P&C drink and review a Mexican stout, then discuss Mao’s cultural revolution. They review some of the basic history, and then explore whether there are similarities between the cultural revolution and modern wokeness. And in fact … there are.
- Weaponizing students.
- Standards that are so vague and ever-changing that you can never know if you’re in or out of favor.
- Overthrowing everything that seems outdated with no idea what you’re going to replace it with. Cancel culture.
- Rejecting everything old or traditional.
- Struggle sessions = diversity classes.
- Art exists to advance social justice messages.
It’s a scary comparison.
About 4 of those items are modern evangelicalism.
Yes, there are parallels to a lot of things.
For some reason, this was on my feed: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miya-ponsetto-gayle-king-video-black-teen-phone_n_5ff881d9c5b691806c4892e4
I really can’t believe it is a story or wannabe story. Evidently it was on CBS.
They sure ain’t doing a good job of radicalizing the peasants, are they?
They never have, but it’s never stopped them.
In that case you should revise this Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Excerpt: “In late 1924, Mao returned to Shaoshan, perhaps to recuperate from an illness. He found that the peasantry were increasingly restless and some had seized land from wealthy landowners to found communes. This convinced him of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry…”
Another thing you’ll need to get a Maoist movement of any kind going is a Mao. The woke do not have such a figure. Somebody like Trump would come closer to fitting the bill for that than any woke figure that I am aware of.
Honestly, the woke have a unifying person.
Same person that unified the homegrown radicalized terrorists that attacked the capitol: orange bozo.
To some extent Trump does serve as a unifying force for the woke, but he’s certainly not their leader.