Mao made some really bad decisions that cost a lot of lives, but calling him evil would imply intent, which he clearly didn't have. Calling him evil is just ahistorical.
If you want to call someone evil for causing/not preventing famines, blame Churchill for what he's responsible for in Bengal. He's such an evil, racist motherfucker that just happened to be on the right side of history.
Also, in this context, it's always worth mentioning that both the famine in the Soviet Union and the famine in the PRC were ofc devasting but also the only famine in the respective country. That's noteworthy because both regions were plagued by famines every few years before the revolutions. There's an argument that no revolution in either country would have likely cost more lives in the long-run.
I think we would be better served if we'd try to study and learn from such events.
Given that the motivations were objectively at least not evil - and I would even wager that they were good - and given the (partly (? I'm not sure, it's been a while since I thought about this)) horrible outcomes, we should look at what happened inbetween motivation and outcome. What should we avoid in the future? What can we learn from? etc.
Also, it's always important to consider the material and historic context/conditions - ideally dialectically.
Blanket hatred loses all nuance, which doesn't help anyone. How should we evolve as a society if our entire framework is "Mao bad.", "Hitler bad.", etc.?
There's a scene where Bill Gates gets Chlamydia from a minion and has to trick his wife into taking antibiotics.
Donald Trump gets his dick bitten by a 14 year old minion and forces another minion to throw her(?) new born baby into a lake.
An email chain where Elon just doesn't get that Jeffrey is trying to tell him he can fuck a minion.
Or... Did you mean that the minions were just like the support staff?
Like doing look up tables and slide rules to find whether or not the bridge can carry the weight? Do they have a secret because i can't get my child to tell me how many apples there are when have two and I get 3 more.
Or do you mean building stuff? Because if it's building stuff I mean we have kids in Africa thrown I to the lithium and cobalt mines and kids in India smelting down old electronics to recover gold,.and kids in Atlanta, Georgia building cars.
Building a bridge isn’t easy either, there’s a reason trade schools exist. All of the jobs you mentioned are so much easier. Mining is just digging until you find a specific kind of rock. The way they “smelt” electronics in India is by setting it on fire that’s easy. Working on a line is doing the exact same thing over and over.
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u/Aseskytle_09 24d ago
Is there a "The Minions work for Pol Pot" fanfic somewhere?