> I dislike the sensationalist title, which is not really supported in the article. > As the historian Mi Hedu observes in his 1993 book, “The Red Guard Genera

> I dislike the sensationalist title, which is not really supported in the article. > As the historian Mi Hedu observes in his 1993 book, “The Red Guard Generation,” students at the August 1st School “compared one another on the basis of whose father had a higher rank, whose father rode in a better car. Some would say, ‘Obey whoever’s father has the highest position.’ ” When the Cultural Revolution began, in 1966, Beijing students who were zilaihong (“born red”) promoted a slogan: “If the father is a hero, the son is also a hero; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard.” Red Guards sought to cleanse the capital of opposition, to make it “as pure and clean as crystal,” they said. He is part of a generation that it's literally called "born red", I've heard that term before, I thought it was an analogy to being "born in Purple".