> You do realize that the recent administrations are the exact victims of those failed
> polices back in the 50s/60s? You do realize that the current Chinese President
> had his father put into jail because of those policies? Do you even know that the
> Chinese President himself was sent to the most rural area to work as a
> farmer/labour for 7 years because of those policies?
> Suddenly, the victims need to be responsible for the horrible past.
I used that example only as a counter example to the statement made in your previous post, that "Chinese living in China" can "figure out what is truth and what is propaganda, and "Chinese as a population of 1.4B" cannot "be easily manipulated."
Not to divert too far, I am just saying that, the propaganda and the censorship in the country made it is almost impossible to find out the truth, in many cases such as those ones that I listed in my previous posts.
There is a saying that "in today's China, the history is unknown but the future is always sure..."
Back to your question in your current post: yes, I know that Xi Jinping was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution...So was Bo Xilai, but that doesn't change Bo's apparent fondness about the Cultural Revolution style...
And, please don't mix up the Great Famine with the Cultural Revolution -- they were almost 8 or 9 years apart...and neither Xi Jinping nor Bo Xilai was much affected during the Great Famine...
> This is as silly as arguing that thousands of people
> got killed by flying Boeing-747 and thus it was a bad
> idea to develop 747.
Sometimes inappropriate analogies could misguide people's reasoning...to justify your analogy, you need to also do a cost/benefit comparison and see if the two cases are at a similar ratio or scale...
And just try to live next to one of those factories in some seriously polluted areas in China for several weeks , perhaps you could have some empathy for the local people who have been living there for their entire life...
And how much compensation will they ever get?
Well, again, my original point of using this example was only to address your statement that people in China know the truth well...If that is the case, I don't think people these days, including you and me, would have too much contention about what the truth really was...
In the future, let us try not to divert from topic to topic -- then this discussion would become arguing for the purpose of arguing, instead of for the purpose of getting closer to the truth...
> so just follow your system because it works so well in
> Arab Spring countries lately? What a joke.
If you look at a broader historical picture, then do you happen to know that there was a Spring of Nations around 1848 in Europe? Just look that up...A little more knowledge about the truth won't do you harm -- and, the Spring of Nations is not a joke, it is a historic fact...
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If you have more counter-arguments, please list them below...I will try to come back to address them later when I find some more time...thanks...