Ai Weiwei
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Den tidligere politiske fange og autoritære regimeekspert Ai Weiwei dukkede op på PBS fredag ​​og advarede amerikanerne om, at autoritarisme allerede har invaderet landet.

PBS-vært Margaret Hoover spurgte Weiwei, om han mener, at Donald Trump er autoritær. 'Hvis du er autoritær, skal du have et system, der støtter dig,' svarede Weiwei. 'Du kan ikke bare være en autoritær af dig selv. Men bestemt, i USA, med dagens tilstand, kan du sagtens have en autoritær. På mange måder er du allerede i den autoritære stat. Du ved det bare ikke. '


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Weiwei went on to explain that many aspects of the U.S. today are similar to the Cultural Revolution in China. He mentioned political correctness as an example, calling it "very dangerous."

Xi Van Fleet, a Virginia mom who escaped communism in China, gave a speech at the Loudoun County school board in June in which she compared Critical Race Theory (CRT) to China's Communist Revolution.

"What is going on in our schools and in our country is really a replay of the cultural revolution in China, and I want people to see the similarities and similarities are terrifying. They use the same ideology and same methodology, even the same vocabulary, and reach the same goal," Fleet said.

China's Cultural Revolution occurred between 1966 and 1976 with the explicit goal of punishing supporters of capitalism that Mao Zedong claimed had infiltrated China.