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
Mao made a “take my wife, please” joke in the 70’s?
See, when he said “women hold up half the sky” he meant that quite literally, China has a giant pile of women that reaches up into the heavens. It’s a serious problem.
And it only takes like 30,000 women to do it, so there’s a bunch left over.
And what are they gonna do? Be shoppin?
“I can excuse misogyny but I draw the line at boomer jokes”
If anyone is wondering about what’s going on with some of the replies, there was a massively influential biography titled “The Private Life of Chairman Mao” that depicted Mao as basically a Genghis Khan level sexual predator and sold very well in the anglosphere. That it wound up being completely discredited as a sensationalist fabrication even by American neoliberal historians is of no consequence to its legacy among internet reactionaries.
I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it’s right his methods, and while it’s surprisingly not Montefiore (i guess not enough pedophilia accussations for him), but dude named Li Zhisui, even his wiki is pretty much telling:
After emigrating to the United States, he wrote a biography of Mao entitled The Private Life of Chairman Mao, in which he described Mao as selfish, cruel, having a craving for young women, and poor personal hygiene.
After emigrating to the United States
I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it’s right his methods,
It would’ve been incredibly funny if Semenbag Monsanto concidered himself a “China expert” alongside being a “Russia expert”, but I suppose he didn’t want to be completely discredited among actual historians as a sensationalist quack fanfiction writer
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.
