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Enrolled in a class on Chinese politics and the first lecture was so unbelievably chock-full of lib talking points. Some that I can recall:

  • calling China a "closed autocracy" and "authoritarian"
  • mentioned that when surveyed, Chinese people rate the level of democracy in their country higher than Americans do for theirs, but with the caveat that they could be under "censorship"
  • showed the "democracy map" that's just this international-community-1 international-community-2 and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale
  • showed this chart that was literally like "Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!" lenin-dont-laugh

There was also language about how the Core Socialist Values get "hammered" into people's heads in China, which definitely doesn't happen in the free West sans-troll

Might be a long semester if I stay in this course cringe

Edit: class has been dropped kel-bliss

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[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

showed this chart that was literally like "Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!"

Nazi class, lmao.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Hey professor don't you think making an explicit point to tie communist ideology which opposes fascism and the supporters of which were actually the first victims of fascism with "being worse than fascism" might be, i dunno, an attempt to rehabilitate the images of nazis and fascism?"

who-did-this

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Looking at the image they literally took people killed by the nazis and counted them as killed by Stalin, so it's actually even worse than that.

[–] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Did some digging on that figure, and it gets worse lol. Here's the chart for context

Seems to have been originally posted on reddit-logo. I checked the given source for the chart and it's an article on the 10 dictators who killed the most people on a top 10s website that hasn't been updated in 10 years. The article itself has a lot of gems too. It ends with

The moral of the story is: Let’s stop allowing evil political dictators to take office. And if we do have someone bad in office we can find better ways to get them out than murdering them, wars, and aggressive confrontations.

Like c'mon i-cant

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's bordering on Holocaust denial, but of course it's still taught in schools at all levels in Amerikkka.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

TBH I wouldn't even say bordering. The only way this isn't Holocaust denial is if it's WW2 denial.

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Mao is responsible for every death that ever happened in China while he was in charge, and let’s add a few dozen million for fun!

Hitler though isn’t even responsible for every death in a war that he started, nor every death that the military under his orders caused; hell, let’s give a bunch of those to Stalin.

Tojo also sneaking away there ignoring the vast majority of deaths he caused for some reason. Sure says a lot about who the chart maker considers people.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I can’t believe Mao invented famines in China, which had never existed before 1949. Truly China must return to the glorious days of the dynastic system where the people never starved and lived happily and carefree.

No wonder children can't learn to read when this is the level of professor training our teachers

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, Stalin was the very famous leader of the uh... Sovjet Union yes yes

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The people who liberated Auschwitz were worse than the people who built Auschwitz. I am a very serious and intelligent expert"