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No...That is YOUR interpretation of what I said. But it is no surprise to the rest of us. You guys have a history of doing this.I did not imply the book was a lie. Simply I told you the author could not have possibly have macro and meta data needed to support the numbers, and was relying on patchy estimate based on what he can find. He concluded 70 million population was wiped off by the famine, a figure which he included those that were never born. That was retarded beyond measure. Obviously the government finds the work offensive and banned it. However, just because it was banned does not validate its truthfulness. You seem to be unable to understand this basic concept.
Here is your ill-logic at work:
1. Chinese government bans publications which may or may not be truthful.
2. Tombstone is banned
3. Therefore, tombstone is truth.
Falun Gong is also banned in China. Their spiritual publications stated there is a magical Buddhist wheel within the human body. Since it is banned, therefore the wheel must exist. You see how retarded your logic is? Being banned is not evidence, but merely a reaction. Mein Kampf is banned in Germany, does that mean everything Hitler wrote was true? How's the ride on the stupid wagon?
The main reason why any book is banned is because the local government, 'local' meaning within confined borders where it exercises a certain degree of authority, fears the DEBATE AND CONTROVERSY the book would produce. When you control facts and access thereof, you control what constitutes 'truth'.
Look at your own words: Being banned is not evidence, but merely a reaction.
Fact and truth are not the same. If you want to know the difference, here is an example...
logic - What is the difference between Fact and Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
If the Chinese government controls -- reaction -- access to the facts of the causes of the famine and the consequential deaths it begs the question of why. What 'truths' are the Chinese government have been and are still trying to formulate? Yang Jisheng, who was a communist party member and still an active participant of the society class call 'journalist' asked that question. What happened could not be contained but the facts that are available, meaning not stashed away, hinted at the scale of the tragedy, and he investigated to find as best as possible that scale.
The irony could not be more delicious. We have mainland Chinese who presently cannot have access to books written about the famine but strenuously defends their governmental directive of exclusion of those books from the Chinese people. Brainwashed is the best and only word to describe the lot of you.
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