• Serdan@lemm.ee
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    why call it man-made then? sure you can argue that man-made doesn’t mean ‘deliberate’ but thats not how most people would interpret it. ‘famine’ is the clear neutral term.

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

    where is mention of ‘man-made’ in Bengal Famine?

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

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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.

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        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.

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          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.