Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements
by 6312783123 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:16AM
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Supposedly it's decades long work by the Chinese Communist Party that started in the 1960s and led up to where we are now. I wonder if the Soviet Union was also involved?
"The effects of this brainwashing are shown in the American Left’s adoption of the CCP’s key concepts and nomenclature."
"Today’s common use of the word “progressive” by the radical Left traces its intellectual origin straight to the Marxist-Leninist “dialectical” categorization of people into reactionaries and progressives. It is not from the modern legacy of the American Progressive Movement represented by William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Henry A. Wallace."
"The primary method of Mao’s brainwashing in Yenan was “consciousness raising,” which has become since the 1960s the main strategy of the American Left, especially the radical American feminist movement."
"This was the first time I heard that phrase, which, over the years, moved out of China and on to the streets and fashions of America in the 1960s."
By the way I'm getting a lot of upvotes, and downvotes too for this post. So it's a mixed reaction from the readers of this site.
Here's an article, from what appears to be a reliable source: https://www.hoover.org/research/beijings-woke-propaganda-war...
"The effects of this brainwashing are shown in the American Left’s adoption of the CCP’s key concepts and nomenclature."
"Today’s common use of the word “progressive” by the radical Left traces its intellectual origin straight to the Marxist-Leninist “dialectical” categorization of people into reactionaries and progressives. It is not from the modern legacy of the American Progressive Movement represented by William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Henry A. Wallace."
"The primary method of Mao’s brainwashing in Yenan was “consciousness raising,” which has become since the 1960s the main strategy of the American Left, especially the radical American feminist movement."
"This was the first time I heard that phrase, which, over the years, moved out of China and on to the streets and fashions of America in the 1960s."
By the way I'm getting a lot of upvotes, and downvotes too for this post. So it's a mixed reaction from the readers of this site.