[CLIP] The Dark Parallels of China's Cultural Revolution and Today's America: Survivor Xi Van Fleet

in M China it's very simple from a very early age kindergarten we were taught that uh our parents um are just biological parents the real parents is the party and and and chairman M and so if there's a conflict between choosing your own parents or the party you should always always choose the party and that's basically uh what the the uh the red guards did yeah many of them denounced their parents many of them um reported their parents and ended that up with their parents being executed and here especially today in uh um in school and you are supposed to go to trusted adults not your parents and uh so they did not see party but it is very similar they want to cut um the ties between parents and children why that's the how you control the children you know you're just reminding me you know in the uh gender affirming care ideology um you know that basically this is a so-called standard of care that's being applied uh in for many children in schools where the um counselors are basically they'll think like they'll say things like in front of the kid to the parent you know would you like to have you know a dead child or a living um or a living child if I.E if you don't go along with our approach your your your child will commit suicide the parent becomes sort of the The Outsider absolutely and then and they made it sounds like a it's the government that is the real protector of those children there's no such thing as someone else's child no such thing as someone else's child our nation's children are all our children and that's exactly what happened in China and I'm sure in all our communist countries you know another thing that that's very striking to me is this uh hostility towards honest accounts of history or or you know accurate accounts of History yes that is always something that the Communists do in order to control the children you have to rewrite history and uh um in China the history was totally totally Rewritten and the history that I learned was absolutely fictional and I have even today I still have to detox the oldest junk they put in my mind those who control the present control the past and when you control the past you control the future and so to me is there so many people here in America they don't see what we see why because they don't know the history the history was so whitewashed and in school they were taught the crimes of the Nazi the crimes of slavery few of them know the crime committed in the name of Communism far more people killed were killed under communism but they were taught communism is about a sharing that's rewrite history well you know a testament to that is a whole lot of young people view it as a positive system I mean there's been multiple surveys done on this it's astonishing I think it this is a Chinese expression is putting the powder on the face of communism right absolutely I I was talking to a um a coworker of mine and she said her new daughter in-law call herself a communist I said do you know what that means do you know that means that sounds like someone tell the Jews that um they are Nazi but she said really yeah that is how bad things are that the absolute have no idea why it's because they're taught that way it's almost like you know it's actually the successful people whoever is successful those are the people that are cast by the system or and related ideologies as the oppressor irrespective of whether they're oppressing anybody what do you what do you think that that's that's actually the operating system for Marxism and uh so in China how did they do that they identified those uh rich as the problem as the problem for everything that China was experiencing so the goal is to eliminate the rich so that they can achieve equity and so the rich were those who were successful people and including Ma's own father Ma's father was a prosperous and peasant Rich peasant and he described how his father got rich he did not exp exploit anyone oppress anyone he worked hard and he was smart made a lot of uh uh good uh decisions so in uh communism wealth is the original sin and they are the problem that H they are the reason for everyone else um misery and here same thing we see the same thing happened and so the Chinese were supposedly or the Asians in general according to the skin color we were non white right we were supposedly uh the people of color and not anymore and uh we are now called White adjacent so why only one reason we is too successful so they do not they do do not want people to be successful when you are successful you are independent and you are not easy to control and they like people to be dependent so that they can control them but not only that they want to make this a divisive uh way to set people against each other they really ferment resentment and hatred to those who are successful I think you've said that the term racist essentially means the same thing as counterrevolutionary back in the day yeah yeah yeah it's everything in doing the cultural revolution is um whether you are uh you are wisdom or against them if you were not in line with them exactly you're counterrevolutionary same here sometimes you you you see people being called racist and it's just ridiculous because they're not seeing anything like mass is racism in America it's just replaced by the world racist or the more racist you know that bigot extremist whatever phobia to use that to cast people out and put you in the enemy's camp and then they can denounce you and they can punish you so well this is actually just a really really important point I want to dwell on this for for a moment it's just the idea is there's the correct ideology yeah and you you're supposed to know what that is and really it and it comes from you know apparent ostensibly the people in power and it says this is what it's supposed to be and if you don't agree with it completely basically now you're potentially on this being a counterrevolutionary or any number of these other slanderous terms basically that are used right yes especially an early stage um after the uh um CCP took over power everyone learned it quickly being rich is bad right look rich is bad think like a rich is bad then everyone want to look like proletarian especially those intellectuals because the because the the intellectuals were the next group yes right yeah yeah so to look think act uh like a bis like a you know is bad so everyone want to look like a proletarian and uh um and the same here uh think white is bad act like white is bad if you study hard you act like white right and and you'll be outcasted don't forget to subscribe to our alerts newsletter and you'll never miss an episode