On Sunday, a Bloomberg opinion columnist offered a take apparently minimizing the horrific, bloody Chinese Cultural Revolution launched by the Communist dictator Mao Zedong, arguing, “Most of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn’t have any real consequences.” That triggered harsh criticism, forcing the columnist to claim he deleted the tweet because “people were swarming” and “It really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it.”
Noah Smith, whom Bloomberg notes “was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University,” tweeted, “What’s interesting is that most of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn’t have any real consequences. You’d apologize, your students would put up a mean poster in your house, and that would be that …”
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