Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler may be the most infamous villain in world history. He perpetrated the Holocaust, unleashed a reign of totalitarian oppression over most of Europe, and initiated the most destructive conflict the world has ever seen.
Ian Kershaw, a distinguished historian widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on Hitler and the Nazi regime, has <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/03/hitler-nemesis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to him as &#8220;the embodiment of modern political evil.&#8221; The accuracy of that assessment is showcased by the fact that partisans of all political stripes (though it is especially favored by the Left to refer to anything even remotely Right-of-center) use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-trump-is-a-nazi-thats-not-going-to-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparisons to Hitler</a> and his ideology as the ultimate slander against their opponents.
In fact, as many have pointed out, the comparison has become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/facts-ep-3-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so ubiquitous</a> that in many ways it has lost its effectiveness as a political epithet. Additionally, to rely on a single historical reference to embody evil diminishes public awareness of other psychopathic despots (especially Left-wing ones) who have rampaged through history, even in the last century.
So, here is a non-exhaustive list of tyrants of the 20th Century who we can reference besides Hitler.
<h4>Vladimir Lenin</h4>
Vladimir Lenin orchestrated the first, but by no means last, successful communist revolution and forged what would become the Soviet Union in a tide of violence and repression.
The Bolsheviks <a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/october-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> the October Revolution of 1917 to overthrow the Provisional Government of Russia, which had ruled the country since Tsar Nicholas II abdicated during the February Revolution earlier in the year. The communists quickly seized control of Petrograd (today St. Petersburg) and Moscow, but the country soon descended into a bloody and chaotic <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Civil-War" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil war</a> as anti-communist factions — ranging from moderate socialists to monarchists to anarchists and separatists — resisted the new government.
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On the orders of Lenin and other top Bolsheviks, soldiers of the newly formed Red Army seized food, property, and other valuables from peasants in order to support the war effort, creating famine and destitution throughout large swathes of the country.
Lenin oversaw the creation of <a href="https://history.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/20/whats-the-context-20-december-1917-formation-of-the-cheka-the-first-soviet-security-and-intelligence-agency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Cheka</a>, the Soviet Union&#8217;s first secret police, and during the civil war it carried out mass arrests, torture and executions in order to suppress any political opponents of the new regime. The Cheka also founded and ran the USSR&#8217;s infamous prison labor system — the gulags.
Lenin also endorsed the murder of the former tsar, his wife, and their five children in July 1918 as anti-communist forces approached the location where they were being held prisoner by the Bolsheviks.
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The Russian Civil War lasted more than 5 years and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Civil-War" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused</a> the deaths of up to 10 million people — five times the number of Russians who died in World War I.
Though his reign over the nascent Soviet Union was relatively short, a little over 6 years, Lenin&#8217;s ruthlessness provided a blueprint for Left-wing dictators who rose to power throughout the century, most infamously his successor.
<h4>Joseph Stalin</h4>
Joseph Stalin&#8217;s rise to power in the aftermath of Lenin&#8217;s death in 1924 foreshadowed his own brutal tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. He <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Stalin">supplanted</a> and eventually exiled Lenin&#8217;s preferred successor, Leon Trotsky, and had several of his other opponents demoted and replaced by allies.
Once he secured his position as leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin embarked on a program of collectivization, the forced consolidation of individual farms into large, state-controlled collectives. Along with this policy, Stalin <a href="https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1929-2/collectivization/collectivization-texts/stalin-on-the-liquidation-of-the-kulak/">called</a> for the elimination of prosperous peasants known as kulaks &#8220;as a class.&#8221; Though these farmers were rarely much better off than their neighbors, Stalin designated them as class enemies, and the new secret police, the NKVD, carried out mass arrests and deportations of the kulaks, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Soviet collectivization of agriculture under Stalin also caused a massive famine that afflicted Ukraine and southern Russia from 1930 to 1933. Known as <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor">the Holodomor</a> in Ukraine, the Great Soviet Famine killed an <a href="https://www.nber.org/digest/202110/disproportionate-death-ukrainians-soviet-great-famine">estimated</a> 10 million people, of which roughly 4 million were Ukrainians. The legislatures of dozens of countries, including the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/435">United States</a>, recognize the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Though he had dealt with Trotsky (eventually having him assassinated in Mexico in 1940), Stalin still feared internal opposition to his rule, causing him to instigate <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Purge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Purge</a> in 1936.
Stalin once again deployed the NKVD to hunt down and terrorize his enemies, real and imagined. Dozens of high-ranking Soviet officials, including several original Bolsheviks who had helped Lenin seize power in 1917, were found guilty in show trials and executed for supposedly conspiring to overthrow Stalin.
The purge unleashed a wave of paranoia throughout the country, and suspicion soon extended to the military, ethnic minorities, and even the general population. By the time Stalin declared in 1938 that the internal threat to the Soviet Union had been suppressed, at least <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/great-purge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">700,000 people</a> had died.
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As a result of the Great Purge, the gulag system founded under Lenin exploded into the infamous &#8220;Gulag Archipelago&#8221; as more and more people were accused of being counter-revolutionaries. Of the estimated 17 million people who <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-b2adacb992004f4aaa4c739ec3f4629a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were sent</a> to the gulags between 1930 and 1953, between 1.2 and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> in the camps.
The Soviet Union invaded Poland along with Nazi Germany in September 1939 as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which facilitated the partition of Eastern Europe between the two countries and their cooperation until the German invasion of Russia in 1941. Stalin <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/katyn-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the mass execution of Polish prisoners-of-war who had been captured during the invasion, and NKVD agents killed over 20,000 Poles during the Katyn Massacre in April and May 1940.
Stalin continued his totalitarian policies during World War II, in which anyone accused of questioning his leadership was severely punished and collaborators with the Nazis were killed or sent to the gulags. Arrests of political dissidents, carried out by a succession of increasingly monstrous NKVD directors, continued right up to Stalin&#8217;s death.
After he rose to power in the wake of Stalin&#8217;s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev <a href="https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/khrushchevs-secret-speech-cult-personality-and-its-consequences-delivered-twentieth-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> Stalin&#8217;s barbarity and embarked on a campaign of de-Stalinization to dismantle his policies. Estimates on exactly how many people during the Stalin era vary greatly, with most historians placing the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/joseph-stalin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death toll</a> between 6 million and 20 million.
<h4>Mao Zedong</h4>
In 1949, the Chinese communists led by Mao Zedong — after a decades-long civil war — forced the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek to retreat to Taiwan, cementing communist control over the Chinese mainland.
After a period of relative openness designed to bait opponents of the regime into publicly criticizing the CCP, Mao <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-silence-that-preceded-chinas-great-leap-into-famine-51898077/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 to root out anyone who opposed communist rule or collectivization. Between half a million and 2 million people were arrested during the campaign, and hundreds of thousands died due to starvation or ill-treatment during captivity.
Mao&#8217;s most destructive program was <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/Great-Leap-Forward" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Leap Forward</a>, which was intended to transform China from an agriculture-based economy to an industrial powerhouse that could compete with the Soviet Union and the West. The central government set unattainable production quotas for both industry and agriculture, causing lower-level bureaucrats overseeing the programs to take more food from peasants and overwork factory laborers. Out of fear of being labeled anti-communist or, more importantly, anti-Mao, many officials refused to report failures and fabricated data to meet the quotas.
Anyone who opposed the Great Leap Forward could be arrested, tortured, conscripted into forced labor battalions, or summarily executed by the communist overseers. The program was a complete economic disaster, plunging tens of millions of Chinese into grinding poverty.
Because the cadres didn&#8217;t report food shortages and took more food from peasants to fill the outlandish quotas, famine broke out across China. The Great Chinese Famine lasted from 1959 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the worst famines in human history. Scholars continue to debate the exact death toll, but <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/#:~:text=Extent%20of%20famine&amp;text=More%20detailed%20later%20studies%20came,totals%20closer%20to%2040%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">most estimates</a> fall between 15 and 55 million deaths from the famine alone.
It wasn&#8217;t until 1981, 5 years after Mao&#8217;s death, that the CCP officially <a href="https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/resolution-certain-questions-history-our-party-founding-peoples-republic-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> that the famine had been primarily caused by policies implemented during the Great Leap Forward.
Much like Stalin, Mao eventually became paranoid about the threat of internal threats to his absolute power. He insisted that capitalists and conservatives had infiltrated Chinese society and called on young people to purge the country of any elements that might threaten communism, launching the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Cultural-Revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural Revolution</a>. Units of Red Guards, usually comprised of university students, targeted local government officials, teachers, community elders, and even parents who were accused of not being sufficiently dedicated to Chairman Mao.
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Though struggle sessions, in which someone accused of disloyalty to communism was forced to admit their crimes and subjected to public ridicule and abuse, had been a tactic used by the CCP to force ideological conformity for decades, the practice became infamous during the Cultural Revolution. Heretofore committed Chinese communists were suddenly accused of not being ideologically pure enough or being secret capitalists, hauled out into a public space, and harangued by their neighbors. They were most often imprisoned afterward, but in many instances they were executed by the government or killed on the spot by the mob.
Massacres of suspected traitors took place across China, and in the southern province of Guangxi hundreds of instances of cannibalism were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/world/a-tale-of-red-guards-and-cannibals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Millions were imprisoned or persecuted by the Red Guards, driving thousands to suicide. Overall, between 500,000 and 2 million people died as a result of the Cultural Revolution.
Much like Stalin&#8217;s Great Purge, the Cultural Revolution served to cement Mao&#8217;s position as the undisputed leader of the country.
By the time Mao died in 1976, an <a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> 65 million people had died as a result of his regime of terror and subjugation.
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are all synonymous with communist brutality in the 20th century. Each of them displayed just as much cruelty, ruthlessness, and disregard for human life as Hitler did during his vicious domination of Europe. Though references to Stalin and Mao are made in political discourse, they pale in comparison to those accusing someone or an idea of being Hitler-esque. And the crimes of these men deserve just as much scrutiny and public awareness as those of Hitler and the Nazis. More frequent references to these despots not only phases out the tired Hitler trope, but it can also help point out the horrendous atrocities carried out in the name of communist utopia.

