Opinion: The pattern of Twitter mobs and spirit of accusation and humiliation are reminiscent to the Chinese cultural revolution, writes peggynoonannyc
The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a bitter thing, a catastrophe comparable in its societal effects, and similar in its historical feel, to the terrors of Stalin and the French Revolution. No one knows how many died; historians say up to two million.
But what I find myself thinking of these days is the ritual humiliations, the “struggle sessions.” In the mid-1960s Mao Zedong, suspicious of those around him, wary of the moves of erstwhile Soviet allies, damaged by a disastrous famine his policies had caused, surveyed the...
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