Willis Barnstone's translation of Mao's poetry doesn't once mention the 45 million people Mao killed by famine. Interesting.
@cwage Quietly re-evaluating everything I've ever read (and liked) by Barnstone.
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@sarahdoingthing@cwage re-evaluating in which direction? -
@drethelin@cwage toward not trusting anything he says - 7 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing@cwage Mao didn't kill many Jews. And famine is practically natural anyway. -
@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing i dunno Barnstone. is it possible he is genuinely just ignorant of it? a shocking number of people are - 1 more reply
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