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Tired Of Comparing Your Political Enemies To Hitler? Here Are Some Other Evil Despots Worth Mentioning – Part I

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It used to be that when someone made a statement, then made another statement that implied something completely different, we had a name for that. We called it a contradiction. And it wasn&#8217;t considered a good thing. Not too long ago, contradictions could end political careers in this country. When Tim Murphy said publicly that he was pro-life, but then privately told a woman to kill her baby, he had to resign from Congress. Al Franken met the same fate, after he bought into the #MeToo hysteria, then fell into its crosshairs himself.
But a lot&#8217;s changed in the few years since Tim Murphy and Al Franken were forced out of Congress. All of a sudden, contradictions are everywhere, particularly in the political world. The only way to ensure world peace is to fund a war, foreign policy experts tell us. We&#8217;re a sanctuary city or state, but we don&#8217;t want any more illegal migrants, say Gavin Newsom and Eric Adams. Men can turn into women, gender studies professors shriek. Euthanasia is healthcare, the Canadian government insists. All of these statements are contradictions, but you&#8217;re hearing them all the time now.
In revolutionary periods, this is nothing new. Mao even wrote an essay entitled &#8220;On Contradiction&#8221; a century ago. Mao understood well that contradiction drives social change. Maybe the most important contradiction that revolutionaries must embrace, Mao argued, is the relationship between construction and destruction. On their face, these two concepts are polar opposites. Tearing something down means ruining it. Building something means creating it. If you want to build something new, you lay a foundation and get to work. You don&#8217;t wreck what you have. That&#8217;s how the bourgeoisie saw it. 
But Mao didn&#8217;t see it that way. A half-century ago, Mao famously explained, &#8220;There is no construction without destruction.&#8221; In other words, there&#8217;s a logical relationship between the two concepts. Creating a new society — one totally unlike whatever came before — requires wrecking the old society. Creating new symbols requires wrecking the old symbols. 
Mao&#8217;s teachings led to, of course, tens of millions of deaths, the destruction of historic artifacts, and mass starvation. The last thing you would ever want our political leaders in this country to do is follow his ideology and try to emulate it. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. This weekend in Albany, the capital of New York state, we saw maybe the clearest example in recent history of both construction and destruction happening simultaneously. Under the cover of darkness, at 5:30 in the morning, the city removed a statue of Revolutionary War hero and U.S. senator Philip Schuyler. And at the very moment that workers took Schuyler&#8217;s statue away, the so-called &#8220;progress Pride flag&#8221; was waving in the background, for the first time in Albany&#8217;s history. Here&#8217;s what it looked like.
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One of the defining images of our era
City Hall removes Revolutionary War hero General Philip Schuyler
Pride flags wave in the background <a href="https://t.co/0hkhl4bHL8">pic.twitter.com/0hkhl4bHL8</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1667755085936447488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Notice the multiple Pride flags flying proudly as the statue is hoisted away, including the brand-new nonbinary/BIPOC/trans flag. 
Now, if that seems like a carefully engineered juxtaposition, it is. It&#8217;s choreographed to deliver a very clear message. Mao&#8217;s disciples in the New York state government know that if they want their new flag to have any kind of legitimacy, then Philip Schulyer&#8217;s statue can&#8217;t remain. You can&#8217;t have construction without destruction. If you want a revolution, you can&#8217;t introduce a new idol without erasing the one that came before. So that&#8217;s exactly what the local government did, as explicitly as they possibly could have done it.
If you&#8217;re not trying to engineer a revolution — if you&#8217;re just an average person living in New York, with reasonable political views — then none of this really makes sense. What was wrong with that statue, exactly? As far as we can tell, no one ever bothered to ask a significant number of New Yorkers that question. No one ever ran a poll on this, at least not one that we could find. There was certainly no statewide referendum on whether people actually wanted Philip Schuyler&#8217;s statue removed. 
A few bureaucrats in New York just decided to do it a few years ago, and this weekend, they cut through the red tape and did it.
A local news station did conduct a man-on-the-street-style interview with a couple of residents to get their perspective. None of them could explain why this statue was being removed, even the people who said they supported removing it couldn’t explain why:
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Yes, a century-old historic artifact memorializing a Revolutionary War hero was not only taken down, it was taken down at the behest of a group of teenagers. The primary reason, as we heard in the clip, is that the absence of the statue will make city hall more &#8220;welcoming.&#8221; But welcome for who? If the standard is that any &#8220;unwelcoming&#8221; statue needs to go, then why exactly can&#8217;t we destroy the monument of George Floyd that sits outside city hall in Newark?
&#8220;But George Floyd didn&#8217;t own slaves,&#8221; you might say. That&#8217;s true. All George Floyd ever did was break into a woman&#8217;s home with five other people and hold a gun to her chest. And then, after getting out of prison, all George Floyd did was take enough opioids and meth to kill a horse, before trying to rob a store and fighting with several police officers. 
Despite all that, you&#8217;re not allowed to even criticize the George Floyd statue. You&#8217;ll lose your job if you do. Under the new rules, George Floyd&#8217;s statue is &#8220;welcoming.&#8221; The Revolutionary War general is &#8220;unwelcoming.&#8221; Understood? Probably not, but then you aren’t supposed to understand. Part of the point behind these arbitrary decisions is that they make no logical or moral sense. You are meant to go along with it whether you understand or not. We might ask “why?” but The Powers That Be will treat us like we’re children and they&#8217;re our impatient parents: “Because I said so,” they respond.
It&#8217;s all so contrived. Philip Schuyler is an iconic figure of the revolutionary era. He&#8217;s one of the reasons this country exists today. Multiple towns and forts are named after him in New York. And curiously, no one had a problem with him until very recently. Ten years ago, in an article, the Albany Times Union described Schuyler this way: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Philip Schuyler was a leading American statesman and a key general in the American Revolution who served at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga. He was named a representative to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia and an adviser to Gen. George Washington, who stayed at Schuyler&#8217;s mansion in Albany.&#8221;</blockquote>
The Times Union went on to describe Schuyler as:
<blockquote>&#8220;instrumental in the victory of the American colonists at the Battle of Saratoga in the fall of 1777, a turning point of the Revolutionary War. Residents of Albany, fearful that their city might be occupied by British soldiers, instead celebrated an unexpected victory at Saratoga. It was the first major win for the colonists and the residents of Albany rang church bells, fired cannons, roasted an ox and gathered around a large bonfire. Schuyler returned to the city of his birth as a hero.&#8221;</blockquote>
You can read that whole article. It&#8217;s still on the Times Union&#8217;s website, from 2013. There&#8217;s not a single mention of slavery or slaves in the entire piece. Guess how the Times Union describes Schuyler now? Here&#8217;s a recent article from the paper, from this year. 
<blockquote>&#8220;While noted as a politician and Revolutionary War hero, Schuyler enslaved over a dozen people at his Saratoga and Albany homes.&#8221; </blockquote>
The Times Union of 2023 goes on to cite — and this is not a joke — a report by five high schoolers who say that Schuyler is a bad man, and his statue has to be removed. That&#8217;s the report you heard referenced in that news clip, as well.
Here&#8217;s how the Times Union describes the findings of these high school students:
<blockquote>&#8220;The report, titled, &#8216;What To Do with Phil? — A 2022 Report from the Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute,&#8217; was created by five Albany High School students who met between October 2021 and June with two adult facilitators. While the report notes Schuyler&#8217;s accomplishments as a Revolutionary War general and politician, his legacy is still marked by owning human beings, it says.&#8221; </blockquote>
This is also the report that the Albany government relied on to justify removing the statue.
Facile does not begin to describe this. In the 18th century, no one had the same attitudes towards slavery that we do now — even the people who opposed it. Which relatively few people did back then. It’s not surprising that a bunch of dumb, arrogant kids would lack the proper historical perspective and think themselves qualified to pass moral judgments on historical figures who lived 250 years ago. But that’s where adults are supposed to step in. The problem is that there aren’t very many adults left in this country.
What&#8217;s really going on here is that Schuyler — like Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, and all the other historical figures who&#8217;ve had their monuments destroyed — is a hero of a different nation. One that the city of Albany considers to be a foreign enemy. And they know they have to erase him if they want their revolution to succeed.
The Biden administration understands this as well. Look at this grotesque display currently hanging at the White House:
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Today, the People&#39;s House – your house – sends a clear message to the country and to the world.
America is a nation of pride. <a href="https://t.co/ZZS9oTpDww">pic.twitter.com/ZZS9oTpDww</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1667715777145847808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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That’s a Pride flag hanging on the White House, in between two American flags. There are similar displays all over the country, at 30 Rock and so on, but putting this flag at the White House, just like the flag at Albany City Hall, has particular implications. Most conservatives are saying that it&#8217;s horrific and evil for the White House to not only fly the Pride flag but to give it a place of primacy in between the two American flags. It is, of course, both of those things, but what they don&#8217;t understand is that the White House is also properly representing its own nation, which is not our nation. We are two nations in one. There is the old United States that conservatives still cling to and cherish, and there&#8217;s a new country with its own flag, its own traditions, its own heroes and foundational myths.
That&#8217;s the nation that the Biden regime, the media, academia, Hollywood all speak to and represent. Why do you think the city of New York took down Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s statue? Liberals used to love him. He was one of the greatest presidents this country ever had. He broke up the big monopolies. He was well-read. He saved the middle class. He established national parks. He was an explorer and a pioneer. They took down Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s statue in New York for a specific reason — which was to replace it. Instead of Teddy Roosevelt, New York recently put up a horned statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
That&#8217;s now happening, at scale. The nation we had before is being replaced. It&#8217;s not just the demographics that are changing. The activists who are leading this revolution, like all totalitarians, understand that to take full control, they need to erase our shared history. They&#8217;re executing their plan right in front of us, as obviously as they possibly can. While conservatives are debating the proper positioning of the American flag in relation to the Pride flag at the White House, the government is going out in the middle of the night and destroying the symbols they don&#8217;t like. They&#8217;re not asking your opinion on it. They&#8217;re just doing it. 
With that in mind, it&#8217;s not hard to wonder: What else will they take away before you even realize it? A lot more than statues. Soon the government may be able to kidnap your children if you don&#8217;t subscribe to the cult of gender ideology. That&#8217;s an actual bill in California right now. They’ll label you a child abuser and likely put you in prison for wrong-think, so the state can raise your child. That&#8217;s the ultimate goal of this push for &#8220;inclusion,&#8221; which of course is fundamentally about excluding anyone with traditional views (and in particular religious views). The totalitarians running the government, like all totalitarians throughout history, are obsessed with using their power to make future generations subservient to their rule. That&#8217;s the reason they&#8217;re sponsoring &#8220;Pride parades&#8221; that expose children to deviant sexual fetishes. That&#8217;s the reason they&#8217;re destroying and replacing everything they can.
It took the single deadliest famine in world history to stop Mao. What will it take to stop the revolution that&#8217;s taking place right now in this country? The longer this goes on — the longer sane people stay quiet and watch as all this happens — the more likely it is that, unfortunately, we&#8217;re going to find out.

