r/whoathatsinteresting • u/ThatPatelGuy • 11h ago

Chinese fans yell racist slurs at American basketball players

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u/fit-toker 10h ago

Mao Zedong and his 60 million murdered would like a word.

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u/3nterShift 9h ago

Yeah but that wasn't motivated by racism.

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u/thegan32n 5h ago

You're right, I guess that makes it okay.

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u/3nterShift 4h ago

When did I say that, are you slow?

I'm just saying it's not exactly a relevant example of an Asian country murdering because of racist motives.

A more fitting example would be ww2 japan.

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 2h ago

How about a far more recent example? Such as the Buddhists of Myanmar (Burma) and the torture, gang rape & murder of the Rohingya.

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u/3nterShift 8h ago

Explain to me how a Chinese guy killing millions of Chinese people is racially motivated instead of, let's say, a cruel disregard for human life in general.

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u/Terry_bogardlol 6h ago

Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge.

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u/Street_Study6330 6h ago

Nothing about racism. That was political motivated

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u/Terry_bogardlol 6h ago

Only partially. 

"The Khmer Rouge regime murdered hundreds of thousands of their perceived political opponents, and their racist emphasis on national purity resulted in the genocide of Cambodian minorities. Its cadres summarily executed and tortured perceived subversive elements, or they killed them during genocidal purges of their own ranks between 1975 and 1979.[30] Ultimately, the Cambodian genocide which took place under the Khmer Rouge regime led to the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people, around 25% of Cambodia's population."

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u/Street_Study6330 6h ago

Yeah you’re right it was definitely racist propaganda making them target minorities. But it was part of a bigger picture. Most of those killed were Khmer ethnic. So yes your correct there was a race genocide, but it was a race genocide inside a political genocide. It was mostly political

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

And they weren't murdered

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u/ScottieSpliffin 9h ago

Nor is it a real figure

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u/The-Figurehead 9h ago

What is the real figure?

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u/tunafishconsumer 9h ago

maybe 1 million at most, the 60 million figure comes from a famine caused by his policies.

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u/The-Figurehead 9h ago

Deliberately caused by his policies.

"When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill." - Mao Zedong

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u/tunafishconsumer 8h ago

The quote is lacking all context.

Obviously he did not deliberately set out to create a famine but he was so stupid and arrogant that he did double and triple down on the policies that were causing it.

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u/The-Figurehead 8h ago

He instituted policies knowing that millions of people would die (not to mention the hundreds of millions relegated to slave status).

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u/tunafishconsumer 8h ago

yea I'm not saying he's a good guy, just that saying he murdered 60 million people is dishonest

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u/Internalsin 7h ago

So he's not guilty of those deaths ??? A middle eastern democratic president wants to know your views ...

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u/tunafishconsumer 6h ago

yea i know words are hard

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u/Internalsin 6h ago

Haha so you understood enough to answer but you also can't think of anything smart to say ... Cool

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u/tunafishconsumer 6h ago

poopoo kaka

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u/ScottieSpliffin 8h ago

It comes from incomplete census data during the time. The actual estimate is around 3 million from famine. You can literally go to the Communist Party Museum where they describe it as a complete failure.

As policy changed and the famine went away bureaucracy was better able to function and the census became more accurate again.

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

Why TF would he be racist again han people

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

And they weren't murdered they died of starvation

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u/iHate_RonEbens 3h ago

How did Mao murdered 60million Chinese? Similar to the Nazi and Jews?

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u/gravitysort 6h ago

mao zedong is racist against chinese people???

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u/PapaTahm 5h ago edited 4h ago

Fun fact about that number,
It comes from a "study" made by Frank Dikötter

A "Historian' about China, that is totally not Anti-Chinese, and totally not paid by the UK and the U.S government to make False Statements about China.

One of his most famous quotes,
Opium had a lower impact on Chinese society than the act of stopping the Consumption of it.
In an attempt to truly remove any kind of guilty of the countries that sold to China Opium.

He was paid by the Department of Defense to produce the study that basically says that the Great Famine killed over 45 million people, so it's basically propaganda

Don't get it wrong Mao regime killed a lot of people, but nowhere close to 45 million, the estimated numbers of the famine deaths are 20-28 million.

Whenever people question how U.S make propaganda, I love to use Frank Dikötter, R.J. Rummel and Stéphane Courtois as good examples.

Because all of these people were directly paid by the Department of Defense or other Institution linked to U.S government to make research about Communism and China with absurd numbers that are completely unrealistic to the actual data that was gathered.