Current Events > I was reading the Wikipedia article on Mao and uhhh

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...compared to Stalin and Hitler, they really try to handwave away Mao's atrocities.

It's a very positive depiction of him on Wikipedia and I don't know what to think.

Anyone can edit Wikipedia.

Great examples.

Mao remains a controversial figure and there is little agreement over his legacy both in China and abroad. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential individuals in the twentieth century.[271][272] He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, poet, and visionary.[273] He was credited and praised for driving imperialism out of China,[274] having unified China and for ending the previous decades of civil war. He is also credited with having improved the status of women in China and for improving literacy and education. In December 2013, a poll from the state-run Global Times indicated that roughly 85% of the 1,045 respondents surveyed felt that Mao's achievements outweighed his mistakes.[275]

Others, such as Philip Short in Mao: A Life, reject comparisons by saying that whereas the deaths caused by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were largely systematic and deliberate, the overwhelming majority of the deaths under Mao were unintended consequences of famine.[278] Short stated that landlord class were not exterminated as a people due to Mao's belief in redemption through thought reform,[278] and compared Mao with 19th-century Chinese reformers who challenged China's traditional beliefs in the era of China's clashes with Western colonial powers. Short writes that "Mao's tragedy and his grandeur were that he remained to the end in thrall to his own revolutionary dreams. ... He freed China from the straitjacket of its Confucian past, but the bright Red future he promised turned out to be a sterile purgatory.[278] In their 2013 biography, Mao: The Real Story, Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine assert that Mao was both "a successful creator and ultimately an evil destroyer" but also argue that he was a complicated figure who should not be lionised as a saint or reduced to a demon, as he "indeed tried his best to bring about prosperity and gain international respect for his country."[299]

And people pretend Wikipedia doesn't have a massive left wing bias lol.

Reading this topic I realised I don't know what Mao's "atrocities" were, and this topic leads me to believe I can't find out on Wikipedia.

I mean Wikipedia got paid by China to censor that

I read Mao as Mario and thought this was a god-tier shitpost.

...compared to Stalin and Hitler, they really try to handwave away Marios atrocities.

It's a very positive depiction of him on Wikipedia and I don't know what to think.

I read Mao as Mario and thought this was a god-tier shitpost.

If Wikipedia had bribe money why would they still be begging for donations on a bimonthly basis? >_>

Isn't that just how Wikipedia entries are supposed to read? Especially since you're kind of being misleading and not showing that they do in fact talk about all the people who died as other posters have pointed out

They excuse the deaths as "famine" and "misguided mistakes"

Isn't that just how Wikipedia entries are supposed to read? Especially since you're kind of being misleading and not showing that they do in fact talk about all the people who died as other posters have pointed out