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Not sure that's a title I would use... Hopefully this great leap forward doesn't kill 30-50 million people through misguided policies like the last one.

thriftwy 9y ago
I like that downwotes on this co. Shows people fighting for the right to forget events where their side screwed up. If you fight for not getting reminded, how would we make sure you still remember, eh?
- rawTruthHurts 9y ago
  I'd rather blame ignorance of both history and English language.
wmeredith 9y ago
I was also shocked at this usage. Why employ such charged language in this way? It’s like if there was a holocaust on poverty or something announced by Germany. This is utterly bizarre.
- hyperbovine 9y ago
  Hypothesis: the person who wrote this headline is some naive millennial who has no idea about the import of this phrase.
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- shard972 9y ago
  Because it was only chinese that died and we westerners don't empathize with chinese as much? I know that's a bit offensive, but as you said you would see a headline about the holocaust on poverty, or the genocide of african rape or the shoa of fake shekels? But what about the holodomor on corruption? Does that sound like it could get past a non-ukrainian editor?
Dude2021 9y ago
That's a liberal-communist paper, what do you expect?
- valgor 9y ago
  Speaking of not understanding words, you just called the Guardian communist... Please start here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
- AsyncAwait 9y ago
  I wouldn't describe it as such by a long shot, they constantly attacked Corbyn, praise MbS etc. It's your typical neoliberal piece, moving further to the right with each passing election cycle.
  - shard972 9y ago
    The guardian to the right? I mean, can they even admit that current immigration policies in the UK are problematic? Last time I tried reading a piece they couldn't seem to get over that hurdle, and that's turning out to be a pretty centrist view point in europe currently.
    - AsyncAwait 9y ago
      That's what neoliberal basically means. Liberal on social policies, (i.e. they don't want to seem as bigoted towards any group of people), however on the economic & foreign policy front, they're quite to the right by liberal standards, (i.e. pro interventionist policy).
      - shard972 9y ago
        Really? Again I see immigration as mostly economic and foreign policy so being left on that isn't a good start. Throw in the wage gap (an econ issue they are far left on) or their pro-eu stance (very left econ wise). Are you saying they are neoliberal because they are out and out socialists or something? What kind of right wing economic policies do they support aside from free trade which is not really strictly right/left anymore.
paradite 9y ago
Yes. To most native Chinese mainland people, the implied meaning of the title would be contradictory to the content of the article. If it was meant as a Chinese equivalence for "leapfrog", the author is certainly missing some research, presuming good intentions.
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thriftwy 9y ago

I like that downwotes on this co. Shows people fighting for the right to forget events where their side screwed up. If you fight for not getting reminded, how would we make sure you still remember, eh?

rawTruthHurts 9y ago
I'd rather blame ignorance of both history and English language.

wmeredith 9y ago

I was also shocked at this usage. Why employ such charged language in this way? It’s like if there was a holocaust on poverty or something announced by Germany. This is utterly bizarre.

hyperbovine 9y ago
Hypothesis: the person who wrote this headline is some naive millennial who has no idea about the import of this phrase.
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shard972 9y ago
Because it was only chinese that died and we westerners don't empathize with chinese as much? I know that's a bit offensive, but as you said you would see a headline about the holocaust on poverty, or the genocide of african rape or the shoa of fake shekels? But what about the holodomor on corruption? Does that sound like it could get past a non-ukrainian editor?

Dude2021 9y ago

That's a liberal-communist paper, what do you expect?

valgor 9y ago
Speaking of not understanding words, you just called the Guardian communist... Please start here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
AsyncAwait 9y ago
I wouldn't describe it as such by a long shot, they constantly attacked Corbyn, praise MbS etc. It's your typical neoliberal piece, moving further to the right with each passing election cycle.
- shard972 9y ago
  The guardian to the right? I mean, can they even admit that current immigration policies in the UK are problematic? Last time I tried reading a piece they couldn't seem to get over that hurdle, and that's turning out to be a pretty centrist view point in europe currently.
  - AsyncAwait 9y ago
    That's what neoliberal basically means. Liberal on social policies, (i.e. they don't want to seem as bigoted towards any group of people), however on the economic & foreign policy front, they're quite to the right by liberal standards, (i.e. pro interventionist policy).
    - shard972 9y ago
      Really? Again I see immigration as mostly economic and foreign policy so being left on that isn't a good start. Throw in the wage gap (an econ issue they are far left on) or their pro-eu stance (very left econ wise). Are you saying they are neoliberal because they are out and out socialists or something? What kind of right wing economic policies do they support aside from free trade which is not really strictly right/left anymore.

paradite 9y ago

Yes. To most native Chinese mainland people, the implied meaning of the title would be contradictory to the content of the article. If it was meant as a Chinese equivalence for "leapfrog", the author is certainly missing some research, presuming good intentions.

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