From: Vicki Rosenzweig <vr(a)redbird.org>
And now you're saying "relatively"; are you proposing an article that
describes China as "relatively authoritarian", and if so, do you plan
to give a scale from 0 to 100, with notes of where other nations fall on
that scale?
China can fairly be described as authoritarian. They have progressed there
from a situation that could be fairly described as totalitarian, and in some
ways still is. There is a range within which an objective description of the
situation justifies that description of the situation. This situation is
properly discussed in the article [[authoritarianism and totalitarianism]]
which is the appropriate link from use of both the words authoritarian and
totalitarian.
We get all over those who would deny the holocaust; no reason not to not
adopt the same sort of disrespect and impose the same restraints upon those
who would deny the sins of Marxism-Leninism.
Wikipedia should simply be a resource that delivers balanced objective
information, however offensive it may be to partisan viewpoints.
Exclusion of unfavorable information is not a neutral point of view, but
bowing to what is essentially a demand that such information be censored.
Fred