Posted on 02/04/2023 7:11:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “today’s woke revolution” has striking similarities to China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s under Chairman Mao and “we do have our own Red Guard here, but they do their rampaging on Twitter.”
Maher stated, “Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT, are there any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s? And it wrote back, how long do you have? Because, again, in China, we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page-one rewrite of humans. Mao ordered his citizens to throw off the four olds: old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits. So, your whole life went in the garbage overnight, no biggie. And those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the Red Guard, who went around the country putting dunce caps on people…who didn’t take to being a new kind of mortal being. A lot of pointing and shaming went on — oh, and about a million dead — and the only way to survive was to plead insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical, then apologize and thank the state for the chance to see what a piece of shit you are, and of course, submit to re-education, or as we call it here in America, freshman orientation.”
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Yes, exactly. Mao great leap forward. Good heads up.
“I have no doubt. In fact, they’d enthusiastically watch us as we’re hauled away”.
They’d smirk and cheer.
Mao sought to enforce communist dogma and to rid the nation of the so-called “Four Olds;” old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.
Sound familiar?
Red August of Madness
Those people were labeled enemies of the people, placed on busy corners and everyone passing by was required to curse them and spit on them.
After that treatment for a while, most just got insane.
This is a good example of the ‘useful idiot’ to which Lenin makes reference.
The professors and intelligentsia types are for the revolution and then....
are the exact ones who become disillusioned with the revolution once they see what it means (killing).
They become anti-revolutionary risks.
So they have to be murdered en masse.
This was done in Cambodia (Killing Fields) to anyone remotely part of the old system.
The Mao “Struggle Sessions” are essentially now taking place on university campi with anyone displaying ‘microaggressive behavior’ (not racist but perceived to be racist by the POC victim) is force to openly apologize but the apology is never accepted so they must resign. Careers destroyed.
What happens on the campus today will happen at the workplace soon thereafter and now companies are hiring $100k a-year DIL (Diversity and Inclusion) kommisars to enforce the latest ‘rules.’
The ‘rules’ of behavior are always shifting to create unease and to empower the enforcers. Obama said he was opposed to ‘gay marriage’ when running for office but to say such a thing today may mean loss of job and career.
Essentially free speech is ending in America.
Those who rooted it on - the 60s communist radicals - will be the first destroyed by the children of the revolution.
We have seen that some of those people who would cheer when they haul you away are so called conservative freepers.
Proof? Recall how the branch covidians on this site treated the folks who expressed the didn’t believe the covid lie, or didn’t want the vaccine?
Fear manipulates a lot of people.
Yep. It was done quickly in China though. No incrementalism.
I have thought for some time that the 20-30 somethings in the USA are the new Red Guard.
I think Maher has dual personalities... one is a flaming illogical antichristian liberal, while,the second personality if a center of the road lefty with occasional bouts of semi-clarity
TomAYto, TomAHto...
I did not say it didn’t.
Nice to see some leftie dope wake up a little.
I wouldn't trust my government now to administer anything. The purpose of government in their minds today is the furtherance of its powers, control, wealth, and to make more and bigger government. Total authoritarianism.
Our health and lifespan is theirs to play "kick the Walmart peasant" games.
The original roll out of the polio vaccine was sketchy at best. If they tried that today the lawsuits would have been crazy.
“The Four Pests campaign (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài), was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. “
Guess what happened? No sparrows to eat the insects. Genius!
Bill Maher’s been making sense for a while now. And stronger and better than making sense? Liberals can hear him.
While they can’t hear us - even if we’re saying the same things...
I didn’t care for Maher’s interview with Netanyahu - interpreted as verging on antisemitism - but it turns out Maher is half Catholic and half Jewish. And the interview? Differences with Israeli political choices.
I am about the same age. I remember all the shots we had to get. It was a trust, but that trust is gone forever.
I had to get a tetanus shot last year, but I asked the nurse if I could see the vial’s label. I don’t trust them anymore.
Yea. Catch up Bill. It started when the left was allowed to cancel conservative speakers on campus. The Democrat party and their minions are devoted followers of the CCP.
I tell people it does, by implication. The section of the Constitution on letters of marque and reprisal mean nothing if individuals outside of government do not have the right to own any and all military hardware. Anything less is just another 2A infringement.
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