‘That is what Mao did’: Communism survivor warns against gender ideology
A survivor of Mao Zedong’s China warned last week that the Left’s attack on gender roles is a page out of the dictator’s playbook.
Xi Van Fleet, who grew up during Mao’s bloody Cultural Revolution, spoke on The Megyn Kelly Show about how Mao tried to convince women to behave like men.
“I know dear to your heart is the transgender issue. And people ask me, ‘Did Mao do transgender in China?’” Van Fleet told host Megyn Kelly. “No, he didn’t. He did not have to because he had enough tactics to achieve his goal, but he did attack gender role.”
“And so growing up in China, the girls were all taught that femininity is toxic. It is weak. It is bourgeois. It is not revolutionary. It is something to get rid of. We all aimed to be Iron Girl. And Iron Girl is ‘what men can do, we can do better’ . . . Women and young girls, we think, talk, act, and dress like men and we become kind of like men.”
Transgenderism is ‘more evil than what Mao did’
Van Fleet went on to say that gender ideology in America is even “more evil” than Maoism.
“And that is what Mao did to China. Mao was dealing with a people that never knew freedom and always, always live under tyranny,” the “Mao’s America” author continued. “In America, this is the free people. And so they have to be more sophisticated. And what they’re doing in America, I have to say, it’s more evil than what Mao did, only that Mao killed more people. But this idea of you can transition from one gender to another just by identifying yourself, that is absolutely evil.”
Kelly noted how gender ideology is “very destabilizing for the family unit, for the community, for the school, and that seems to be of some benefit to a Mao-type thinker. Like they’re in favor of that sort of instability in the community.”
Critical Race Theory
Van Fleet also attacked Critical Race Theory, which she said divides citizens into classes Mao-style. Anyone who shared views with the wealthy in Communist China was relegated to a “black class,” much like the Left does to anyone who shows signs of “whiteness.”
“Even if you're black, but if you’re accused of thinking like a white person, you belong to the the black class in Mao’s term. And that is how every Chinese [person] got a[n] identity. This identity is something you pass down to your children and your children's children and you can be born belonging to the black class just because your parents were. And with that, you become the . . . second class citizen.
“Mao used identity politics to divide people and control people and set them against each other, and this is exactly what the Critical Race Theory aims to do. Instead of class, they use race.”