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New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah Jones tried to outgrievance a self-proclaimed survivor of the Chinese cultural revolution during a debate about &#8220;American exceptionalism&#8221; on Sunday.
Jones, the lead writer of the controversial revisionist education titled &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; burst onto the political scene in 2019 with the 1619 project. However, her work has been widely criticized, and on Sunday, Jones took heat from debate opponent Xi Van Fleet after Jones claimed the &#8220;very presence&#8221; of black people is the &#8220;greatest rebuke&#8221; to American exceptionalism.
&#8220;Yourself and I, an immigrant from China with 200 borrowed dollars in my pocket when I arrived more than 30 yrs ago, are the proof of American Exceptionalism,&#8221; Van Fleet responded.
Van Fleet went viral two years ago after delivering an impassioned speech to a Virginia school board claiming CRT is rooted in cultural Marxism and warned Americans the communist subversion happening in the United States classroom mirrors the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which divided China&#8217;s population by class instead of race.
&#8220;Natural rights is unique to American founding,&#8221; Van Fleet said in response to Jones asking for specifics. &#8220;Bc of it we were able to abolish slavery, Jim Crow, anti-Chinese laws … to allow individuals to succeed. What is not unique to America is slavery, which still exists today. Ppl fighting for human rights in China are jailed by CCP.&#8221;
Jones did not deny natural rights &#8220;may have been unique&#8221; but argued one-fifth of the population was enslaved and without such rights during America&#8217;s foundation.
&#8220;Further, you do not think protesters in the US face state violence and arrest? You think the US has no political prisoners?&#8221; Jones asked, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid your vision of America does not match the reality.&#8221;
Van Fleet denounced the idea that her view of America is &#8220;not a vision.&#8221;
&#8220;Mine is &#8216;lived experience&#8217; under the enslavement of Communism, freedom in America, and the current Woke Revolution aiming to undo America,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Black Americans are enslaved no more thanks to the persevering principles and humanity of this country.&#8221;
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Define woke revolution.
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In her own experience, Van Fleet has said living in America is the &#8220;biggest privilege&#8221; after emigrating to the United States in 1986 when she fled Mao&#8217;s Cultural Revolution, which he launched in 1966 until his death in 1976. Reports of the total number who reportedly died during the revolution claim up to 80 millions lives were taken during Mao&#8217;s rule.
&#8220;I appreciate EVERYONE who participated in the debate yesterday about American Exceptionalism, natural rights, slavery, and the 1619 Project,&#8221; Van Fleet said on Twitter. &#8220;The author should be challenged by us since the mainstream media no longer does its job.&#8221;
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I appreciate EVERYONE who participated in the debate yesterday about American Exceptionalism, natural rights, slavery, and the 1619 Project. The author should be challenged by us since the mainstream media no longer does its job. <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConceptualJames</a> <a href="https://t.co/t9SDv2wbPj">https://t.co/t9SDv2wbPj</a>
&mdash; Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) <a href="https://twitter.com/XVanFleet/status/1630196939781226497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Historians across the political spectrum have criticized the “1619 Project,” claiming it contains serious factual errors, including the premise that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
A Daily Wire investigative <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1619-project-creator-raked-in-1m-last-year-for-college-speeches-on-inequality">report</a> last month showed Jones made in 2022 more than $1.2 million from dozens of private and public education institutions after delivering over 30 speeches condemning America and shaming her audiences for belonging to “one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world.”
Luke Rosiak contributed to this report.

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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> blasted woke revolutionaries who think they can change human nature during his show Friday, drawing parallels between the woke movement in the U.S. and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chinese-communist-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Cultural Revolution</a>. 
During Friday’s episode of HBO&#8217;s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher took aim at leftist activists, saying that they are actually fighting a war with reality and biology. 
“If you’re part of today’s woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control because the revolutionaries get so drunk on their purifying elixir, they imagine they can reinvent the very nature of human beings,” Maher said. 
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If you&#39;re part of today&#39;s woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control. <a href="https://t.co/IYNfDhtR0C">pic.twitter.com/IYNfDhtR0C</a>
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Maher then discussed communists, who he said believed that they could selfishness from humanity. 
“The problem with communism, and with some very recent ideologies here at home is that they think they can change reality by screaming at it, that you can bend human nature by holding your breath. But that’s the difference between reality and your mommy,” Maher said. 
The comedian also joked that he had asked ChatGPT about similarities between Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China and the woke revolutionaries of today, saying that it responded by asking him how much time he had.
Maher referenced Mao’s war on the Four Olds of old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits before he compared communist reeducation programs to freshman orientation at American universities. 
To back up his claims, Maher pointed to Jason Kilborn, a law professor who was disciplined for alluding to racial slurs in a test question about racial bias, and Winston Marshall, a former banjo player for Mumford and Sons who was criticized after sharing that he liked a book by Andy Ngo. 
During the monologue, Maher also blasted those who think they can erase gender and make obesity healthy by creating a new human. 
“With communists, that human was no longer selfish. In America today, that human is no longer born male or female. And obesity is not something that affects health. You can be healthy at any size. Seriously, we voted on it,” Maher said. 
Maher, who has been critical of gender theory in the past, blasted The Atlantic as a “formerly serious magazine” because it had published an article about not segregating sports by sex. 
“I’ve spent three decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory,” he concluded. “And now I got to deal with people who say, ‘You know what else is just a theory? Biology.’”

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Famed neurosurgeon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson">Ben Carson</a>, who served as former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">President Trump’s</a> secretary of Housing and Urban Development, blasted the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, comparing the action to those of infamous communist tyrants Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.
Prior to serving under Trump, Carson had become famous for leading surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins who were joined at the back of the head and performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb.
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Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening. This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.
&mdash; Ben &amp; Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/1556835194799329282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening,” Carson tweeted. “This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.”
Mao Zedong, who ruled communist China with an iron fist, murdered roughly 45 million people between 1958 to 1962 with his “Great Leap Forward” policy, The Washington Post has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/">noted</a>. His “Anti-Rightist Campaign” between 1957 and 1959 featured the persecution of people who favored capitalism or opposed one-party rule and state-run collectivization.
As for Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro, Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression">asserted</a>, “As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights. Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”
In contrast, Abraham Lincoln exhorted in his timeless first Inaugural Address: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“Our Republic is one where we have the freedom to think, say, and believe what we want without fear of government intimidation, that includes the President. If we lose those basic freedoms, we lose it all,” Carson stated. “I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing.”
“Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up,” he warned.
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I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing. Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up. <a href="https://t.co/PzYR8xiXM3">pic.twitter.com/PzYR8xiXM3</a>
&mdash; Ben &amp; Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/1556835212306391041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ben Carson Compares FBI Raid To Communist Tyrants: ‘This Is The Way Of Mao And Castro’

