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  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    If you only read the first paragraph and ignore the rest of the article you deserve to not understand anything.

    misleading people is good, got it.

    Feel free to add it. I'll support the change

    First, the page is protected, also good luck getting that past mayo ass mods.

    • Serdan@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I don't think it's misleading. Distinguishing between famines caused solely by external factors, and famines caused in part or in whole by policy, seems entirely reasonable. I was responding to your assertion that someone might misunderstand the meaning of "man-made".

      The biases of Wikipedia reflect the biases of its editors (there are Wikipedia articles about that). It could be a great tool for radicalization, but I suppose it's easier to just complain about it.

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        i do not wish to spend the rest of my life in edit-wars with crackers. i've already had the pleasure of having to talk to these annoying turds in neoliberal economics related articles.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        There haven't really been that many famines throughout history (at the very least in the last few centuries) that have been caused by there not being enough food to eat per se. Most of them are caused by food being distributed away (either directly via railroads or "indirectly" by market forces and speculation) towards places that already have enough food.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        There is no such thing as a famine "caused solely by external factors". The wording is misleading because it implies there is such a thing as a famine that isn't man made and therefore the one that occurred in the Soviet Union being called "man-made" is already a deliberate attempt at drawing a distinction between it another famines. It is a fact that in all famines there is a human factor necessary to compound on environmental factors in order to cause a famine. You don't get famines that occur due to nature alone. The problem with this article is that by starting out with such language the myth is reinforced that there was something exceptionally malicious about this famine.