These folks will say this kind of thing then be confused when they learn intellectuals were rounded up during the cultural revolution.

Funny thing is people look back at the cultural revolution and get a little squeamish… but it produced results that returned dividends over the long run. Sending a few million of these assholes on state mandated work tours of impoverished regions and neglected rural areas was able to salvage those of them capable of being humbled and learning some basic humanity. The ones who irredeemable tend to run or fight rather than learning how the other classes live and how to be a decent human being. The current president of China and his own father are an example, they were what the US cold warriors would hold up as heroic political exhiles or dissidents unfairly treated… that is they would have, if they hadn’t come out the other side redder than red.