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On December 26, the Chinese state-backed Global Times celebrated the birth of communist dictator and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.
“Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader [Mao Zedong],” the Times tweeted.
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Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaoZedong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaoZedong</a>. <a href="https://t.co/LNOwkTHr5r">pic.twitter.com/LNOwkTHr5r</a>
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“Today is the 128th anniversary of the birth of the revered late CPC leader Mao Zedong,” the outlet tweeted in an additional post. “He led the Chinese people to change their destiny. ‘The people, and the people alone, are the driving force in the making of the world&#8217;s history,’ Chairman Mao once said.”
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Today is the 128th anniversary of the birth of the revered late CPC leader Mao Zedong. He led the Chinese people to change their destiny. “The people, and the people alone, are the driving force in the making of the world&#39;s history,” Chairman Mao once said. <a href="https://t.co/ANDf8oTS6A">pic.twitter.com/ANDf8oTS6A</a>
&mdash; Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1474938979828973568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The state-run media outlet was immediately condemned on social media for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-the-birthday-of-historys-biggest-mass-murderer-ccp-backed-media-celebrates-maos-warm-and-powerful-smile">celebrating</a> the genocidal ruler who imposed the &#8220;Great Leap Forward,&#8221; resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of his own people.
“REMINDER: Mao killed approximately 65 MILLION people,” Steve Guest said.
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REMINDER: Mao killed approximately 65 MILLION people. <a href="https://t.co/FQvRkedLzX">https://t.co/FQvRkedLzX</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1475250541332774912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Did you know Mao’s favorite form of torture was The Tiger Seat? Poor soul would be seated with his legs stretched out and tied down straight in front of him. Then his feet would slowly be raised until his knees broke and bent the wrong way. Mao famously liked to watch it happen,” Jesse Kelly responded.
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Did you know Mao’s favorite form of torture was The Tiger Seat? Poor soul would be seated with his legs stretched out and tied down straight in front of him. Then his feet would slowly be raised until his knees broke and bent the wrong way. Mao famously liked to watch it happen. <a href="https://t.co/DXGl16KPQU">https://t.co/DXGl16KPQU</a>
&mdash; Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1475147962095484928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Specifically, he herded rural Chinese people onto communal farms so he could mass harvest grain to sell abroad,” Kelly added. “That of course, failed. But because he was a communist he didn’t blame himself. He blamed the sparrows. He had them slaughtered. This led to mass famine and death.”
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Specifically, he herded rural Chinese people onto communal farms so he could mass harvest grain to sell abroad. That of course, failed. But because he was a communist he didn’t blame himself. He blamed the sparrows. He had them slaughtered. This led to mass famine and death. <a href="https://t.co/EfxPMPqjE2">https://t.co/EfxPMPqjE2</a>
&mdash; Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1475163846188978183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Mao’s only positive contribution to humanity was as worm food,” Dana Loesch tweeted. “To hell with commies.”
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Mao’s only positive contribution to humanity was as worm food. To hell with commies. <a href="https://t.co/rZ8owXNIrW">https://t.co/rZ8owXNIrW</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1475236787740106753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Of course Twitter allows Chinese Communist Party propaganda on its platform [including] the celebration of a mass murdering monster. The same Twitter that banned a sitting US president,” Rita Panahi replied.
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Of course Twitter allows Chinese Communist Party propaganda on its platform incl the celebration of a mass murdering monster. The same Twitter that banned a sitting US president. <a href="https://t.co/wz8dietzGs">https://t.co/wz8dietzGs</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1475253293823799297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“‘Warm and powerful smile’ that left 40 million dead,” Emily Schrader said.
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“Warm and powerful smile” that left 40 million dead. <a href="https://t.co/ApR1wR18rm">https://t.co/ApR1wR18rm</a>
&mdash; Emily Schrader &#8211; אמילי שריידר (@emilykschrader) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1475434726282477574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Imagine posting this with Hitler’s face,” Hannah Cox tweeted. “Same difference. Communism has been as deadly and evil as fascism, every time, all of the time.”
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Imagine posting this with Hitler’s face. 
Same difference. Communism has been as deadly and evil as fascism, every time, all of the time. <a href="https://t.co/8xdufWw0QJ">https://t.co/8xdufWw0QJ</a>
&mdash; Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahDCox/status/1475336860977156098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“A murderous Communist dictator but OK,” Ned Ryun tweeted.
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A murderous Communist dictator but OK. <a href="https://t.co/bw1mPBz7Wu">https://t.co/bw1mPBz7Wu</a>
&mdash; Ned Ryun (@nedryun) <a href="https://twitter.com/nedryun/status/1475286492314574848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“[Mao Zedong] was a mass murderer, a tyrant, pure evil,” Arsen Ostrovsky said.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaoZedong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaoZedong</a> was a mass murderer, a tyrant, pure evil. <a href="https://t.co/nnzj72YDE4">https://t.co/nnzj72YDE4</a>
&mdash; Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1475250841703665673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Hitler, Stalin, Mao, &amp; Pol Pot were probably the four biggest monsters of the 20th century — and the state-run propaganda arms of a country that wants to usurp America worships one of them,” Jerry Dunleavy tweeted.
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Hitler, Stalin, Mao, &amp; Pol Pot were probably the four biggest monsters of the 20th century — and the state-run propaganda arms of a country that wants to usurp America worships one of them. <a href="https://t.co/Hnjr6yfvty">https://t.co/Hnjr6yfvty</a>
&mdash; Jerry Christmas 🎄🎅🏽 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1475204662617911303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Maybe one of two people who ever lived that you can say was probably worse than Hitler,” David Harsanyi tweeted.
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Maybe one of two people who ever lived that you can say was probably worse than Hitler. <a href="https://t.co/XKifS0JEe1">https://t.co/XKifS0JEe1</a>
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1475202041786114049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Let&#8217;s recall instead the millions whose deaths he caused, and the additional millions whose lives he ruined,&#8221; Andrew Stuttaford replied.
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Let&#39;s recall instead the millions whose deaths he caused, and the additional millions whose lives he ruined. <a href="https://t.co/3FR0K7F60S">https://t.co/3FR0K7F60S</a>
&mdash; Andrew Stuttaford (@AStuttaford) <a href="https://twitter.com/AStuttaford/status/1475236342753906688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“If you wanted to know what evil looks like, here it is,” Matthew Marsden tweeted.
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If you wanted to know what evil looks like, here it is. <a href="https://t.co/ekuAlza0Wl">https://t.co/ekuAlza0Wl</a>
&mdash; Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1475332896055771138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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On Boxing Day, December 26, a Chinese state-backed media outlet celebrated the birth of communist dictator and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.
“Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader [Mao Zedong],” tweeted Global Times.
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Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaoZedong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaoZedong</a>. <a href="https://t.co/LNOwkTHr5r">pic.twitter.com/LNOwkTHr5r</a>
&mdash; Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1474987009072504837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Also known as Chairman Mao, the communist revolutionary was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
The PRC was founded on October 1, 1949, becoming a single-party state controlled with an iron fist by the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has ruled ever since.
Setting aside the other unmentionable moral crimes of the CCP since its inception — including the &#8220;One Child Policy,&#8221; which resulted in 35 years of countless forced abortions, sterilizations, and the abandonment of babies, as well as the ongoing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province — the &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221; alone marks Mao as the most prolific mass murder in history.
In 2016, historian Frank Dikötter discussed the “appalling truth about Chairman Mao’s genocidal rule” in an article titled, “<a href="https://www.historytoday.com/archive/looking-back-great-leap-forward">Looking back on the Great Leap Forward</a>”:
<blockquote>Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them. In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party’s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.
A catastrophe of gargantuan proportions ensued. Extrapolating from published population statistics, historians have speculated that tens of millions of people died of starvation. But the true dimensions of what happened are only now coming to light thanks to the meticulous reports the party itself compiled during the famine….
What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later. The case of Wang Ziyou was reported to the central leadership: one of his ears was chopped off, his legs were tied with iron wire, a ten kilogram stone was dropped on his back and then he was branded with a sizzling tool – punishment for digging up a potato.</blockquote>
But let’s recall a warm and powerful smile, on Twitter.
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth"> @ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

On The Birthday Of History’s Biggest Mass Murderer, CCP-Backed Media Celebrates Mao’s ‘Warm And Powerful Smile’

