[dang]

The flaw in your argument is the grand canyon between "pointing out an unfortunate or unpleasant fact" and putting down an entire country's "culture".

I don't know what you mean by political expediency but it doesn't sound like something the moderation job is replete with.

[leafboi]

Unfortunate and unpleasant facts can apply to an entire country and culture. There is no physical law in the universe that prevents this from happening.

In reality, for this specific topic, the canyon is not so wide as you believe and I don't think you have the relevant cultural context to make such a judgement call on how wide it is. It's a century old question... how much freedom of speech and how much censorship and at what cost?

In this case you chose to censor something that could potentially be flame bait (but wasn't) at the cost of preventing any discussion about a very real and general truth about China.