One of the things I liked about @RottenInDenmark’s piece is his dissection of the casual tendency to compare Mao’s cultural revolution to any sort of perceived trend you disagree with. Because people do this way too much. michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-… 
Hobbes was talking about Applebaum's piece, Friersdorf was defending Weiss. It's almost like a class of commentator who knows that Nazi comparisons won't fly, but think Stalinist or Maoist comparisons will. Andrew Sullivan is a serial offender here.
Its the "Stop comparing disagreements about campus politics to a brutal totalitarian regime" challenge
If you are going to make the claim that campus politics today are equivalent to the Maoist era, you might want to stop and remember that this included state surveillance and persecution of academics. But somehow these comparisons stop short of that. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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