On Sunday, a Bloomberg opinion columnist offered a take apparently minimizing the horrific, bloody Chinese Cultural Revolution launched by the Communist dictator Mao Zedong, arguing, “Most of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn’t have any real consequences.” That triggered harsh criticism, forcing the columnist to claim he deleted the tweet because “people were swarming” and “It really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it.”
Noah Smith, whom Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/AR3OYuAmvcU/noah-smith">notes</a> “was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University,&#8221; tweeted, “What’s interesting is that most of these Cultural Revolution cancellations didn’t have any real consequences. You’d apologize, your students would put up a mean poster in your house, and that would be that …”
Someone responded on Twitter, “This is a bad take. The students killed millions of people, starting with their teachers and then moving on to each other.”
Smith curtly replied, “But usually not.”
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This is&#8230; delicious. <a href="https://t.co/oAZQUbbZcK">pic.twitter.com/oAZQUbbZcK</a>
&mdash; James Lindsay, intentionally unendurable intellect (@ConceptualJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1409341582906585088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/17/how-many-died-new-evidence-suggests-far-higher-numbers-for-the-victims-of-mao-zedongs-era/01044df5-03dd-49f4-a453-a033c5287bce/">The Washington Post</a> noted in July 1994:
<blockquote>Relying on official Chinese sources, some Western scholars have long accepted that half a million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Hu Yaobang, former communist Party chief, has been quoted as saying that 1 million people died during the period, but the figure apparently excludes the fighting between Red Guard and army factions. A number of scholars, including Harry Harding of the Brookings Institution, believe about 1 million died. But as new evidence emerges, an even higher toll is likely. Two of the Cultural Revolution campaigns least known in the West and least studied by scholars &#8212; the &#8220;purification of class ranks&#8221; (1968-70) and the campaign against &#8220;May 16 elements&#8221;(1968-69) &#8212; are now revealed to be among the bloodiest.</blockquote>
After apparent blowback, Smith <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1409406217416417284">stated</a>, “Tweet was taken massively out of context btw.”
He added, &#8220;I deleted because people were swarming, but I was definitely not talking about the CR overall, just about one narrow set of incidents described by Yu Hua in &#8216;China in Ten Words&#8217; &#8212; the pro forma denunciation of every teacher in his school in the CR&#8217;s later years.&#8221;
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I deleted because people were swarming, but I was definitely not talking about the CR overall, just about one narrow set of incidents described by Yu Hua in &quot;China in Ten Words&quot; &#8212; the pro forma denunciation of every teacher in his school in the CR&#39;s later years.
&mdash; Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1409408830555885570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After another person pointed out, “A lot of us have read the whole thread. Yes I know you&#8217;re just talking about what&#8217;s depicted in the book. But the thread, taken as a whole, still sounds like mininalizing the atrocity of CR. Which is what happens when ppl just use an anecdotal account as a source,” Smith wrote, “OK! Perhaps I should have qualified that I think the CR as a whole was a mass atrocity (and one of the most insane in the modern world). I honestly did not expect that people would even consider the possibility that I would minimize it.”
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OK! Perhaps I should have qualified that I think the CR as a whole was a mass atrocity (and one of the most insane in the modern world). I honestly did not expect that people would even consider the possibility that I would minimize it.
&mdash; Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1409411142045241346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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He continued, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been mad about the Cultural Revolution ever since one of my best friends told me about how his grandfather got his thumbs cut off. In fact, my two best friends both had parents traumatized by the CR, with PTSD to this day.&#8221;
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I&#39;ve been mad about the Cultural Revolution ever since one of my best friends told me about how his grandfather got his thumbs cut off. In fact, my two best friends both had parents traumatized by the CR, with PTSD to this day.
&mdash; Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1409411633898610688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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He concluded, &#8220;It really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it. And that&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t bother to give qualifiers that would make it clear that that is not what I was doing.&#8221;
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It really never entered my mind that people might think I would minimize or dismiss it. And that&#39;s why I didn&#39;t bother to give qualifiers that would make it clear that that is not what I was doing.
&mdash; Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1409411784239247361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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‘Didn’t Have Any Real Consequences’: Bloomberg Opinion Writer Minimizes Mao’s Bloody Cultural Revolution

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A Chinese woman who survived the brutal Chinese communist regime of dictator Mao Zedong is warning Americans that the same things that happened during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are now happening in the United States.
Xi Van Fleet, whose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-survivor-of-maos-china-stuns-school-board-with-chilling-warning-about-critical-race-theory">impassioned speech</a> to a Virginia school board went viral earlier this week, joined Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night to further elaborate on the similarities between what happened in China and what is happening in the U.S. right now.
&#8220;Okay, I just want to let the American people know that what&#8217;s going on in our school and in our country is really a replay of the Cultural Revolution in China, and I want people to see the similarities and the similarities are terrifying,&#8221; Van Fleet said. &#8220;They use the same ideology, and same methodology, even the same vocabulary. And with the same goal. The ideology is Cultural Marxism. And we were divided into groups as the oppressor and oppressed. And here we use race, and they&#8217;re the use class. And the people here who have a different review, were labeled racist. But in the Cultural Revolution, the label is counterrevolutionary. So it is a hat that fits all. And once the hat is on your head, your life is ruined.&#8221;
&#8220;And the take out methodology is also very similar. It&#8217;s cancel culture, we basically canceled the whole Chinese civilization pre-communism,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And we changed our school names, street names, store names; we changed even our personal names. My name is Xi and I was named after the city I was born, Xi&#8217;an. She means West; it also refers to the imperialism. So I wanted so bad to change my name because I want to be more communist. I&#8217;m glad my parents convinced me not to. And the vocabulary is even the same wokeness. And to be specific, we use class wokeness. In Chinese it is [phrase spoken in Chinese], your level of wokeness determine your chance to get the promotion or to get benefit and who decide your level of wokeness and is the party leaders.&#8221;
A couple of minutes later, Van Fleet warned that &#8220;freedom is fragile, and we can lose it anytime if we don&#8217;t defend it.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s a lot of Chinese Americans who have the same experience and share my point of view,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I know that more and more people will still step up and share their stories and tell the American people critical race theory is not anti-racism, it is itself is racist. It&#8217;s divisive, it&#8217;s destructive, and it is dangerous.&#8221;
WATCH:
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<blockquote>SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: More developments tonight on how parents and common sense Americans are pushing back against the destructive far-left critical race theory ideology that&#8217;s infiltrating America&#8217;s schools. Just listen to how one Virginia mom who actually survived Mao&#8217;s China eviscerates her local school board amid the district&#8217;s critical race theory push, take a look at this.
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XI VAN FLEET: I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools. You are now training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. Growing up in Mao’s China, all of this seems very familiar. The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people; the only difference is they used class instead of race. &#8230; This is, indeed, the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Critical Race Theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our schools.
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HANNITY: And down in the great state of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to be a beacon of hope against his far-left lunacy, as the Florida Board of Education has approved the governor&#8217;s rule banning teaching of critical race theory in the state&#8217;s public schools. Joining us now for reaction Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz, along with the mother you just saw in that video, Xi Van Fleet is with us. You were six years old when the Cultural Revolution began in China. And you&#8217;ve spoken eloquently about what it was like in school and posters hung in hallways and teachers and students would attack each other for being ideologically in impure. Can you explain what you experienced and the similarities you see?
XI VAN FLEET: Okay, I just want to let the American people know that what&#8217;s going on in our school and in our country is really a replay of the Cultural Revolution in China, and I want people to see the similarities and the similarities are terrifying. They use the same ideology, and same methodology, even the same vocabulary. And with the same goal. The ideology is Cultural Marxism. And we were divided into groups as the oppressor and oppressed. And here we use race, and they&#8217;re the use class. And the people here who have a different review, were labeled racist. But in the Cultural Revolution, the label is counterrevolutionary. So it is a hat that fits all. And once the hat is on your head, your life is ruined. And the take out methodology is also very similar. It&#8217;s cancel culture, we basically canceled the whole Chinese civilization pre-communism. And we changed our school names, street names, store names, we changed even our personal names. My name is Xi and I was named after the city I was born, Xi&#8217;an. She means West, it also refers to the imperialism. So I wanted so bad to change my name because I want to be more communist. I&#8217;m glad my parents convinced me not to. And the vocabulary is even the same wokeness. And to be specific, we use class wokeness. In Chinese it is [phrase spoken in Chinese], your level of wokeness determine your chance to get the promotion or to get benefit and who decide your level of wokeness and is the party leaders. 
HANNITY: Yeah, and you speak, and you speak from real experience. I mean, you have six years old, but you live 20 years under this oppression. And it sounds like out of the lessons you learned under Mao, and the revolution. You see this group think now appearing in America and you&#8217;re trying to warn Americans that you don&#8217;t want to go down this road. 
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XI VAN FLEET: I just want people to know that freedom is fragile, and we can lose it anytime if we don&#8217;t defend it. And there&#8217;s a lot of Chinese Americans who have the same experience and share my point of view. And I know that more and more people will still step up and share their stories and tell the American people critical race theory is not anti-racism, it is itself is racist. It&#8217;s divisive, it&#8217;s destructive, and it is dangerous.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-ivy-league-professor-truly-anti-racist-parents-must-pull-kids-from-school-that-teaches-crt">Black Ivy League Professor: ‘Truly Anti-Racist’ Parents Must Pull Kids From School That Teaches CRT</a>

