<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alentist</author><text>This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. He also praised Mao’s policies shortly after they caused the worst famine in human history.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;newcriterion.com&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;2003&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;the-hypocrisy-of-noam-chomsky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;newcriterion.com&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;2003&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;the-hypocrisy-of-noam...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>leephillips</author><text>This was aided by Noam Chomsky, who used his considerable influence to cast doubt on the idea that the genocide had happened at all.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>&amp;gt;As described in PBS’s Frontline documentary series,
“Instead of becoming pariahs, the Khmer Rouge continued to play a significant role in Cambodian politics for the next two decades.The Khmer Rouge would likely not have survived without the support of its old patron China and a surprising new ally: the United States. Norodom Sihanouk, now in exile after briefly serving as head of state under the Khmer Rouge, formed a loose coalition with the guerillas to expel the Vietnamese from Cambodia. The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country’s legitimate rulers.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)</title><url>https://openendedsocialstudies.org/2016/06/24/the-khmer-rouge-genocide-in-the-name-of-utopia/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cyph0n</author><text>We’re going to need a reference for this one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leephillips</author><text>This was aided by Noam Chomsky, who used his considerable influence to cast doubt on the idea that the genocide had happened at all.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>&amp;gt;As described in PBS’s Frontline documentary series,
“Instead of becoming pariahs, the Khmer Rouge continued to play a significant role in Cambodian politics for the next two decades.The Khmer Rouge would likely not have survived without the support of its old patron China and a surprising new ally: the United States. Norodom Sihanouk, now in exile after briefly serving as head of state under the Khmer Rouge, formed a loose coalition with the guerillas to expel the Vietnamese from Cambodia. The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country’s legitimate rulers.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)</title><url>https://openendedsocialstudies.org/2016/06/24/the-khmer-rouge-genocide-in-the-name-of-utopia/</url></story>