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
