@QPaysTaxes Probably a big part of it is that there was less attention given to the Chinese. It's just like how terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels are big news, but terrorist attacks in the Middle East aren't as widely publicized.
> In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, which led to a widespread famine whose death toll is estimated at between 18 and 45 million. In 1966, he initiated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a program to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements of Chinese society that lasted 10 years and which was marked by violent class struggle,
> critics consider him a dictator comparable to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin who severely damaged traditional Chinese culture, as well as a perpetrator of systematic human rights abuses who was responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 million deaths through starvation, forced labour and executions, ranking his tenure as the top incidence of democide in human history.
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(Note: <n> is where you type your input)
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:let @q=" "<cr><n>@qbD
Meaning I am revealing 5 out of 19 characters.
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@orlp Phrasing things as a question of "degree of <quality>" rather "<quality> should be completely removed/ignored" is likely to more mellow and more conducive to civil and productive discussion