How do you respond when people bring up Mao Zedong killing sparrows and causing a famine that killed "millions"? - eviltoast
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    2 years ago

    My reply is that yes, it was a top-down mistake, government policy was a major factor compounding the famine (the CPC even admits it) and nothing like that has happened in the many decades since, demonstrating the ability of the government and the broader movement to learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them. As some other replies pointed out, their history of regular famines has stopped entirely since the Three Year Great Famine, so they have clearly learned, improved and overcome a major hunger issue in a country with huge food demands.

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            1 year ago

            Tiananmen Square.

            Thanks for clarifying.

            Can you share your source that China does not discuss the events surrounding the square?

            I’d love to see your source on what happened there as well.

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              Funny how reddit libs will just downvote this comment asking for sources but not dare engage with it.

              It’s an intellectually honest question. Can anyone actually provide a source that China does not discuss the events surrounding the square? Or do they just assume it’s true and have never actually looked to confirm that claim themselves?

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                1 year ago

                Since they’re banned we can’t see the comments from inside the 'grad (and they can’t see yours since you’re apparently banned from .world). He edited in an encyclopedia article, with no sources:

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                Funny how they come out in droves to downvote in general. Always good for a laugh. They sometimes downvote the most neutral comments as well. Makes me wonder if they have a mccarthyite list of “known communists” or something and are instructed to downvote on sight.

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                1 year ago

                BWA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

                Fuck off, cracker

                * You got banned so I can’t respond to your comment asking for a source. It’s pretty funny, though. My source is that you typed “bwahaha”

                • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  @brimnac, since you’re banned from the 'grad (good), I can’t interact with you. I can see your responses if I dip into lemmy.world.

                  An encyclopedia article is not a primary source.

                  An encyclopedia article without any actual links to sources or references may as well be a work of fiction.

                  That’s not a fucking source and you’re still a cracker.