense was it "successful" or "unsuccessful", and in whose terms? |
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