Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Sit down in that chair over there. Take off your shoes, please. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Wonderful for anti-China libs translating Chinese history/works. “We have defeated the landlords!” can become “we have exterminated the small landowners!” if you want it to. Reminds me a lot of the deliberate mistranslation of Lenin wanting “prostitutes” killed – he meant political sellouts, not people in the sex trade. “Purge”, a very scary word, has also somehow mysteriously been translated from something like “show trial” in almost all English translated Soviet documents about the purges 🤔
Some guy actually told me that both the CPC and the KMT were guilty of “genocide” against Japanese people like what