Xi Van Fleet

Survivor Of Mao’s China: Critical Race Theory ‘Is Racist,’ China Used ‘Wokeness’ To Install Communism

Critical Race Theory

A Chinese woman who suffered under the brutal Communist Chinese regime of Mao Tse-Tung vehemently denounced Loudoun County’s School board in Virginia for its championing of Critical Race Theory, charging, “All of this seems very familiar … the only difference is they used class instead of race. … This is, indeed, the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.”
Given one minute to speak, the Chinese woman wasted no time getting to the point, asserting, “I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools. You are now training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. Growing up in Mao’s China, all of this seems very familiar. The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people; the only difference is they used class instead of race.”
“During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers turn against each other,” she recalled. “We changed school names to be politically correct. We were taught to denounce our heritage. The Red Guards destroyed anything that is not Communist: old statues, books, and anything else.”
She pointed out that in China during the Cultural Revolution, students were also encouraged to report on each other: “We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the Bias Reporting System.”
She concluded, “This is, indeed, the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Critical Race Theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our schools.”
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What a chilling warning for parents from someone who came to this country from China. <a href="https://t.co/GOLmvntqgn">pic.twitter.com/GOLmvntqgn</a>
&mdash; fightforschools (@fightforschools) <a href="https://twitter.com/fightforschools/status/1402647901738881027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/06/equity-programs-in-loudoun-co-schools-lead-to-lawsuit-from-parents/">WTOP</a> reported on June 3 that Loudoun County parents had <a href="https://ljc-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/06/2021-06-02-Menders-v-Loudoun-County-School-Board_Complaint.pdf">filed suit</a> in federal court against the Loudoun County School Board, claiming that school leaders were violating students’ free speech right.
WTOP continued:
<blockquote>The lawsuit aims to do away with the school system’s “Student Equity Ambassador Program” and “Bias Reporting System,” both of which encourage students to observe and discuss incidents of racist behavior in their school communities. Under the ambassador program, schools select a handful of students who meet with principals and other school leaders to discuss such incidents, while the reporting system urges students to anonymously report observations using a form online.</blockquote>
The Guardian explained of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which began in May 1966:
<blockquote>… the Cultural Revolution crippled the economy, ruined millions of lives and thrust <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link">China</a> into 10 years of turmoil, bloodshed, hunger and stagnation.
Chinese students sprung (sic) into action, setting up Red Guard divisions in classrooms and campuses across the country. By August 1966 &#8211; so-called Red August &#8211; the mayhem was in full swing as Mao’s allies urged Red Guards to destroy the “four olds” &#8211; old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture. Schools and universities were closed and churches, shrines, libraries, shops and private homes ransacked or destroyed as the assault on “feudal” traditions began. … Historians believe somewhere between 500,000 and two million people lost their lives as a result of the Cultural Revolution.</blockquote>
Mao had published a letter indicting some Communist Party leaders on May 16, 1966. On May 25, philosophy professor Nie Yuanzi put up a propaganda sheet denouncing the university president and other administration figures, which triggered a chain reaction, as research attorney James David Banker <a href="https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/">noted</a>.
He added, &#8220;That chain reaction was accelerated by ‘working groups’ of ideologues sent to administer schools. Under their tenure, schools became centers of activism rather than learning. <a href="http://hum.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/1966teacher.htm">Students were encouraged</a> to create big-character posters exposing their own teachers, officials, and even parents.”

Chinese woman at Loudoun County meeting

WATCH: Survivor Of Mao’s China Stuns School Board With Chilling Warning About Critical Race Theory

