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The Chinese Cultural Revolution: Lessons for America’s Cancel Culture

Soon enough the cancelers will find them selves open to cancellation.

In September 13, 1971, Lin Biao, China’s defense minister died in an airplane crash. What made his last flight memorable was that he was fleeing to the Soviet Union after he was discovered plotting a coup against party General Secretary Mao Zedong. Lin’s plane ran out of fuel. Or so goes the official story advanced by the Chinese Communist Party.

This was an early and extreme version of the “cancel culture” so prevalent in America today. Fall afoul of the PC polizei and you are likely to find yourself in a professional and personal plane crash. Your best hope is to grovel before your oppressors, demonstrating sufficient abject remorse and engaging in enough self-flagellation to win relief from the draconian sentence normally imposed. Luckily, the current penalties for independent thought remain less those than under Mao.

Now the villains are racists and homophobes rather than capitalist roaders and revisionists. The most important difference today is the mob’s determination to ruin those with whom one disagrees.

Lin was one of the CCP military leaders who made the revolution a success. Within a decade of the communists taking power he became minister of national defense and vice premier. By the end of the 1960s he was officially anointed as Mao’s successor — a dangerous position to occupy while the Red Emperor was still alive. Especially during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Like many great historical figures, Mao had enormous skills and weaknesses. The son of prosperous peasants, he joined the nascent communist party, rose within the ranks, and drove it to victory. On October 1, 1949 he announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China.

However, even after the CCP’s victory he fueled conflict. In the early years came consolidation of victory across his vast, populous nation: there were many class enemies and opponents of the revolution to neutralize and punish. He was the dominant voice demanding the PRC’s entry in the Korean War, turning the imminent allied victory over North Korea into a bloody two-and-a-half-year stalemate.

He briefly invited criticism of the party leadership, before turning on those who obliged. He then led successive drives against those seen as adversaries, including the Sufan Movement, which aimed at supposed counter-revolutionaries, and Anti-Rightest Movement, which targeted any and all detractors, even on the far left. Next came the disastrous Great Leap Forward, which lead to mass starvation and the deaths of tens of millions. Even senior party officials feared telling him the truth about his bizarre directives which ranged from backyard steel production to collective agricultural cultivation. Eventually he was pushed aside into a more ceremonial role.

Not one to subordinate his ambition to the welfare of his more than 700 million countrymen — he made light of the threat of nuclear war because he believed that China had more than enough people to replace any killed — Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in May 1966 to cleanse the party of capitalists, capitalist roaders, rightists, traditionalists, revisionists, bourgeois remnants, and anyone else lacking sufficient revolutionary fervor. Which, conveniently, could be summed up as anyone who doubted his leadership after he had thrown the country into chaos, forced crackpot theories on more than a fifth of mankind, caused untold death and devastation, and treated the slightest criticism as disloyalty. The ultimate objective was to again make “Mao Zedong thought,” which had already killed millions, the governing standard in...

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Rochester Officers Cover Names After Protesters Shout Their Addresses, Kids’ Names, Make Taunting Calls To Parents In Front Of Them

Rochester Police Department (RPD) officers have been given permission to cover up their names displayed on their tags to avoid harassment from left-wing protesters, who are screaming out their home addresses, kids’ names and schools, and making taunting calls to their parents in front of them. They are also spreading personal information about the cops via social media.

“The past couple of months officers names have been researched by protesters to put personal information out to the public, putting the safety of their families in jeopardy,” said a statement from RPD Chief La’Ron Singletary, who announced his resignation earlier this week.

“Officers have been allowed to remove their name tags in an effort to prevent their personal information from being spread on social media,” Singletary added.

Local radio show host and journalist Bob Lonsberry posted via Twitter on Thursday: “Peaceful protesters have stood outside the [Rochester] Public Safety Building, read an officer’s name off his uniform, tracked him down on their phones, and called his parents to taunt them. Or held up the phone to show the officer his home address and threaten to...

Chinese virologist who fled to the US says she'll release evidence proving COVID-19 was made in Wuhan laboratory

Chinese government story about pandemic's orgins "a smokescreen," scientist says.

Chinese scientist who reportedly fled her home country out of fear for her safety has said that she intends to release evidence proving that SARS-Cov-2 did not arise in nature but was actually manufactured in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Virologist Li-Meng Yan claims to have done some of the earliest work on COVID-19 when it first emerged in China last year. She has said she left China in April and that she is currently in hiding in the U.S.

On the British ITV television show "Loose Women" on Friday, Yan said she intends to release evidence showing "why this has come from the lab in China, why they are the only ones who made it."

"The genome sequence [of the virus] is like a human finger print," she told the talk show. "And based on this you can identify these things."

Yan said at the start of the pandemic she attempted to warn her supervisors of the threat the virus posed yet she was ignored.

The scientist on the show declared it "critical" for the world to understand the virus's origins, claiming: "We can not overcome it, it will be life-threatening for everyone," though current epidemiological data indicate that the virus likely has a survival rate above 99%...

Joe Biden appeared to accidentally reveal a screen with teleprompter text in front of him during an April television interview, a clip of which went viral Friday.

Biden appearing on CBS’s The Late Late Show months ago, held up a photo of himself posing with his two sons when they were in college, a picture which he said hangs in his bedroom:.

As he held up the framed picture, green text seemed to reflect off the glass and into his camera.

As the apparent text first appeared, the show quickly cut to a shot of host James Corden, then back to Biden holding up the photo.

A slowed-down snippet highlighting this moment racked up hundreds of thousands of views Friday night, quickly eclipsing the view count on the Late Late Show‘s official upload:

Earlier this week, Biden press secretary TJ Ducklo would not answer one way or another whether Biden uses an aid to help him with answers during TV interviews.

“We are not going to eng— Bret, this is straight from the Trump campaign talking points,” Ducklo said during an appearance on Fox News.

He claimed such a question is “trying to distract the...