Ending footbindings? Who cares. He cracked an off color joke that may have actually been a dig at Kissinger.
https://nitter.net/moonlit_misfit/status/1730394235172512244
I’m not really ask knowledgeable on Mao as I am Lenin, or the Chinese Revolution in general Vs the Russian. But wasn’t it kind of known that Mao was personally a bit of a womanizer?
Idk why people get hung up on this, liberals still idolize a guy who had an underaged slave concubine, but then bring up Marx saying the n-word once as some epic own.
man born in victorian times has problematic views on women.
truly shocking.
I mean, yeah. But I don’t wanna pull a “product of their time” schtick. We can just admit that the guy may have been awful personally while making important political contributions. Issue with the founding fathers isn’t that they were personally asshole, their assholery was political in nature. Owning slaves on stolen land isn’t a personal failing.
oh for sure, all i meant is that we’ve got PLENTY of men born a hundred years later who are just as bad or worse (AND they’re not liberating anyone while being shitty), so picking at stuff like this is just asinine
Mao be like “I hate my 30,000 wives”
Even if he was some horrible misogynist, that’s not why people look up to him and study his writings. There isn’t a guy out there thats like, "idk about all this communism stuff, but he certainty had the right idea about women ".
Definitely reads as a dig at Kissinger, the kind of dig you make when a person’s sexual escapades are an open “secret”. Gossip gets around.
The “they will create disasters” part is definitely boomer “hurr hurr wahmens” though, common attitudes and jokes of the 50s that were simply not examined for being the problems that they were. Doesn’t take away from the fact he was progressive on their liberation, progressive on their inclusion in the workforce equally, etc etc. Well ahead of capitalists of his time just as we today are well ahead of capitalists of our time but very likely not without our issues or blindspots that future leftists will criticise.
I fucking hate these “leftists” who have nothing better to do than post and post and post whatever they can to sow division over a few words from a man who died half a fucking century ago. Could not be more useless and counterproductive if they were trying, and I’m sure many of them are.
Why do their inter-left complaints literally always outnumber their posts about actual activism? Like every time, without fail.
Because actual leftism means they have to do something. They should start hitting the gym so they can actually hold their own against the Proud Boys.
They should start hitting the gym so they can actually hold their own against the Proud Boys.
The fact that they’ve made this into a genuine controversy and found reasons to be offended by it proves just how psyopped they are. Otherwise they’d quite literally just shut up and do this.
