alt Hacker NewsCriticizing Mao is "Holocaust apologia" because killing 45,000,000 of his citizenry was just an accident?
More people died then than during the Holocaust. More people dying is objectively worse, no matter how you slice it.
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If I plan out how to kill someone, get the right weapon and execute on my plan, yeah that is murder.
If I see a donation stand for children in Africa and decide to rather buy a video game from that money, well some children are going to starve because of my decision but I haven't exactly killed them.
Blaming Mao for a famine is completely insane if you are not super brainwashed. He was a human not a god.
But considering you took the highest death toll estimation you could find already shows you are not interested in facts but in pushing a narrative.
The 5 - 10 million Congolese who died under Belgian rule is probably much higher as a percentage of the population than the great leap forward.
Great leap forward killed 4% of Chinese population. Vietnam war killed 10% - 12% of people in Vietnam. I do not see condemnation of US here..Rather, I see the celebration that US has a democracy.