NY Times: Sure Mao killed millions but he made great feminist propaganda
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/26/ny-times-sure-mao-killed-millions-made-great-feminist-propaganda/
The NY Times, the paper that ignored the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin as they were happening, is now looking to provide the same treatment retroactively to Mao Zedong. In its ongoing "Red Century" series, the Times published a piece yesterday arguing that Mao represented a great leap forward for women:
"The Communists did many terrible things," my grandmother always says at the end of her reminiscences. "But they made women's lives much better."
That often-repeated dictum sums up the popular perception of Mao Zedong's legacy regarding women in China. As every Chinese schoolchild learns in history class, the Communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories, liberating them from the oppression of Confucian patriarchy and imperialist threat.
The piece goes on to suggest that, in reality, women were not treated as equals. They didn't get the best jobs and they were expected to be responsible for most of the work in the home as well. But the Communist Chinese did put out plenty of party propaganda presenting an idealized image of equality:
The state rolled out propaganda campaigns aimed at not only enlisting women in the work force but also shaping their self-perception. Posters, textbooks and newspapers propagated images and narratives that, devoid of any particularities of personal experiences, depicted women as men's equal in outlook, value and achievement. For women in the workplace to adhere to this narrowly defined acceptable female image meant to see, understand and speak about their life not as it was, but as what it ought to be according to the party ideal.
All of this feminist propaganda might be fine if it weren't a package deal with a dictatorship that murdered tens of millions of men, women, and children. And that's really an undeniable part of this story that this piece dismisses offhand. ...
So, the Communist apologists at The New York Slimes admit, in REALITY, the Chinese Communists did NOT actually treat women as equals ... however, with a dismissive wave of the libtard hand, they excuse it all with "but, the Chinese Communist propaganda sure was great at making people believe that they were treating women as equals, EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN'T." All of the physical assets and people associated with the The New York Slimes needs to be picked up and immediately transported to Pyongyang. It will be a MUCH better fit for them over there.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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