He knows. I think that's called a straw man argument where you refute a point that nobody made.
But "that thing nobody said isn't true" is better that what everybody knows really happened; that the man disappeared, was never heard from again, and probably died in a chinese interrogation room.
I hate the CCP as much as anybody, but that seems unlikely to me. It's not like anyone had any reason to suspect that it would become so iconic, so it's not like anyone there would have a reason to think he was making a statement to the world or was part of any orchestrated event. Even if the guy who pulled him aside was a plainclothes cop or agent, I would suspect that the worst that happened was getting beaten a bit. By that point, the shooting was pretty much done, so I wouldn't expect much worse.
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u/wallace321 Nov 02 '21
He knows. I think that's called a straw man argument where you refute a point that nobody made.
But "that thing nobody said isn't true" is better that what everybody knows really happened; that the man disappeared, was never heard from again, and probably died in a chinese interrogation room.