[tlear]

Think of it as how Americans are completely tolerant of communists while people who lived under communist rule tend to be not so much. Americans have not experienced Cheka, Holodomor or Cultural Revolution. They also have not experienced Taiping rebellion or any of the other massive slaughters that happened in China over religion. Think 30 year war except it happened quite recently.

Would I be ok now with now with grabbing every random moron wearing commie t-shirt and throwing him into re-education camp? No. 15 year old me who just finished reading Archipelag Gulag and was finally told my family history during Holodomor? Well I would get a rope, find a tree and get to work.

Things like this are very complicated. Having said that Google is idiotic trying to reenter PRC market. Communist party will never allow them to grow to any degree there if they have any independence, they would need to become a servant of the party 100%, even then.. likely they will just get all of their tech stolen and bunch of intelligence officers placed into leadership roles. There is NO path for them to grow in China and succeed, what they sell is too valuable for control of people to allow foreign controlled entity any growth inside PRC.

[_khau]

> Think of it as how Americans are completely tolerant of communists

What?

[tlear]

What was it 17-18% of social science profs that self identify as Marxists?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.147...

[ionised]

You're talking about the country of McCarthyism and the Red Scare here. Those same attitudes persist in much of the population.

Tolerant is absolutely not the word I would use.