Some great things China has done to Tibet

[TevashSzat]

Yea, the Holocaust was pretty nasty as well, but you know without all those Jews, there were lots of nice jobs and houses to be had!

So your dad benefited from the persecution and deaths of the educated? Victory for the idiots!

What a joke....

Again, I don't defend what Mao did to the educated, but I want people to understand some of its more positive effects. Just talking about the quite awful ones is like beating a dead horse, imo.

Well, what I don't think people in the west understand is that during the Cultural Revolution, hundreds of millions living in rural areas actually had a chance of doing something worthwhile in their lives. Now, all of them have no chance at all at moving up the social ladder. This disparity and lack of upward movement from the lower and middle classes is an incredible concern in China right now

[Moros]

Again, I don't defend what Mao did to the educated, but I want people to understand some of its more positive effects. Just talking about the quite awful ones is like beating a dead horse, imo.

Well, what I don't think people in the west understand is that during the Cultural Revolution, hundreds of millions living in rural areas actually had a chance of doing something worthwhile in their lives. Now, all of them have no chance at all at moving up the social ladder. This disparity and lack of upward movement from the lower and middle classes is an incredible concern in China right now

So they were killed and robbed, instead of merely being killed. That's much better indeed!