Virginia

Joe Biden has always had a plagiarism problem. Now, he can’t stop stealing the words of one of history’s greatest monsters: Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tse-tung.
Over the last year, Biden has repeatedly quoted the same phrase in numerous contexts without crediting Mao — and the legacy media have had nothing to say about it.
The most recent example of Biden’s Mao reference came at the 140th commencement of the U.S. Coast Guard on May 19, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-mao-quote-coast-guard">moments</a> after botching a quotation he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/video-comparing-bidens-botched-joke-to-coast-guard-cadets-to-reagans-solid-delivery-goes-viral">stole</a> from Ronald Reagan. While alternating between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calls-coast-guard-graduates-dull-for-not-applauding-during-his-speech">boring and insulting</a> the graduates, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/19/remarks-by-president-biden-at-united-states-coast-guard-academys-140th-commencement-exercises/">told</a> the graduates:
<blockquote>We need to see more women at the highest levels of command.  We have to make sure that women have the chance to succeed and th- — thrive throughout their careers.  There’s a saying that we use in a different context — a Chinese saying that says, “Women hold up half the world.” It’s an absolutely stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we do. </blockquote>
The “Chinese saying” came from the lips of Mao Tse-tung, whose policies and actions killed at least <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/">45 million people</a> during the “Great Leap Forward” from 1958 to 1962. The remark was <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dc8UNlGkDZsC&amp;pg=PA116&amp;lpg=PA116&amp;dq=Times+have+changed+%E2%80%A6+today+men+and+women+are+equal,+Whatever+men+comrades+can+accomplish,+women+comrades+can+too&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=NT6akprFtB&amp;sig=ACfU3U2Oc0SJCot2QcnWvk5-vJ21N9bLoA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiI96aDz-_wAhUWCs0KHYEyCtUQ6AEwAnoECAIQAw#v=onepage&amp;q=Times%20have%20changed%20%E2%80%A6%20today%20men%20and%20women%20are%20equal%2C%20Whatever%20men%20comrades%20can%20accomplish%2C%20women%20comrades%20can%20too&amp;f=false">reported</a> by Chinese <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Red_and_Expert/Y--cAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=%22Whatever+men+comrades+can+accomplish,+women+comrades+can+too%22+%22Women+hold+up+half+the+sky%22&amp;dq=%22Whatever+men+comrades+can+accomplish,+women+comrades+can+too%22+%22Women+hold+up+half+the+sky%22&amp;printsec=frontcover">media</a> on March 8, 1973, as:
<blockquote>Times have changed, and men and women are equal, Whatever men comrades can accomplish, women comrades can, too. Women hold up half the sky.</blockquote>
That quotation made an impression on Biden, or his speechwriter, who has included it in the president’s prepared addresses several times.
Biden, whose first presidential campaign 33 years ago derailed over plagiarizing British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock and exaggerating his academic accomplishments, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-references-chinese-proverb-in-speech-about-womens-rights-actually-quotes-mao-zedong">parroted</a> the Mao quote to deep-pocketed donors at a fundraiser in July 2020, as The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>“For the first time, an economic crisis is hitting industries dominated by women,” Biden said, flanked by former senior Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett, the former vice president’s special guest at the digital fundraiser. “We’ve got to get real economic relief into women’s hands now.”
He then quoted what he called an “old Chinese proverb” about women.
“Women hold up half the sky,” Biden said.</blockquote>
A month later, on August 21, he <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-joe-biden-kamala-harris-joint-interview-abcs/story?id=72542387">explained</a> why he chose his vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris, during the ticket’s first joint press conference with Robin Roberts of “Good Morning America”:
<blockquote>The government should look like the people, look like the country. Fifty one percent of the people in this country are women. As that old expression goes, women hold up half the sky, and in order to be able to succeed, you&#8217;ve got to be dealt in across the board.</blockquote>
Mao Tse-tung was history’s most prolific murderer, subjecting the world’s largest nation to a life of economic destitution and political slavery. Why would the president quote him? Why would the media say nothing about the quotation’s revolting origins?
Compare that to the media outrage when President Donald Trump quoted someone who piques the media’s ire, like a conservative columnist.
In January 2019, then-President Trump tweeted a few quotations from a column by Pat Buchanan on border security, and the media pounced.
“Trump tweets op-ed by Pat Buchanan, whom he derided as a &#8216;Hitler lover&#8217; in 1999,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/14/trump-quotes-pat-buchanan/2568197002/">wrote</a> USA Today.
“Trump cites Pat Buchanan, man he once called &#8216;Hitler lover,&#8217; to support border wall,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425159-trump-cites-pat-buchanan-man-he-once-called-hitler-lover-to-support">said</a> The Hill.
“Trump Quotes ‘Hitler Lover’ In Latest Attempt To Push His Border Wall Plan,” read the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pat-buchanan_n_5c3c3ae4e4b0922a21d64541">cranky headline</a> at HuffPost.
Not content to draw attention to the quotation, The Washington Post’s Philip Bump dedicated an entire <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/14/multilevel-irony-trump-embracing-pat-buchanan-this-moment/">column</a> to dissecting “the multilevel irony” of the moment.
The media treated Buchanan, an advisor to three presidents and a three-time presidential candidate who has sometimes said things considered intemperate, as though he were a tyrant on the order of … Mao Tse-tung.
Yet when Biden quotes the bloodiest despot in history, the legacy media either do not know or keep the secret to themselves. There appears to have been no coverage from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ausatoday.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=Cp-yYPmPMM2ttQb8kqN4&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ausatoday.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQypS9DFjimb0MYImevQxoAXAAeAGAAbYBiAGeBpIBAzcuMpgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj5vKna2O_wAhXNVs0KHXzJCA8Q4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">USA Today</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+%22half+the+sky%22+site%3Athehill.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=tAWzYMW1E5WPtAb3r6WACg&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+%22half+the+sky%22+site%3Athehill.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQhzpYkEhguUloAXAAeACAAUaIAdoHkgECMTaYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjF36rOuvDwAhWVB80KHfdXCaAQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">The Hill</a>, and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ahuffpost.