Requiem For China

Campus Report ^ | August 27, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Requiem for China

by: Bethany Stotts, August 27, 2009

Those familiar with the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party are often distressed by the soft treatment given communist leader Mao Tse-Tung, a leader personally responsible for the death of tens of millions.

At a recent press conference held by America’s Survival, Inc., Professor Paul Kengor explained why Chinese courses and history books tend to adopt rosy-eyed glasses when recording the actions of Chairman Mao.

“[Mao] was a cultural icon in America in the ’60s. At one point in the ’60s, The Thoughts of Chairman Mao was the number one selling book of the world,” said the Grove City College professor.

According to Kengor, Mark Rudd’s autobiography describes how he and other Weather Underground members derived inspiration from Mao Tse-Tung, Che Guevara or Fidel Castro, while one member—Michael Klonsky—was a Stalinist. Kengor said many of the WU members, like Ayers and Klonsky, went into education.

He also argued that academics can’t handle criticism of Bill Ayers because of a) his connection to Barack Obama and b) their anti-anti-communism. “It’s not that professors today, or most professors, are communist—and this is my olive branch here to the left and my caveat to the right to cool down their rhetoric,” he said, continuing

“The anti-anti-communists in academia in particular are writing the high school history books that your kids are using. Those are written by college professors,” he later said.

In 2002 Kengor reviewed 20 high school history books for the Wisconsin Research Policy Institute. He described how some textbooks whitewash the record of the CCP. “This is a side bar in the textbook Global Insights,” said Prof. Kengor at conference. He quoted the book..

[Westbrook]

What a flaming twerp. A doubleplusgood duckspeaker.

Hey, professor.

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, in case you didn't already know.

An anti-anti-communist is a COMMUNIST by definition!

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Americans know little about China compared to the history of other countries, so revising history will be easy for these “anti-anti-communists.” On the other hand, the nonsense that peasants were fervently trying to break their own production records is just too ridiculous to ignore.

Anyone from that generation in China will privately tell you about their anger over what happened to them and their country during that period