{"id":955,"date":"2021-01-08T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:05:20","slug":"are-the-woke-reading-from-maos-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/are-the-woke-reading-from-maos-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the woke reading from Mao&#8217;s playbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review a Mexican stout, then discuss Mao&#8217;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 &#8230; there are. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Weaponizing students.\n<li> Standards that are so vague and ever-changing that you can never know if you&#8217;re in or out of favor.\n<li> Overthrowing everything that seems outdated with no idea what you&#8217;re going to replace it with. Cancel culture.\n<li> Rejecting everything old or traditional.\n<li> Struggle sessions = diversity classes.\n<li> Art exists to advance social justice messages. <\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a scary comparison. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17474363\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review a Mexican stout, then discuss Mao&#8217;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 &#8230; there are. Weaponizing students. Standards that are so vague and ever-changing that you can never know if you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/are-the-woke-reading-from-maos-playbook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are the woke reading from Mao&#8217;s playbook?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}