Your post is self incriminating. You of course did not attack me personally in your post, the word "attack" never appeared in it. I am only inventing things again. I try to deal with you with humor, as Michael suggests, but its hard for me in a foreign language. To save yourself future agrgrevation, I suggest you filter all my messages. HCKL "William S. Lear" wrote: > On Wednesday, June 2, 1999 at 10:07:38 (-0400) Henry C.K. Liu writes: > >On your three points, > > > >Point 1: Read again. DeLong wrote: > > Alas! The fact remains that Mao Zedong was (along with > > Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler) the head of one of the very, > > very few regimes that managed to kill more than thirty million > > people in this century. Mao's Great Leap Forward and the > > Cultural Revolution these count as among the greatest human > > disasters of this century... > > And where, pray tell, does the phrase "evil murderer" appear, Henry? > You claimed DeLong was guilty of "labeling a great revolutionary an > evil murderer". Your hyperbole in defense of your hero is > unwarranted, as DeLong clearly used no such language. > > >Point 2 was already nswer in my previous post and by ohters below. > > No, it was not. You soft-pedaled a smarmy history of this "great > revolutionary" who built a cult of personality around himself while > millions suffered and died. > > >You third point is not worhty of an answer, as frequently is the case with > >your biased outbursts. > > Veneration of someone responsible for the demise of millions is what I > would call biased. Your emotional hysteria and blatant distortion of > what DeLong wrote are unfair and unwelcome. If you want to criticize > someone, at least be honest about representing accurately what they > said. Try not to invent things next time, Henry. > > Bill
