Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by lacampbell on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:13PM (#14036732)

I too am always baffled about how much more accepted communist imagery is than Nazi imagery. Mao and Stalins death counts far outstrip Hitlers. Also anyone advocating nazism in public would be rightly shouted down but you get heavily upvoted posts here advocating all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by vidarh on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:37PM (#14036957)

I have never seen anyone here advocating "all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions" without getting shouted down for it. I would love to see examples (well, not love, but you get the point).

I have seen people here advocating anti-authoritarian socialist ideologies of the types that would get you executed by regimes like those of Mao and Stalin.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by Grue3 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:26AM (#14040391)

There are plenty of actual, unironic Stalinists and Maoists on Reddit.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by vidarh on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:06AM (#14041444)

I don't doubt it, but the claim I responded to was that we get "heavily upvoted posts here advocating all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions". Key word being here.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by giggles_giggles on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:25PM (#14036836)

Everybody read Elie Weisel's Night in school but almost nobody's heard of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, for one thing..

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by kofejnik on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:44PM (#14038689)

this is simply not true, please read up on Holodomor, forced Chechen relocation, etc. Stalin was pretty much as evil as Hitler.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by bonzini on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:48PM (#14038363)

Some of the mismanagement however was intentional (for example in Ukraine) and/or enforced to a criminal extent (thinking of China here). People died of starvation because their harvest was taken away in its entirety.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by lacampbell on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:51PM (#14045008)

Down-voted for talking truth about the largest mass murders of the 20th century. Kind of makes you not want to be here, doesn't it?

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by bonzini on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:26PM (#14045775)

Oh well. And I am myself European socialdemocratic, which should be just a little bit short of bolshevik for the American POV. :)

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by lacampbell on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:38AM (#14040187)

FYI Holocaust revisionists make similar arguments.

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