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=RAWzYNToKM7OtQabppSQBg&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ahuffpost.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQqaQFWNaqBWCMrAVoAXAAeACAAdcBiAHVBZIBBTguMC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjUmoyZuvDwAhVOZ80KHRsTBWIQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">HuffPost</a> — nor <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ago.abc.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=Bp-yYMitCo_WtQb1hKSwBA&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Ago.abc.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQ_A9YyR5g3x9oAXAAeACAAVyIAcEFkgEBOZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjIyI_Y2O_wAhUPa80KHXUCCUYQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=biden+quotes+mao+site:cbsnews.com&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">CBS</a>,<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Anbc.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=9J6yYPahN9nNtQb3yaWQBg&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Anbc.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQpDdYyTlgvT1oAXAAeACAAVKIAacCkgEBNJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj26_HP2O_wAhXZZs0KHfdkCWIQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5"> NBC</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Acnn.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=7J6yYJPyLZuGtQaIyJrYBg&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Acnn.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQ6zhYqzpgvTtoAXAAeACAAV-IAbICkgEBNJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiTmIDM2O_wAhUbQ80KHQikBmsQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Awashingtonpost.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021&amp;ei=5J6yYIzmLJC3tQbhsorQAg&amp;oq=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Awashingtonpost.com&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQmh5Y8jhg1DpoAXAAeACAAVmIAa4JkgECMTeYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiM6JbI2O_wAhWQW80KHWGZAioQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">The Washington Post</a>, or <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+quotes+mao+site%3Anytimes.com&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1354&amp;bih=713&amp;source=lnt&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F20%2F2021%2Ccd_max%3A&amp;tbm=">The New York Times</a>, for that matter.
Nor can they all plead ignorance. The New York Times quoted Biden’s favorite phrase of Mao’s favorably in a September 2017 story <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-all-its-flaws-communist-revolution-ben-shapiro">called</a>, “For all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.”
Mao didn’t simply &#8220;dream big&#8221;; he accomplished &#8220;big&#8221; things — enormously evil actions on a scale never matched before or since. Perhaps the leader of the free world should be discouraged from looking at his writings as a source of wisdom.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published &#8220;The Devil and Karl Marx,&#8221; a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. The book has come out during an important time in our history since so many Americans, particularly our youth, have fallen for the seductive siren song of socialism taught to them by the academic elite.
&#8220;The Black Book of Communism,&#8221; edited by Stephane Courtois details the Marxist-Leninist death toll in the 20th century. Here is the breakdown: USSR, 20 million deaths; China, 65 million; Vietnam, 1 million; North Korea and Cambodia, 2 million each; Eastern Europe, 1 million; and about 3.5 million in Latin America, Africa and Afghanistan. These figures understate those detailed by Professor R.J. Rummel in &#8220;Death by Government.&#8221; He finds that from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens. From 1949 to 1976, Communist China&#8217;s Mao Zedong regime was responsible for the death of as many as 78 million of its own citizens.
The world&#8217;s intellectual elite readily focus on Adolph Hitler&#8217;s murderous atrocities but ignore those of the world&#8217;s socialists. Mao Zedong has been long admired by academics and leftists across our country. They often marched around singing his praises and waving his little red book, &#8220;Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.&#8221; President Barack Obama&#8217;s communications director, Anita Dunn, in her June 2009 commencement address to St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral, said Mao was one of her heroes.
Whether it&#8217;s the academic community, the media elite, stalwarts of the Democratic Party or organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, Green for All, the Sierra Club and the Children&#8217;s Defense Fund, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism — a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined. Today&#8217;s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from those of Nazi, Soviet and Maoist mass murderers. Keep in mind that one does not have to be in favor of death camps or wars of conquest to be a tyrant. The only requirement is that one must believe in the primacy of the state over individual rights.
Kengor highlights another feature of Marx ignored by his followers. This feature of Marxism should be disturbing to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who said that she and her fellow organizers are &#8220;trained Marxists.&#8221; I wonder whether she shares Marx&#8217;s views on race. Marx&#8217;s son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, was viewed as having Negro blood in his veins. Marx denigrated him as &#8220;Negillo&#8221; and &#8220;The Gorilla.&#8221;
Marx had similar hate for Jews. He referred to his fellow socialist labor organizer Ferdinand Lasalle as a &#8220;greasy Jew,&#8221; &#8220;the little kike,&#8221; &#8220;water polack jew&#8221; and &#8220;Jewish n——r.&#8221; In 1844, Marx wrote an essay titled &#8220;The Jewish Question&#8221; in which he asks, &#8220;What is the worldly cult of the Jew?&#8221; His answer: &#8220;Haggling. What is his worldly god? Money.&#8221;
Down through the years, leftists made a moral equivalency between communist/socialist totalitarianism and democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, &#8220;Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.&#8221; Walter Duranty called Stalin &#8220;the greatest living statesman &#8230; a quiet, unobtrusive man.&#8221; George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith visited Mao&#8217;s China and praised Mao Zedong and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s China expert, complained that &#8220;America is doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values,&#8221; and urged us to &#8220;borrow ideas and solutions&#8221; from China.
Kengor does a yeoman&#8217;s job of highlighting the evils of Marxism. The question is whether Americans will heed his lesson or fall prey to the false promises and live the horrors of socialism. By the way, while Sweden and Denmark have a large welfare system, they have market economies — not socialist economies, as some leftists claim.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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