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Well from a foreigner's perspective, US is finally getting its own version of Cultural Revolution.
by markus_zhang 2y ago
Well from a foreigner's perspective, US is finally getting its own version of Cultural Revolution.
- sockp0pp3t 2y ago[flagged]
- bytematic 2y agonice account history
- spencerflem 2y agoAre you referring to McCarthyism and the red scare?
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agoThink more recent than that
- spencerflem 2y ago[flagged]
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agoMore recent, but getting warmer.
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- spencerflem 2y agoVery recent then, You must be meaning the one the Democrats were part of then- Classifying any sort of Palestinian aid group as a terrorist organization to strip them of being nonprofits, pressuring schools to expel pro-palestinian protesters? Or the other one the democrats lead- When every occupy wall street leader was arrested and the protesters were gassed by the military?
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoThis subthread gives me hope that maybe the new management isn't so much worse after all.
- spencerflem 2y agoHey don't get it twisted- Every president is a villain but while Obama didn't care about the first or fourth amendment, the current admin doesn't seem to care about anything.
- ljsprague 2y agoIn that case they were "persecuting" communists; today they persecute patriots.
- wyager 2y agoThis is perhaps more analogous to an immune reaction to a(n attempted) Cultural Revolution.
- markus_zhang 2y agoOr a counter-cultural revolution.
- jeltz 2y agoNot really. To an outsider this looks very much like the cultural revolution.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoI think the Democrats are the ones that are into struggle sessions and re-education ...
- kragen 2y agoWe'll see. They were tearing down statues and demanding public self-criticism a few years ago, but that was actually the other side. Shutting down the universities and firing any professor who isn't politically correct is a couple of years in the future; Trump probably has to replace the accreditation system for the universities first. There isn't currently a mechanism for "sending down" suspected subversive thinkers except for deportation. The Red Guards haven't been formed yet, though commuting the sentences of the ringleaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys is a start. (You may not be aware of this, but the Red Guards were over 10 million people.) The news media are still independent, for all that matters. So are almost all of the police, although Trump has said he wants to bring them under his command. So I don't think we're likely to see that kind of widespread mass killing in the next two or three years. The organizational infrastructure for doing it the traditional way, using hand tools, can't be built overnight. Vance's ally Anduril might be able to automate the process with AI-powered surveillance drones, but they won't have enough production capacity for at least three years.
- antifa 2y ago> The news media are still independent, for all that matters. The media has bent the knee to Trump, a meteorologist was fired for critiquing Trump on her private Instagram, and an LATimes article's editors removed the article author's criticisms of Trump. You have to goto YouTube to find people openly critizing Trump.
- glowiefedposter 2y agofreedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences sweaty
- aqsalose 2y agoI think Third Republic France is a more apt comparison. Political fights about religion and content of education, check. Diverging media landscape aligned with party political identity and ideology, check. Major changes to civil service personnel after consequential elections (1879-1884), check.
- ggm 2y agoI don't see the parallels. When are the academics going to be sent to the countryside and where are the self criticism sessions being held?