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Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 08:48:39PM 5 points [-]

So far as I know, no academic has in fact got into any sort of trouble for expressing opinions like those

Let me enhance your knowledge.

People died in the Cultural Revolution.

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." -- Karl Marx

Comment author: gjm 23 December 2015 09:26:55PM -1 points [-]

Let me enhance your knowledge.

You link to three stories, but so far as I can see only the first of them is actually anything like an example of what we were talking about. Still, that's one more than I knew of, so thank you.

The way many students at Yale responded to Christakis is shocking, for sure. But, again, this is a long long long way from the Cultural Revolution. She didn't lose her life or even her job. And this is an unusually extreme case.

Karl Marx

I knew where the quotation comes from, and what it refers to, and what it means, as you could have worked out:

Nor does it bear anything like the same resemblance to the Cultural Revolution as Louis Napoleon's assumption of power did to his uncle's.