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Good Little Maoists<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
S<\/span>ometimes societies just go batshit crazy. For ten years, 1966 to 1976, China slid into the chaotic maw of Mao Zedong\u2019s \u201ccultural revolution.\u201d A youth army called the Red Guard was given license to terrorize authorities all over the nation \u2014 teachers, scientists, government officials, really just about anyone in charge of anything. They destroyed lives and families and killed quite a few of their victims. They paralyzed the country with their persecutions against \u201cbourgeois elements\u201d and \u201ccapitalist roaders,\u201d reaching as deep into the top leadership as Deng Xiaoping, who was paraded in public wearing a dunce-cap, but eventually was able to put an end to all the insanity after Mao\u2019s death.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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America\u2019s own cultural revolution has worked differently. It was mostly limited to the hermetically-sealed hot-house world of the universities, where new species of hierophants and mystagogues were busy constructing a crypto-political dogma aimed at redefining status arrangements among the various diverse ethnic and sexual \u201cmulti-cultures\u201d of the land.<\/p>\n

There is no American Mao, but there are millions of good little Maoists all over America bent on persecuting anyone who departs from a party line that now dominates the bubble of campus life. It\u2019s a weird home-grown mixture of Puritan witch-hunting, racial paranoia, and sexual hysteria, and it comes loaded with a lexicon of jargon \u2014 \u201cmicro-aggression,\u201d \u201ctrigger warnings,\u201d \u201cspeech codes,\u201d etc \u2014 designed to enforce uniformity in thinking, and to punish departures from it.<\/p>\n

At a moment in history when the US is beset by epochal problems of economy, energy, ecology, and foreign relations, campus life is preoccupied with handwringing over the hurt feelings of every imaginable ethnic and sexual group and just as earnestly with the suppression of ideological trespassers who don\u2019t go along with the program of exorcisms.<\/p>\n

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Good Little Maoists Sometimes societies just go batshit crazy. For ten years, 1966 to 1976, China slid into the chaotic maw of Mao Zedong\u2019s \u201ccultural revolution.\u201d A youth army called the Red Guard was given license to terrorize authorities all over the nation \u2014 teachers, scientists, government officials, really just about anyone in charge of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5243,120,130,5758,449,10419,10417,10411,10418,8484],"class_list":["post-14062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bias","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-college","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-mao-zedong","tag-maoists","tag-prejudice","tag-red-guard","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14063,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062\/revisions\/14063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}