(Watching 20/20 tonight and the John Stossel report on supposed freedom of speech on University campuses made me think of this).
China's Cultural Revolution was a strange phenomenon. Mao didn't like opening to the West and was probably afraid of what it would do to his commie regime, so he enlisted commie organizations (mostly student groups) all over the country to make everyone more "chinese" and to expose "counter-revolutionaries". Things like western music and clothes were banned. That stupid little commie hat became the standard. Then "Mao's little red book" with pithy little commie catch phrases was distributed. And you had darn well better have one on you if you knew what was good for you. People who were labeled "counter-revolutionaries" were sent to "re-education camps" (Mao and Clinton work from the same book of euphamisms, I think). The whole thing was an exercise in Super Political Correctness.
These college kids held mock trials, ruined careers, and destroyed lives for some twisted ideal that had nothing to do with anything except intimidating others and suppressing dissent and keeping Mao in power. Like good little automatons, they did whatever they were supposed to with revolutionary zeal. Rallying and chanting and singing commie songs, spreading propoganda and menacing anyone who might even harbor the slightest hint of dissent, the Cultural Revolution was wildly succesful.
If you saw Stossel's report, you know where this is headed. The Cultural Revolution is now here in America! Looking at the faces of those young people who bragged about, and even reveled in, shouting down speakers with different points of view scared the bejeezus out of me. The radical feminists shouting down Stossel (RAPE IS NOT, TEE-VEE HYPE!) was probably the most disturbing (was that chant spontaneous? Didn't seem like it to me). Stossel was just there to ask questions about the code of conduct. Guess even asking questions is taboo.
These kids are definitely the fodder for the New World Order. Dedicated little Socialists without a thought in their head, all too willing to go with "the crowd", these little MTV-addled nitwits are voting age and will buy any bill of goods that fits their twisted little world view. They have ringleaders and they form commitees and they enforce their own version of Political Correctness with a disturbing group-mentality fervor which borders on a pathological. They're every bit the automatons that Mao's "revolutionaries" were.
The heck of it is, they're winning. They aren't burning books just yet, but its not exactly a stretch for them to take that last step. The codes of conduct on most of America's campuses are already something the Nazis would have been proud of.
Chairman Mao must be laughing his keister off right now. I wonder form the updated version of the "little red book" will take.
China's Cultural Revolution was a strange phenomenon. Mao didn't like opening to the West and was probably afraid of what it would do to his commie regime, so he enlisted commie organizations (mostly student groups) all over the country to make everyone more "chinese" and to expose "counter-revolutionaries". Things like western music and clothes were banned. That stupid little commie hat became the standard. Then "Mao's little red book" with pithy little commie catch phrases was distributed. And you had darn well better have one on you if you knew what was good for you. People who were labeled "counter-revolutionaries" were sent to "re-education camps" (Mao and Clinton work from the same book of euphamisms, I think). The whole thing was an exercise in Super Political Correctness.
These college kids held mock trials, ruined careers, and destroyed lives for some twisted ideal that had nothing to do with anything except intimidating others and suppressing dissent and keeping Mao in power. Like good little automatons, they did whatever they were supposed to with revolutionary zeal. Rallying and chanting and singing commie songs, spreading propoganda and menacing anyone who might even harbor the slightest hint of dissent, the Cultural Revolution was wildly succesful.
If you saw Stossel's report, you know where this is headed. The Cultural Revolution is now here in America! Looking at the faces of those young people who bragged about, and even reveled in, shouting down speakers with different points of view scared the bejeezus out of me. The radical feminists shouting down Stossel (RAPE IS NOT, TEE-VEE HYPE!) was probably the most disturbing (was that chant spontaneous? Didn't seem like it to me). Stossel was just there to ask questions about the code of conduct. Guess even asking questions is taboo.
These kids are definitely the fodder for the New World Order. Dedicated little Socialists without a thought in their head, all too willing to go with "the crowd", these little MTV-addled nitwits are voting age and will buy any bill of goods that fits their twisted little world view. They have ringleaders and they form commitees and they enforce their own version of Political Correctness with a disturbing group-mentality fervor which borders on a pathological. They're every bit the automatons that Mao's "revolutionaries" were.
The heck of it is, they're winning. They aren't burning books just yet, but its not exactly a stretch for them to take that last step. The codes of conduct on most of America's campuses are already something the Nazis would have been proud of.
Chairman Mao must be laughing his keister off right now. I wonder form the updated version of the "little red book" will take.
. When you have a bunch of people who can't get real jobs (not referring to you, Glenn) trying to put the world into perspective for a group of people who only two years prior discovered what's between their legs, you can't expect much. It's the blind leading the blind. Fortunately, many regain their sight when they leave.