Skull and Bones Goes Woke
January 11th, 2024One more for your heaving Clown World/Dies of Cringe file folder.
Via: The Atlantic:
But there in the tomb, surrounded by oil portraits of former Bonesmen—all white, all chosen by the society’s alumni board—the current members felt overcome not by the achievements of those who had come before them, or by the possibilities that lay ahead, but instead by the organization’s long history of exclusion. So the students did what they felt had to be done: They pulled the portraits down, and replaced them with homemade signs criticizing the secret society’s record of keeping people of color out of its ranks. “Portraits is a relatively straightforward and easy ask,” one member who participated in the redecoration told me. “The way a space looks can have a large impact on a person’s psyche.”
“The Cultural Revolution sought to eliminate feudal and bourgeois artistic influences, and destroy the ‘four olds’ — customs, cultures, habits, and ideas.”
So Yale is following in the footsteps of Madame Mao, who led the destruction of anything of pre-Mao historical value, paintings, poetry, opera, dances, statues, even tombs.
It was Mao himself who established the self-criticism system, seen in the US in trends such as Critical Race Theory and censorship of speech. Even Climate Change and LGBTQ are forms of self-criticism.
They are all accompanied by signs and slogans telling us how bad we are and what we have to give up to save society and the planet from ourselves. All, in fact, result only in self-destruction and the destruction of society.
American Marxists like to say their predecessors, Lenin, Stalin, Mao et al, made mistakes, didn’t quite get it right, but they themselves will. Yeah, right, as though the same methods won’t yield the same results. Perhaps they want the same results — I’m the exalted ruler, you’re the groveling slaves.