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Re:China’s great leap forward in science by wmeredith on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:44AM (#16406039)
I was also shocked at this usage. Why employ such charged language in this way? It’s like if there was a holocaust on poverty or something announced by Germany. This is utterly bizarre.
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Re:China’s great leap forward in science by shard972 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:32AM (#16406220)
Because it was only chinese that died and we westerners don't empathize with chinese as much?

I know that's a bit offensive, but as you said you would see a headline about the holocaust on poverty, or the genocide of african rape or the shoa of fake shekels?

But what about the holodomor on corruption? Does that sound like it could get past a non-ukrainian editor?

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