Ilana Mercer on smashing traditions: Mao's China vs. Biden's America

Core curriculum and Western classical texts have been all but purged from American schools.  In China, the number of “classical texts to be taught in schools has increased from 14 to 72.”

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In 1949, during “the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese to smash anything old.”  À la Antifa, “Gangs of Red Guards swarmed Qufu, Confucius’s hometown, and blew up his tomb.”  Americans have arrived at that point.  They are purging their foundational teachings and obliterating memorials and mementos to their spiritual fathers.  Been there; done that, say the Chinese.

~ Ilana Mercer, "CNN’s Sinophobic Expert Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning to Confucianism; Not Communism," The Unz Review, December 16, 2021