{"id":575586,"date":"2021-06-28T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575586"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:05:53","slug":"didnt-have-any-real-consequences-bloomberg-opinion-writer-minimizes-maos-bloody-cultural-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/didnt-have-any-real-consequences-bloomberg-opinion-writer-minimizes-maos-bloody-cultural-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Didn\u2019t Have Any Real Consequences\u2019: Bloomberg Opinion Writer Minimizes Mao\u2019s Bloody Cultural Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdidnt-have-any-real-consequences-bloomberg-opinion-writer-minimizes-maos-bloody-cultural-revolution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1172807965.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, a Bloomberg opinion columnist offered a take apparently minimizing the horrific, bloody Chinese Cultural Revolution launched by the Communist dictator Mao Zedong, arguing, \u201cMost of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn\u2019t have any real consequences.\u201d That triggered harsh criticism, forcing the columnist to claim he deleted the tweet because \u201cpeople were swarming\u201d and \u201cIt really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah Smith, whom Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/authors\/AR3OYuAmvcU\/noah-smith\">notes<\/a> \u201cwas an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University,\u201d tweeted, \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting is that most of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn\u2019t have any real consequences. You\u2019d apologize, your students would put up a mean poster in your house, and that would be that \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone responded on Twitter, \u201cThis is a bad take. The students killed millions of people, starting with their teachers and then moving on to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith curtly replied, \u201cBut usually not.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is\u2026 delicious. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oAZQUbbZcK\">pic.twitter.com\/oAZQUbbZcK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Lindsay, intentionally unendurable intellect (@ConceptualJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConceptualJames\/status\/1409341582906585088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1994\/07\/17\/how-many-died-new-evidence-suggests-far-higher-numbers-for-the-victims-of-mao-zedongs-era\/01044df5-03dd-49f4-a453-a033c5287bce\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> noted in July 1994:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>Relying on official Chinese sources, some Western scholars have long accepted that half a million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Hu Yaobang, former communist Party chief, has been quoted as saying that 1 million people died during the period, but the figure apparently excludes the fighting between Red Guard and army factions. A number of scholars, including Harry Harding of the Brookings Institution, believe about 1 million died. But as new evidence emerges, an even higher toll is likely. Two of the Cultural Revolution campaigns least known in the West and least studied by scholars \u2014 the \u201cpurification of class ranks\u201d (1968-70) and the campaign against \u201cMay 16 elements\u201d(1968-69) \u2014 are now revealed to be among the bloodiest.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After apparent blowback, Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noahpinion\/status\/1409406217416417284\">stated<\/a>, \u201cTweet was taken massively out of context btw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI deleted because people were swarming, but I was definitely not talking about the CR overall, just about one narrow set of incidents described by Yu Hua in \u2018China in Ten Words\u2019 \u2014 the pro forma denunciation of every teacher in his school in the CR\u2019s later years.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.498392282958\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I deleted because people were swarming, but I was definitely not talking about the CR overall, just about one narrow set of incidents described by Yu Hua in &#8220;China in Ten Words&#8221; \u2014 the pro forma denunciation of every teacher in his school in the CR&#8217;s later years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Smith \ud83d\udc07 (@Noahpinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noahpinion\/status\/1409408830555885570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After another person pointed out, \u201cA lot of us have read the whole thread. Yes I know you\u2019re just talking about what\u2019s depicted in the book. But the thread, taken as a whole, still sounds like mininalizing the atrocity of CR. Which is what happens when ppl just use an anecdotal account as a source,\u201d Smith wrote, \u201cOK! Perhaps I should have qualified that I think the CR as a whole was a mass atrocity (and one of the most insane in the modern world). I honestly did not expect that people would even consider the possibility that I would minimize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5406360424028\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK! Perhaps I should have qualified that I think the CR as a whole was a mass atrocity (and one of the most insane in the modern world). I honestly did not expect that people would even consider the possibility that I would minimize it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Smith \ud83d\udc07 (@Noahpinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noahpinion\/status\/1409411142045241346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He continued, \u201cI\u2019ve been mad about the Cultural Revolution ever since one of my best friends told me about how his grandfather got his thumbs cut off. In fact, my two best friends both had parents traumatized by the CR, with PTSD to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.430656934307\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve been mad about the Cultural Revolution ever since one of my best friends told me about how his grandfather got his thumbs cut off. In fact, my two best friends both had parents traumatized by the CR, with PTSD to this day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Smith \ud83d\udc07 (@Noahpinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noahpinion\/status\/1409411633898610688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cIt really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it. And that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t bother to give qualifiers that would make it clear that that is not what I was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5204918032787\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it. And that&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t bother to give qualifiers that would make it clear that that is not what I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Smith \ud83d\udc07 (@Noahpinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noahpinion\/status\/1409411784239247361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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